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Psyche 
[June-September 
Medium-sized, lightly built butterflies. Head small; eyes hemi¬ 
spherical, prominent; labial palpi elongate, curved upwards and 
densely scaled, with first and third segments about 1/4 to 1/3 the 
length of the second (Reuter, 1896, fully describes the palpi); anten¬ 
nae slender, slightly shorter than the body in length, with slightly 
flattened, pointed, nine-segmented club; thorax strong, thinly 
scaled; forewing slightly angled apically, anterior margin curved at 
base, apex slightly truncate, outer margin sinuate, inner margin 
straight, Sc-R system variable among the species (Figure 2; Double¬ 
day, 1849; Schatz, [1887]; Godman and Salvin, 1882), costal cell 
open; hindwing somewhat quadrate, longer than wide, produced 
distally into a slight tail at vein M3, veins Rs, M 1 and M2 diverging 
nearly from the same point, costal cell open; prothoracic legs of 
male thin, tibia longer than the femur, a single tarsomere half the 
length of the tibia, clothed in fine white setae; prothoracic legs of 
female thicker than those of the male, tibia shorter than the femur, 
five tarsomeres, together nearly equalling the tibia in length, each 
tarsomere bearing stout spines, especially the apical one; meso- and 
metathoracic legs long, femora shorter than tibiae, tibiae and four 
basal tarsomeres spiny, claws moderately curved; abdomen equal in 
length to head and thorax combined; male genitalia (Figure 3) with 
a bifid, curved uncus and simple valves. Chromosome number , 
n=31 (A. amathea, A.fatima and A. jatrophae\ Maeki and Reming¬ 
ton, 1961; Wesley and Emmel, 1975). 
Scudder (1893) suggests that the generic name is derived from the 
Greek for “incongruous; in allusion to its great difference in mark¬ 
ing from its fellows.” Glaser (1887) states that Anartia is a “prince of 
the caste of the children of the sun” (Indian mythology). The only 
common name used for the genus as a whole is “the American 
Peacocks” (Brown and Heineman, 1972). 
Anartia amathea and A. fatima 
Anartia amathea (Linnaeus) 
amathea (Linnaeus), 175B: 478 (Papilio). 
Type locality: [“Indiis.”] 
[amalthea (Clerck), 1764: pi. 40, fig. 3. Emendation; see below.] 
amalthea (Cramer), 1780: 29, 173, pi. 209, fig. A, B. 
Unjustified emendation; see below. 
roeselia (Eschscholtz), 1821: 207, pi. 5, fig. 9 (Cynthia). 
Type locality: “Brasil.” 
