NYMPHALIN^. (Group NTMPBAZINA.) 83 



discocellular slender and obliquely recurved ; middle median veinlet from some 

 considerable distance before lower end of cell, lower median at fully half before 

 the end. Eindwing short, triangular ; exterior margin very obliquely convex, 

 prominently scalloped, with a prominent projecting broadly-obtuse caudate angle at 

 end of upper median, and a less similar angle at end of lower median ; precostal 

 vein straight ; cell closed by a slender lower discocellular veinlet. Wings beneath 

 with numerous projecting rigid bristly hairs, some of which project forward from 

 base of costa on the forewing. Body robust ; palpi somewhat compressed laterally, 

 clothed throughout with short erect hair-like scales, interspersed with long erect 

 bristly hairs; antenna3 with a stout cylindrical club ; fore tibiiB and tarsi, in the male, 

 rather thickly but laxly clothed with longish fine silky hairs interspersed with much 

 longer and more bristly hairs ; femora beneath with longish fine silky hairs ; fore tibi^ 

 and tarsi, in the female, less thickly clothed with fine longish hairs, shortest and. 

 decreasing to near tip of tarsi, apical joints minutely spined. Eyes hairy. 



Laeva. — Cylindrical, slightly hairy. Head subquadrate, vertex sharply indented 

 in front, slightly hairy, front and cheeks with several small pointed tubercles. 

 Third to last segment armed with a dorsal row of short spines and three lateral rows 

 of long rigid branched-spines. 



Pupa. — Stout. Head-piece cleft and pointed ; thorax with a rounded posterior 

 prominence; abdominal segments with a dorsal row of points and a lateral row of 

 lesser tubercular points. 



Type. — E. Polychloros. 



EUGONIA XANTHOMELAS (Plate 316, fig. 2, 2a, ,? ? ). 



Papilio Xanihomelas, Denis et Scliiefftrmuller, Wien. Verz. p. 176 (1776). Esper, Schmett. i. pt. 2, 



pi. 63, fig. 4 (1780). Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. i. fig. 85, 86 (1793). Ochsenheimer, Sclimett. Eur. 



i. p. 117 (1807). 

 Vanessa, Xantliomelas, Godart, Enc. Me'th. i.x. p. 820 (1823). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. 



p. 137 (1857) ; P. Z. S. 1882, p. 240. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 235, pi. 18, fig. 73, 



c? (1886). Leech, Butt. China, etc., i. p. 260 (1893). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside rich fulvous. Forewing with the costal 

 edge more or less striated with olivescent-ochreous and black ; two black spots 

 superposed obliquely outward in middle of the cell, which are often more or less 

 joined together and sometimes forming a single quadrate spot; a large quadrate 

 black patch from the costa at end of the cell, then a pale yellow diS'used costal 

 patch, another black patch outwardly decreasing in width to or below the lower 

 radial, and then a pale yellow more or less narrow subcostal macular streak ; within 

 the disc are two superposed somewhat quadrate black spots between the upper and 



