NYMPHALID^. 



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a very irregular, interrupted streak, from costa, just before 

 middle, to inner-margin, a little before anal angle ; between 

 this streak and hind-margin, a waved row of greenish-yellow 

 lunules ; beyond this, a row of minute, white, violet-tinged, 

 dots, the two largest at anal angle ; two rows of yellowish 

 lunules along hind-margin, indistinct ; a green space at anal 

 angle. 



Boisduval (on whose authority I include this Butterfly amoug the South 

 African species), mentions N. Tiridates among the Rliopalocera collected 

 by M. Defegorgue to the North of the Colony of Natal ; and remarks that 

 " specimens' from Moselekatze's Country are entirely like those of the West 

 Ooast." 



Sierra Leone. Ashanti. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



" Moselekatze's Country."— Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., 



[p. 593. 



100. Nymphalis Brutus. 



Papilio Brutus, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 241, f. E. F. 



Papilio Caius, Herhst, Nat. Bek. Ins. — Schmett., pi. G4, 



[f. 1, 2. 



Eribaea Brutus, Hiihner, Verz. Bek. Schmett., pi. 47, n. 422. 



Nymphalis Brutius, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 351, n. 3. 



Expands 3 in. 4 lin. — 4 in. 1 lin. 



Broionish'black ; loith a gradually -widening, yellowish- 

 white hand, beyond middle, from costa of fore-toing to near 

 inner-margin of hind-iving. Fore-wing: a greenish gloss over 

 basal portion ; the first live spots of the transverse, yellowish- 

 white band, which commences not far from apex, distinctly 

 separate from each other, — the remainder confluent as far as 

 inner-margin, where the band is widest ; along hind-margin, 

 between nervules, a row of small, reddish-ochreous spots. 

 Hi7id-wing : the transverse band prolonged across this wing, 

 as a broad, continuous, yellowish-white, median band, as far 

 as subraedian nervure ; along hind-marginal edge, a row of 

 narrow bluish, or greenish, lunules, sometimes yellow-tinged, 

 always more or less obliterated towards costa, and sometimes 

 quite obsolete, except two or tlu'ee imperfect lunules near anal 

 angle ; a little before these lunules is a row of pale-blue spots, 

 of which only two large ones at anal angle are usually visible ; 

 tails on first and third median nervules slender, rather long, 

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

 Rich chocolate-red ; with numerous ivhite-margined, metallic- 

 centred, blackish transverse strioe and spots; the transverse 

 lohite band very cotispicuous, glistening, continuous throughout. 

 Fore-wing : five of the white-margined striae described on 

 costa, — three in discoidal cell, one at its extremity, and one 

 beyond middle, its lower end touching transverse white band ; 



