PANARA. AMARYNTHIS. 



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Precostal oblique, directed outwards obliquely. Postcostal arising much nearer the base of the wing than tlie 

 precostal, ratlier curved near the base, branching at a moderate distance from the base. The upper disco- 

 cellular arising at a very short distance beyond the branch, transverse, very slender, as well as the lower disco- 

 cellular, which is in the same line as the former, closing the cell transversely, and uniting witii the thii-d 

 branch of the median vein close beyond its origin. 



Fore Legs of the male very short, slender, and densely hairy. 



Four Hind Legs slender, scaly. Femora finely hairy beneath. Tibiaj and tarsi finely sjiined beneath. Claws 

 and their appendages very minute. 

 Abdomen robust, elongate-conical. 



In addition to the cliaracter derived from tlic colouring of the insects of this genus (the types of which are black, the under side 

 having a brilliant purple gloss, especially along the apical margin, the fore wings, and in P. larbas the hind ones also, traversed by an 

 orange fascia,) they are distinguished from the immediately preceding and following genera by the postcostal vein of the fore wings 

 having only the tirst branch emitted before the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell, the second and third being at equal distances 

 apart beyond it, and the cell of the hind wings being closed transversely by the upper and lower disco-cellular veins. 



P. Satnius (if I am correct in the identification oF Dalnian's insect) scarcely belongs to the genus, having sliorter and more rounded 

 wings, with the postcostal vein of the fore wings emitting its sec(md as well as first branch before the anterior extremity of the cell. 

 It agrees with the other species, however, in its colours and markings. 



PANARA. 



I. Pan. Iaiibas. 



Papilio larbas Druri/, III. iii. pi. 8. f. 2. ; E. Doubleihiy, 



Lift Lip. Ilril. Mus. pt. 2. p. 8. (Panara I.). 

 Hfsperia Perclitus Fuliriciiis, Ent. Sy.st. in. pt. 1. p. ^9.3. 

 n. 222. ; Godnrt, Enc. M. ix. p. r>i)0. n. 127. (Erycina 

 P.); Hiihner, Snnwil. e.rol. Sctim. Hand ii. pi. — ., 

 Ferz. bek. Sclim. 22. ii. I(i2. (Kryciiia P.). 

 Guiana, Brazil. B. M. 



2. Pan. Barsacus. 



Panara Barsacus Westw. MS. n. 

 Hmiits. Gen. B. Lep. pi. 72. /. 

 Banks of the river Amazon. 



sp.* 

 10. 



DohIiI. Westw. elf 

 Mus. Saunders. 



S. Pan. ? Satnius. 



Pujiilio Satnius Dahnon, Aiml. Ent. p. 4.'). ; K. DouhUdny, 

 List Lep. lirit. Mus. pt. 2. p. 8. (Panara S.). 

 Brazil. B. M. 



Genus XXIII. AMARYNTHIS. 



Amarvntiti.s Iliilmer, E. Douhhday. 

 Erycina p. Gnd'. 



Body moderately robust. Butterflies of small size, with the ground colour of the wings black, varied with red and 



orange marks, and occasionally with white dots. 

 lliiAD small, clothed with fine liairs, and slightly tufted on the crown. 

 Eyes prominent, naked. 

 Antennw slender, about half the length of the fore wings ; articulations indistinct ; terminated by an elongated, 



rather slender, gradually formed, and slightly incurved club. 

 Labial Faljii small, compressed, much curved at tiie base, the tip not elevated more than one fourth of the height 

 of the eye, rather thickly clothed beneath with divergent hairs ; tip gradually acuminated, not extending so 

 far as the hairs of the face. 

 Thorax rather robust, finely hairy. 



* P. alis elongatis supra fusco-nigris, antirarum di.sco nipricanti, fascia ol)lii|ua recta fulva e medio costa? ad angulum pofticum exteiisa (margincs non 



attingente), posticaium incisuris versus anguluni an.-ilcin albo paniin untalis ; alis infra concoloribns, diniidio e.xterno omnimn pviipiiiio iiitidi.s. Exp. alar, 

 antic, nnc. Ii. 



A'oventhrr 1. 1851. ^ ^ 



