156 RHOPALOCERA AFRIC.E AUSTRALIS. 



Java. North India. Canara. Borneo. — Coll. E. I. C. Mus. 



'* Madagascar. Bourbon. Mauritius. Bengal. China. 

 Sunda Isles. Guiana." — Boisd., Faune Ent. de Mad. 



*' Port Natal (universal)." — Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg. 



** Somauli Country." — Felder, Lep. Fragm., p. 16. 



" Cayenne. Surinam. Guiana. East Africa. New 

 Holland (!)." — Gen. Diurn. Lep. 



Genus EURYPHENE. 



Euryphene, Boisd. 



Imago. — Head wide ; palpi long, erect ; antennce very 

 long, with a gradually-formed, robust club. Thorax robust 

 and woolly. Fore-wings moderately large ; costa very much 

 arched ; apex rather acute ; hind-margin nearly straight. 

 Hind-wings sub-oval ; hind-margin entire, or not strongly 

 scalloped. Abdomen rather small. 



The above characters of the Genus Euryphene are taken 

 from the " Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera." The few 

 species known inhabit the West Coast of Africa, with the 

 exception of E. ccerulea, Boisd., discovered at Natal by 

 M. Delegorgue. 



92. Euryphene cserulea. 



Euryphene caerulea, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 592, 



[n. 77. 



" Habit and size of Guineensis. Beep-blue ; as in Vero- 

 nica, Cram. ;* near hind-margin of both wings a row of oval 

 spots rather darker than ground-colour, succeeded by a mar- 

 ginal streak of the same hue. Basal portion of wings, as far 

 as middle, of a darker hue than ground-colour ; and on this 

 darker portion, in fore-wing, are two or three annular spots 

 of paler blue, situated transversely between costa and median 

 nervure. Under-side. — Brownish-red, as in Veronica, with 

 some paler transverse striae ; beyond middle, as in Veronica, 

 a transverse series of small white dots. 



Port Natal." — Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg. 



Genus A T E R I C A . 

 Aterica, Boisd. 

 Hamanumida, Hiibn. 

 Nymphalis, Godt. 

 Adolias, Boisd. 

 Imago. — Head large, nearly as wide as thorax ; eyes 

 smooth, prominent ; palpi small, scaly, ascendant, projecting 



* Pap. Exot., pi. 323, f. F. C. 



