1883.] MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. 253 



1. A Monograph of Limnaina and. Euplceina, two Groups 

 of Diurnal Lepicloptera belonging to the Subfamily 

 Euploeinte; with Descriptions of new Genera and Species. 

 By F. Moore, F.Z.S., A.L.S., &c. 



Part II. Euplceina. 



(Plates XXIX.-XXXII.) 



Group Euplceina. 



Males, in most genera, possessed with either one or two glandular 

 streaks or scent-producing organs on the fore wing, or with such aa 

 organ absent or present on the fore wing, and also a glandular patch 

 on the costal border of the hind wing. No precostal cell on hind 

 wing. Abdomen furnished with odoriferous anal tufts. Larva SH^ooth, 

 with four pairs of subdorsal long slender fleshy processes. 



A. No " sexual marJc " or scent-producing ore/an on fore ivimj 

 (see Table, pp. 254, 255). 



Genus Hamadryas. 



Hamadryas\ Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Lcp. p. 91 (1832); 

 Doubleday & Hewits. D. Lep. p. 134. 



Aeria (part.), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schniett, p. 9. 



Wings small : fore wing elongated ; costa much arched, apex con- 

 vex ; exterior margin short, slightly oblique and convex ; posterior 

 margin long, recurved ; cell long, extending two thirds the wing ; 

 first subcostal at one third before end of the cell, second from near 

 the end, third trifid ; upper discocellular bent inward close to the 

 subcostal, and outward before the middle, emitting a short spur 

 within the cell from lower angle, lower discocellular curved obliquely 

 outward ; upper radial from angb near subcostal, lower from below 

 the angle of the discocellulars ; upper median at one fifth, lower at 

 before end of the cell ; submedian much recurved, with a short 

 slender veinlet emitted from below near the base. Hind wing very 

 short, oval ; costa slightly arched at base ; first subcostal at one 

 seventh before end of the cell; upper discocellular shortest, outwardly 

 curved, lower outwardly recurved, radial from their angle ; upper 

 median at one fourth, lower at one half before end of the cell ; cell 

 broad, lengthened triangular ; submedian and internal veins recurved. 

 Legs very long, slender, fore tarsi of female tumid and acutely 

 spilled at apex ; palpi ascending, laxly scaly ; antennae long, gra- 

 dually thickening to a lengthened club. 



Type ff. zoilus. 



' Previously used by Hiibner (Tentamen, i., 1806). 

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