OGYRIS. ANOPS. 47?, 



Genus V. ANOPS. 



Anops Boisduval. 

 Phjedra Ilorsfield. 



Body moderately robust: wings large, under side destitute of ocelli, and of a silky white colour; with slightly 



indicated, slender, oblique bars. 

 PIead short, broad, hairy, with a sliort transverse tuft at the base of the antenna;. 



Eyes finely hirsute. 



Antenna; short, cylindrical, gradually thickened so as to form a long club (scarcely more than twice the thickness 

 of the basal portion), obtuse at the tip, not ringed witli white. 



Labial Palpi obliquely ])orrectcd, moderately elongated, longer in tlie female than in the male ; tlie tip elevated 

 higher than the top of the eyes, and extending in front to about the length of the head ; clothed with very fine 

 closely adpressed scales. Terminal joint slender, about half the length of the preceding joint in the female, 

 sliorter in the male, nearly horizontal. 

 Thokax moderate-sized ; tippets large. 



Fore Wings oblong, tlie tip more acute in the males. Costal margin strongly arched at tlie base. Postcostal 

 vein emitting three branches ; the first and second considerably before the anterior extremity of the discoidal 

 cell, the postcostal being slightly angulated at about the same distance beyond the second branch as exists 

 between the fu'st and second branches ; the third branch arising at more than half the distance from the cell 

 and the tip of the wing. Upper disco-cellular arising at the slight angulation of tlie postcostal vein, short, 

 oblique: middle and lower disco-cellular veins transverse, very slender; the lower one uniting witli the third 

 brancli of the median vein at about the same distance from its origin as exists between the first and second 

 branches. 



Hind Wings rounded, obtuse, with the anal angle more acute in the male. Costal vein extending to the outer 

 angle of the wing. Postcostal vein arising near the body, branching at a moderate distance from the base. 

 The upper and lower disco-cellular veins (closing the discoidal cell) very slender, transverse, and of equal 

 length. Precostal vein obsolete. 



Legs very short, thick, and densely clothed with party-coloured scales. 



Fore T^egs of the male rather longer and slenderer than those of the female. Tarsus consisting of a single 

 elongate compressed joint, obtuse at the tip, with several fine spines beneath, and terminated by a single bent 

 hook. Fore Legs of the female nearly as long and thick as the tibia, five-jointed ; the first joint nearly as long 

 as the rest conjoined; the three following vei'y short ; the fifth longer, oval ; joints armed beneath with small 

 spines. Ungues and pulvillus small. 



Fov,r Hind Legs very scaly. Tibial spurs short, but distinct. Middle femur elongated, with a small lobe on the 

 tinder side beneath. Tibia with a corresponding incision. Tarsi with the basal joint elongate-ovate, occupying 

 half the length of the tarsus ; terminal joint obliquely truncate, broad. Ungues small, acute. Pulvillus broad, 

 but short. Paronychia minute. 

 Abdomen small. 



This interesting genus was first characterised (but with some omissions of importance) by Dr. Ilorsfield, who applied to it the generic 

 name of PJi^dra, being that of the typical species which he altered to Terricola. Dr. Boisduval, rejecting this change as contrary to 

 the canons of nomenclature, gave to the genus the name adopted above. The hirsute eyes, short, very gradually but slightly clavate 

 antennre, elongated palpi of the female, the arrangement of the wing-veins, and the formation of the fore tarsi are the chief structural 

 characters of the genus ; whilst the peculiar style of colouring of the wings (which are quite entire, and destitute of tails), and tlie absence 

 of all traces of ocelli, will at once distinguish these insects from the other genera of the present family. The males have tiie ground 

 colour of the wings on the upper side of a fiery copper hue, whilst in the females they arc obscure white. 



The species are natives of the East. They are either more numerous than has been supposed, or different individuals of both sexes 

 are subject to considerable variation in the outline of the wings. 



ANOPS. 



1. Anops Pu.i;nBus. 



(Male) Papilio Pha-drus Fnhriciun, Mmit. Ins. ii. p. 79- ; 



Boisduval, Sp. gen. Lip. i. t. 33. f. 1. ; Gudart, Enc. 



M. IX. p. 6'!.'}. i 9. Anops inshlaius. 



C'andalides Phacdius Hiilmer, Ve.rx. Mc. Sriini. n. 720., 



Zutrayc, f. 2(i3, 2fi4. 

 Phaedra terricola Ilorsfield, Cut. Lep. p. 124. 

 Papilio Ciiiyra Cramer, Pap. f. 238. f. C. 

 (Female) Papilio Thetys Drury, III. t. <). f. 3, i. ; Cramer, 



pi. 238. f. D. 

 Papilio iEsopus Fahricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 79. 



Curetis .■Esopus Iliihner, Verx. n. 1070. 

 India. B. M. 



Plix'dra insularis llarxfield. Cat. Leji E. I. C. p. 125. 



3. Anops Buns. 



Anops Bulls Bo'isd. MS. ; Douhl. Westw. S, IlewHs. Gen. 

 D. Lep. pi. 'iCi. f. .5. (male). 

 Upper India. B. M. 



