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LYCiENID.E. 



chai-acteristic particulars with the terminal species given above as belonging to the genus Lycana. The type, L. limbaria, is a native 

 of Australasia ; and I have found it necessary to add to the genus the Ceyhmcse insect represented in our Plate LXXVI. f. 5., placed 

 by E. Doublcday (List. Lcp. Brit. Mas. ii. 57.) in the genus Gerydus (No. 2809. Miletus Hillin.), but which entirely disagrees with the 

 typical Gerydi, whilst it agrees in all its more material characters with Lucia limbaria, the antennre being very short, with the club 

 gradually formed, and with the joints short, and not ringed with white, the eyes naked, the legs of the ordinary form, and the post- 

 costal vein of the fore wings with only three branches, the first free. On the under side the wings of this species are dirty whitish 

 coloured, with a number of very slender equidistant irregular undulating brown lines, without ocelli ; and the discoidal cell of the fore 

 wings with a small brown dot near the base, and another oval and transverse in the middle. 



LUCIA. 



1. L. LIMBARIA Swuinson, Zool. III. 2(1 ser. t. 135. 



Hesperia Lucamis Fahrkius, ante, p. iCil. n. 13. 

 Australasia. B. M. 



2. L. Epius Westwnod MS. ; DoiM. Westw. S)- Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. 

 pi. 7'). f. 5. (Gerydus Ep.) 

 Ceylon. B. M, 



Genus XVII. MILETUS. 



Miletus Huhner ( Yerz"). 



Symetha Uorftfield. 



Gerydus Boisduval, E. Doublcday. 



Body long, slender. Wings long ; fore ones entire, hind ones generally more or less angulated in the middle of the 



hind margin ; under side Avith irregular obscure undulating markings. 

 Head small, clothed -with fine short hairs. 



Eyes naked. 



Labial Palpi considerably elongated, compressed, narrow, scaly ; terminal joint long, more slender, obliquely or 

 vertically porrected. 



Antenna; long, slender ; joints short, not ringed with white ; terminating in a long, slender, and very gradually 

 formed club, not more than half as thick again as the basal portion ; tip curved outwardly. 



Eoi'e Wi7igs elongate-ovate. Costal margin much arched. Apical margin convex, entire. Postcostal vein with 

 three branches ; the first and second arising before the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell, and the third 

 half-way between the cell and the tip of the wing. Upper disco-cellular vein wanting: middle one very 

 slender, varying in its position ; arising in M. Symethus close beyond the second branch of the postcostal 

 vein, whilst in M. Zymna it arises at some distance beyond it, simultaneously with the upper discoidal vein. 



Ili7id Wings ovate, more or less slightly scalloped in the hinder margin towards the anal margin ; the middle of 

 the hinder margin being more or less evidently angulated, especially in the female. 



Legs rather short, slender, S(;aly, compressed. The tarsi in aU the feet with the basal joint remarkably elongated, 

 widened, and quite compressed ; the tarsus in the fore legs of the male being exarticulatc, and as long as the 

 femur and til^ia united : second, third, and fourth joints in the four hind legs very short, terminal joint small, 

 subovate, notched at its obliquely truncated extremity, with extremely minute ungues. 

 Abdomen elongated. 



The remarkable structure of the feet of the type of this genus has not been observed in any other Icpidopterous insect, whilst 

 the elongated subovate form of the wings, and the plain style of their colouring, give them an ai)pcarancu very dissimilar from 

 that of the majority of the species of the present family. With the exception of the veining of the wings, the characters of the genus 

 are carefully represented in Dr. Horsficld's Descriptive Cutuhyue ; no description of it, however, appears amongst the species 

 composing the Vermiform Stirps in the list of that work, and in the list of genera it is given as an aberrant one. The arrangement of 

 the veins of the wings entirely agrees, however, with that of the typical Lycajnida;, and the markings of the under side bear a certain 

 resemblance to those of the Lucias and some of the more aberrant Lycrena;. The type is a native of India and Java. The tropical 

 African insect represented in our Plate LXXVI. f. 7. under the name of Pentila Zymna must also be referred to the present genus, 

 agreeing with the type in the majority of its characters ; its legs are, however, still more slender, and the basal joint of the tarsi, 

 although greatly elongated, is not so Ijroad as in M. Symethus. The under side of the wings is of a pale brownish buff colour, the hinder 

 part of the disc of the fore wings white, and the hind wings marked with a number of very slender, scarcely distinct, undulating, 

 whitish striga;. Papilio Polycletus of Cramer, pi. 159. f. F. G., seems to approach very close to the jn'esent genus. 



