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tigated, a considerable number of the tropical species of 

 Nymphalis will have to be added to our list of Rhopalocera. 

 Only three of our eight species are known as natives of tro- 

 pical Africa, and ojie of the three — N. Pelias, Cramer — I 

 give as South African solely on the authority of the author 

 who first named and figured the species. 



97. Nymphalis Xiphares. 



? . Papilio Xiphares, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 377, f. A, B. 



Papilio Xyphares, Herhst, Nat. Bek. Ins. — Schmett., IV, 



[pi. 60, f. 5, 6. 



Papilio Xiphares, Fah. Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 71, n. 221. 



Nymphalis Xiphares, Goclt.y Eric. Math., IX, p. 357, n. 25. 



Charaxes Xiphares, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 593. 



$ . Papilio Thyestes, StoU, Siippl. Cram. Pap. Exot., pi. 



[32, f. 2, 2 B. 



Eriboea Thyestessa, Jliibyi., Verz. Bek. Sckmett., p. 432. 



Nymphalis Thurius, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 354, n. 15. 



Charaxes Xiphares, $ , Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 593. 



$ and ? . Var. Charaxes Cithaeron, C. 8f R. Felder, JVien. 

 [Ent. Monatschr., Bd. Ill, taf. 8, f. 2. 3, 



Expands 3 in. 8 lin. — 4 in. 5 lin. 



$ . Black, glossed tvith violaceous-blue ; and loith viola- 

 ceous-blue bands and spots. Fore-ioing : strongly glossed with 

 blue from base ; a median, transverse row of blue spots com- 

 mencing immediately beyond extremity of discoidal cell, and 

 extending to inner-margin beyond middle, where it is joined 

 by the last two or three spots of another, straighter row of 

 smaller blue spots, commencing on costa, not very far from 

 apex, with two conspicuous white spots; along hind-marginal 

 edge are observable some faint, small, pale-ochreous spots, 

 one between each two nervules, — except between third median 

 nervule and submedian nervure, where there are two such 

 spots. Hind-wing : a broad, median, violaceous-blue band, 

 widest about third median nervule, not reaching submedian 

 nervure, narrowing to costa, and interrupted on first subcostal 

 nervule — its lower, outer edge not far before anal angle; a row 

 of seven or eight sub-lunuiate, blue spots near and parallel to 

 hind-margin ; beyond it, bordering margin, a row of partly 

 contiguous, thin, bluish lunules, becoming thinner and almost 

 obsolete towards costa ; two short black tails, rather slender, 

 at extremities of first and third median nervules respectively, 

 — the former the longer of the two. Under-side. — Pale, 

 glistening, olivaceotcs-ochreous; with thin, blue-black, white- 

 edged, transverse stria;. Fore-wing : in discoidal cell, three 

 blue-black, white-edged transverse strijE, and a fourth parallel 



