NYMPHALIN.E. - ^n 



joint long, rather thick, more or less hairy above and on inner side, 

 terminal joint very short, conical ; antennce long or rather long, with a 

 very gradually formed, elongate, sub-cylindrical club. Thorax mode- 

 rately robust, clothed above with close short down (anteriorly and 

 posteriorly with moderately- long hair), beneath with short hair. Fore- 

 loings usually elongate apically, but often truncate ; costa moderately 

 or rather strongly arched ; apex more or less pronounced, sometimes 

 rather acuminate ; hind-margin slightly sinuated, usually more or less 

 sub-angulated below apex, excavated about middle, and prominent 

 again above posterior angle ; inner margin nearly straight ; costal 

 nervure terminating not far beyond middle ; first subcostal nervule ori- 

 ginating at some distance before extremity of discoidal cell, — second a 

 little before, just at, or a very little beyond, extremity of cell, — third 

 at a long distance beyond cell and terminating at apex, — fourth very 

 short, originating not far before apex and terminating a little below it ; 

 disco-cellular nervules as in Hama7iumida, but less oblique.-^ Hind- 

 wings large, usually more or less prolonged inferiorly, especially in ^ 

 (where anal angle itself is often produced into a blunt point) ; costa 

 almost straight beyond strong basal convexity ; hind-margin more 

 sinuated than in fore-wing, sometimes with prominence at extremity of 

 second subcostal nervule ; inner margins meeting to form a deep, broad 

 groove to beyond middle, and thence separated ; costal nervure extend- 

 ing to apex ; upper disco-cellular nervule united to second subcostal 

 not far from latter's origin, and forming little more than a footstalk 

 for radial nervule ; lower one usually wanting entirely, — when present, 

 much attenuated ; internal nervure extending to about or considerably 

 beyond middle. Fore-legs of ^ very small and slender, femur densely 

 hairy beneath, tibia and tarsus rather densely fringed with hairs on 

 .each side, less hairy superiorly ; of ^ considerably larger and thicker, 

 femur thinly hairy beneath ; tibia three-fourths as long as femur, 

 smooth, scaly ; tarsus about half as long as tibia, indistinctly articulate, 

 scaly, with a few spines beneath at tip. Middle and hind legs thick, 

 rather short, scaly ; tibiae with short spines beneath and moderately- 

 long terminal spurs ; tarsi rather strongly spinose beneath. 



Abdomen short ; compressed in $. 



Harma is nearly related to Aterica, Boisd., differing chiefly in its 

 shorter antennee ; thicker, less ascendant, more hairy, and more sepa- 

 rated palpi ; more hairy fore-legs in $ ; shorter middle and hind legs ; 

 and (usually) longer, sub-angulated fore-wings, and anal-angular pro- 

 jection in hind-wings. These characters, with the exception of shorter 

 antennae and the greater hairiness of the palpi, also serve to distinguish 

 it from Hamanumida ; and it further differs from the latter in its 

 longer antennal club, not blunt at its extremity ; more hairy breast ; 



^ Westwood [loc. cit.) describes the South-African H. Eupithes {— i Alcimeda) as having 

 the discoidal cell open in all the wings ; but I find the lower disco-cellular nervule distinct, 

 though very slender, in the fore-wings. 



