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their beiug marked with numerous gokleu patches. Tliis species lias been confouuded by Cramer and Godart witli another species 

 which is destitute of these golden markings, regarding the latter as the female. I have now before me, however, both sexes of the 

 species without the golden spots, and a female of E. Ovidius with them. There are various undescribed species in our collections, in 

 addition to those mentioned below. 



EMESIS. 



1. E.MESis Ovidius. 



Emesis Ovidius Fahricius, Syst. Glossiitornm. 



Hesperia Ovidius Fabricitis, Ent. Sy.tt. iii. pt. 1. p. 320. 

 n. 212. (male) ; Joiici, Icon. vi. pi. .'!y. f. 4. ; Donovan, 

 Ins. Iiiilin, pi. 4(). f. 7. ; Godart, Enc. 31. ix. p. 571. 

 n. 35. (Erycina Ov.) ; Doubl. Wcstw. S; Ilewils. Gen. 



D. L. pi. 72. f. 6. 



Papilio Fatiina Cramer, Pap. pi. 271- A. B. (male) ; 



E. Doubkday, List Lep. Brit. Mas. pt. 2. p. Q. (Emesis 

 F.). 



Polystichtis C'erea Hiibner, Verz. bclc. Schm. p. 18. n. I09. 

 excl. syn. P. C'snei (errore Cerei) Linn. 

 West Indies, Para. B. M. 



2. Emesis Arminrs. 



Papilio Arminius Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 155. 



n. 47s. ; .Jones, Iron. vi. pi. 32. f. 4. ; Godart, Enc. M. 



IX. p. 571. 11. 34. (Erycina Arm.) ; E. Duuhleday, List 



Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. 2. p. 9. (Emesis Arm.). 

 Erycina 0|.s Latreil/e in Hionhohlt, Olis. Zool. S; Anat. ii. 



p. 89. pi. 27. f. 3, 4. (male). 

 Papilio Mandana Cramer, Pap. pi. 271. f. E. K. ? 

 Polystichtis Mandane Hiibner, Vera. bek. Schm. p. IS. n. 



111. 

 Brazil, Venezuela. B. M. 



3. Emesis Fatimell.a. 



Fatimella Westw. MS. 



Pap. Fatima Cramer, Puji. pi. 271. f. C D. 

 Brazil, Amazon. B. M. 



4. Emesis Lucinda. 



Papilio Lucindus Fabricius, Manl. Ins. ii. p. 30. n. 3I(}., 

 Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 154. n. 47(>. ; .lones, Icones, vi. 

 t. 32. f. 3. ; Cramer, Pap. pi. 1 . f. F.. F. ; Godart, Enc. 

 M. IX. p. 571. n. 32.; E. Doubleday, List Lep. Brit. 

 Mus. pt. 2. p. 9. (Emesis L.) ; Hiibner, Verz. bek. 

 Sclim. p. 18. n. 112. (Polystichtis L.). 

 Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela. B. M. 



5. Emesis Dyndima. 



Papilio Dyndima Cramer, Pup. pi. 271. f. G. H. ; Godart, 



Enc. M. IX. p. 407. and 571. n. 33. (Erycina D.). 

 Aphacitis D. Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schm. p. I9. n. 130. 

 (An Lucinda; fern. ?) 

 Surinam. 



6'. Emesis Perg.ka. 



Gonopteris Perguea Hiibner, Zutrnge, e.xot. Sclim. f. 747, 

 748. 

 Brazil. 



7. Emesis Gnosis. 



Nymula Gnosis Boisdnval, .Sp. yen. Lep. pi. 20. f. 4. 

 Cayenne. 



8. Emesis monostioma. 



Emesis nK)nostij;ma Erichsun in Schomburyh, Reise n. 

 Guiana, ,3 Th. 

 Guiana. 



Genus XXVI. NYMPHIDIUM. 



Nymphidium Fabricius {Sy.st. Glos.s.), E. Douhlcdatj, but not of Boisdural. 



Desmozona Boisduval, Blanchanl. 



Peplea, Synargis p., Thisbe p., and Adelpha p., [Jiihne/: 



Emesis p. and Tyanitis E. Doubleday. 



Hypophylla Boisduval. 



P>ODY long, slender : wings large, delicate in texture, generally marked with a large white patch occupying the greater 



part of the hind wings and portion of the disc of the fore ones. 

 Head small, widest in the males, slightly tufted in the middle below the antennas. 

 Eyes large, lateral, naked. 



Labial Palpi long, slender, those of the females being generally considerably longer than those of the males, 

 porrected obliquely, elevated to the level of the top (or nearly so) of the eyes, and extending considerably in 

 front of the face, compressed, scaly ; the middle joint long, and of equal width throughout ; the terminal joint 

 very slender, naked, tilifonn, varying in length according to the sex, licing in the females nearly linlf tlie 

 length of the second joint, but shorter in the males. 

 Antenna; varying in length ; in the males about three fifths, but in the females not much more than half, of tlie 

 length of the fore wings, slender ; the joints scarcely distinct ; and the club very slender. 

 Thorax robust, woolly. 



Fore Wings large ; those of the males elongate, subtriangular, those of tlie females triangularly subovate. Costal 

 margin straight, or but little convex, except at the tij), which is more rounded in the males than in the 



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