470 LYC^NID.«. 



into a slight conical protuberance; girt across the wing-cases, near their base, and at the junction of the 

 first and second segments of the abdomen, by a very fine silken thread, as well as attached by the extre- 

 mity of the body. 



This genus consists of a few handsome species, remarkable for their metallic patches of golden green or greenish blue upon a velvety 

 Ijlack ground. Our figure, in Plate LXXIV., represents a male insect. The female has the fore wings above suffused with gi-een 

 scales towards the costa. In both sexes the under sides of the wings are alike ; being black with a crimson patch op[)osite the extremity 

 of the body, and with three rows of golden green spots beyond the middle of the hind wings. Tiic other species differ in the number 

 and j)osition of the spots. The known species are natives of the West Indian Islands, and adjacent parts of the American continent. 

 The very gradually formed club of the short and rather robust antennte, and the horizontally porrected palpi will serve to distinguish 

 this genus from the following. 



EUMiEUS. 



1. EuM. Debora. II Eumenia Toxea Godart, Ene. M. ix. p. 826. ; Lucas, Hist. 



Eumenia Debora Geyer-Hiihner, Samml. exot. iScAm. Band '! n. Lep. ex. pi. 79. f- 1. 



III. pi. — . ' Honduras. B. M. 

 Eumenia Childrense G, R. Gray in Griff. An. K. Ins. ii. 



t. 112. p. 6'77. 

 Mexico. B. M. ,1 3. Eum. Axii.A. 



ElIM. MiNVAS. 



Rustirus ad. Minyas Hiibner, Samml. crot. Schm, Band i. 

 pi. — . ; Boisdnval, Sji. yen. Lcp. i. t. 21. f. G. 



Eumenia Atala Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba, decad. i. (1832); 



Guerin, Icon. S. An. Insectes, texte p. 489. ; Doubt. 



Westw. ^v Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 74. f. 1. male. 

 Eumenia Toxea Guer, op. cit. pi. 80. f. 3. 3 a. 

 Cuba. B. M. 



Genus II. EPITOLA. 



Epitola Boisduval MS. 



i>uDY moderately robust ; wings of the males of a splendid blue colour above, bronzy-coloured beneath. 

 Head as wide as the thorax, finely hairy. 



Eyes large, naked. 



Labial Palpi slender, much curved at the base, erect ; the tip elevated rather higher than the top of the head, 

 but extending only to a sliort distance in front of the face, clothed beneath with fine scaly liairs. Terminal 

 johit slender, about one third of the length of tlie preceding joint. 



Antennw rather short, slender, terminated by a long, gradually formed, slender club ; the joints very short, those 

 of the club still shorter. 



Fore Wings elongate, falcate at the tip. The costal margin much arched; apical angle truncate. Apical margin 

 deeply emarginate. Costal vein not extending beyond the middle of the costa: postcostal emitting two 

 branches before the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell, which extends considerably beyond ; the postcostal 

 vein is slightly angulatcd just beyond the second branch, and emits two short branches near the tip of the 

 wing. Upper disco-cellular vein of considerable length, oblique: middle disco cellular rather shorter than the 

 upper, less oblique : lower disco-cellular very slender, transverse, about equal in length to the upper one ; 

 uniting with the third branch of the median vein at a moderate distance from its origin, closing the discoidal 

 cell at a short distance before the middle of the Aving. 



Uind Wings subovate, entire, with the precostal vein obsolete. Postcostal vein arising near the body, branching at 

 a moderate distance from the base. The upper and lower disco-cellular veins slender, oblique, forming a slight 

 arch ; the upper arising at a moderate distance beyond the base of the branch of the postcostal, and the lower 

 one uniting with the third branch of the median vein rather beyond the middle of the distance between the 

 first and second branches. 



Fore Legs of the male slender, scaly. Tibia longer than the femur. Tarsus about two thirds of the length of 

 the tibia, more slender, finely spined beneath, formed of a lung single joint. 



