NYMPHALID^E.-NYMPHALIN^. 



THALEROPIS. I. 



I.— THALEROPIS CLEOCHAEES. $ . Figs. 1, '2. 



Apatura Cleochares, Hewitson, "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," vol. 10, 

 p. 58 (August, 1873). 



Exp. l-j% inches. 



" Male. Upperside. Dark brown. Anterior wings with the base red- 

 brown, a spot in the cell bordered inwardly with black, a large spot below this, 

 deeply indented on the basal side, and bordered with black ; crossed at the 

 middle by three spots, the first of which (near the costal margin) is trifid, ail 

 rufous-orange : two minute white spots near the apex. 



" Posterior wings rufous, paler near the costal margin, protruded at the 

 anal angle, the base rufous-brown, the outer margin dark brown ; a submarginal 

 series of four black spots, a single black spot above these near the abdominal 

 margin. 



" Underside very pale, clouded with lilac-brown towards the outer margins ; 

 both wings with a submarginal black Ime, bordered above with paler colour. 

 Anterior wings as above, except that there are two minute black spots in the 

 cell, a large black spot filling the indentation described above ; a second black 

 spot between the median nervules beyond the middle. 



"Posterior wings undulated with rufous-brown, with the costal margin 

 curved outwardly near the base and apex and inwardly at the middle, and 

 marked by small black linear spots ; a small spot near the base, and a linear 

 spot from the costal margin dark brown, a larger central spot of lilac and 

 brown ; the basal spot above the anal angle has a centre of pale blue." (Hewit- 

 son, hic. cit.) 



Hab. Angola. 



In the Hewitson Collection of the British Museum. 



Mr. Hewitson's Collection contains two specimens of this rare species. He remarks, " This 

 species would at first sight he taken for a Vanessa. The eyes are, however, smooth ; aud I have, 

 I think, fixed its true position, near A. loiiia." 



Vanessa Ionia, Eversm., which occurs at Amasia, in Asia Minor, was afterwards figured l\v 

 Herrich-Schaffer under the name of Apatura Ammcmia ; and Staudinger, in the second edition of 

 his Catalogue of European L^pidoptera, i)ublished in 1871, made it the type of a new genus, 

 Thaleroins (p. 17). 



VOL. I., APRIL, 1891. T T 



