LEPIDOPTERA. 183 
Godart has separated from them, by the generic name of 
PAvonlia, 
Those species in which the central cell of the inferior wings is 
closed, and where the most internal nerve of the superior is curved 
into an S instead of being straight or but slightly arcuated. A spe- 
cies peculiar to the East Indies, in which the anal angle of the infe- 
rior wings is extended in the manner of a tail, the P. phidippus, is 
the type of the genus Amaruusia of Fabricius. All the others are 
from the western continent. The edge of the second joint of the 
inferior Palpi in Pavonia, Morpho, and the other preceding sub- 
genera is tolerably wide; these palpi are not strongly compressed, 
as is the case in Satyrus, a subgenus very analogous to the two pre- 
ceding ones. 
In the following subgenera the discoidal cell of the inferior wings 
is also closed posteriorly. 
Brasso.is, Fab. 
Where the antenne are abruptly terminated by a thickened, obco- 
nical club, and the inferior palpi are short and do not extend be- 
yond the clypeus. Near the inner margin of the inferior wings of 
the males is a longitudinal fissure covered with hairs(1). 
Eumentia, Godart. 
Where the inferior palpi are longer, and where the antenne, at a 
short distance from their origin, become gradually thicker, and 
form an extremely elongated club(2). The 
Eurysta, Illig. 
Approaches Brassolis in the shortness of the inferior palpi; but 
they are proportionally thicker, and the club of the antennz is fusi- 
form, elongated, and slightly curved(3). 
(1) See Encyc. Méthod., article Papillon, genus Brassolide. 
(2) Encyc. Méthod., Insect., IX, 826. The only specimens in the possession of 
Godart, had lost their antenne. M. Poe has sent me some that are perfectly en- 
tire, captured by him in Havana. 
(3) See Encyc. Méthod., same article. 
