NYMPHALID.E.-NYMPHALIN^E. 



EUXANTHE. I. 



I.— EUXANTHE WAItEFIELDII. $ . Fig. 1. 



Godnrtia JVakcficIdii, 'SVard, "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine," vol. 10, 

 p. 152 (1873); Oberthiir, "Etudes d'Entomologie," part 3, p. 28, pi. 2, f. 5(1878); 

 male only. 



Exp. nearly 4 inches. 



Female. Upperside velvety-black, with whita markings, those on the 

 anterior wings faintly tinged with greenish-blue. Anterior wings with the hind 

 margin curved inwards below the middle, slightly indented between the branches 

 of the median nervure, and then regularly curved to the hinder angle ; posterior 

 wings regularly rounded and scalloped to the anal angle. Anterior wings with a 

 pale spot near the base, below the subcostal nervure, a large oval spot nearly 

 filling the outer half of the cell, biit not reaching quite to its extremity, or to the 

 subcostal nervure ; beyond the cell rims a row of seven long spots from below the 

 subcostal nervure nearly to the inner margin, the second the smallest, the fifth 

 and sixth the largest, the sixth being deeply indented at both extremities ; across 

 the apical third of the wing runs another series of six pale spots, the first small, 

 below the costa, the next three large, but diminishing, and the last two small, 

 between the branches of the median nervure ; below the tip are two indistinct 

 white dots. Fringes slightly marked with white between the nervures. Posterior 

 wings with the whole centre from the inner margin to nearly two-thirds of their 

 length white ; costa black, with a white spot at half its length ; hind margin 

 black, with a row of eight moderate-sized white spots curving from the costa to 

 the anal angle ; another row of about fourteen or fifteen smaller spots in a some- 

 what waved series ; and an outer row of seven still smaller spots opposite the 

 incisions on the hind margin. 



Underside nearly as above, but with the smaller white markings more dis- 

 tinct. Anterior wings tinged with coffee-brown towards the costa and tip ; two 

 additional small white dashes near the hinder angle. Posterior wings with the 

 costa and hind margin coffee-brown instead of black, and with several white 



VOL. I., JANUAET, 1890. D D 



