NYMPHALID/T.. — NYMPHALIN^. — EUXANTHE. 



spots near the base, above the subcostal ncrvure and towards the hinder angle, 

 which are not visible above. 



Head and thorax black, with numerous small white dots ; abdomen tawny- 

 yellow, jjlack at the base, and with a dark strijjc on the back. 



Hah. East Africa. 



lu the Collectious of Messrs. Charles Oberthiir (type from Elbe) and Henley Grose Smith. 



II.— EUXANTHE TIBEEIUS. i . Figs. 2, 3. ? . Fig. 4. 



L'uxaiithe Tiberius, Henley Grose Smith, " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," ser. G, vol. 3, p. 129 (February, 1889). $. only. 



Exp. 3| to 4 inches. 



Male. Upperside brownish-black, with a slight purple iridescence on the 

 posterior wings ; incisions very slightly marked with white. Anterior wings 

 with a large dull red patch, filling up the cell, except towards its extremity, and 

 extending more or less above and below it. There arc two oblique rows of pale 

 green spots, the first consisting of five spots, the first inside the upper part of 

 the discoidal cell, the second outside the lower half, and the rest rimning 

 towards the hinder angle, the last emarginate within, and standing above the 

 submediau nervure at about three-fourths of its length. The outer row consists 

 of four green spots, extending from below the costa to just above the median 

 nervure ; there is also a curving row of nine moderate-sized submarginal white 

 spots, placed betw-een the nervurcs. Posterior wings with a submarginal row of 

 twelve smaller white spots, placed, mostly in fours, between the nervures ; towards 

 the apex, three more spots, the middle one largest, from the commencement of 

 an inner row. 



Underside with similar markings, but with the ground-colour brown, shad- 

 ing into coffee-colour or reddish, especially towards the costa and apex of the 

 anterior wings, and on the hind wings ; towards the base arc several white spots, 

 not visible above ; about tw^o on the anterior wings, and four on the posterior 

 wings ; only one spot in the inner submarginal row on the posterior wings. 



Body l)lack, thorax bordered with white above ; head, thorax, legs and palpi 

 spotted with white. 



Female. Upperside with the ground-colour blacker than in the male. 

 Anterior wings marked as in the male, but the inner band formed of larger spots 

 and of a pale greenish-white, the outer spots white. Inner margin with a pale 



