NYMPH ALIN^. {Gmnp NrupsALiif a.) 83 



projecting caudate point at end of upper median ; precostal vein bent inward ; cell 

 closed by a slender lower discocellular veinlet. Both wings beneath with very 

 numerous long fine rigid bristly hairs projecting from between the scales, some of 

 the hairs on the forewing being projected forward from front of the base of the 

 costa. Body very robust, thorax densely woolly above and thickly clothed beneath 

 with long fine rigid hairs ; palpi porrect, slender, projecting half beyond the front, 

 laxly clothed with fine long rigid hairs ; fore tibite and tarsi of the male sparsely 

 clothed with long fine bristly hairs, femora with shorter and more delicate hairs 

 beneath ; fore tibiae and tarsi of the female more sparsely clothed with long fine 

 bristly hairs, tarsal joints apical and minutely spurred at sides beneath ; antenna3 

 with a lengthened cylindrical club ; eyes hairy. 



Larva. — Head subquadrate in front, sides rounded, almost flat, vertex indented 

 in the middle, numerously covered with short conical tubercles, the smallest emitting 

 each a short hair. Body cylindrical, very minutely warted and hairy ; armed with 

 a dorsal and five lateral rows of long minutely-branched spines. 



PgPA. — Stout. Thorax dorsally angled and with a larger hindward projected 

 pointed process ; abdominal segments with a dorsal and a lateral row of broad 

 tubercular points ; wing cases somewhat large; head-piece widely cleft and pointed. 



Type. — B. Antiopa. 



EUVANESSA ANTIOPA (Plate 316, fig. 1, la, ^). 



Papilio Antiopa, Liunaeus, Syst. Nat. x. ed. p. 476 (1758) ; id. xii. ed. p. 776 (1767). Esper, Schmett. 



i. pt. i. pi. 12, fig. 2 (1777); id. pi. 29, f. 2 (1778). Hubner, Eur. Schmett. i. fig. 79, 80 (1793). 



Scudder, Sy.st. Rev. Amer. Butt. pp. 11—16 (1872). 

 Vanessa Antiopa, Godart, Euc. Meth. ix. p. 308 (1819). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 136 



(1857). Elvves, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 898. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 232 (1886). 



Leech, Butt, of China, etc., i. p. 256 (1893). Kirby, Allen's Nat. Hist. Butt. i. p. 88 (1894). 

 Eugonia Antiopa, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 37 (1816). 

 Scudderia Antiopa, Grote, Canadian Ent, v. p. 144 (1873). 

 Nymphalis Antiopa, Kirby, Catal. D. Lep. Suppl. p. 732 (1877). 

 Euvanesea Antiopa, Scudder, Butt. E. U. S. i. p. 397 (1889). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside. Both wings rich dark purpurescent- 



Genus Nymphalis,* Linuajus, S. N. x. ed. p. 472 (1758). id. xii. ed. i. 2, p. 769 (1767). 

 Esper, Schmett. p. 87 (1777). Barbut, Gen. lus. Linne, pp. 162, 172 (1781). Cuirier, Tabl. 

 Elem. H. N. p. 589 (1798). Kirby, Sya. Catal. D. Lep. App. p. 648 (1871) ; id. Suppl. p. 732 

 (1877). Moore, Lep. ludica, ii. p. 226 (1895). Syn. Hamadryas, Hubner, Tent. i. (1806). 

 Inachis, Hubn. Verz. p. 37 (1816). Vanessa, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 48 (1880).— Type 

 Nymphalis lo, Linn. 



* We refer the origin and authorship of this genus to Linnaeus. See Historical Note (Lep. Indica, 

 ii. p. 226) on its restriction to the typical species, as here assigned. 



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