NYMPHALID.E. — NYMPHALIN^. CYMOTHOE. 



" Female. Upperside. Both wings light rufous from the base to beyond the 

 midflle. Anterior wings, with the apical portion from the centre of the costa to 

 the inner angle brown-black, crossed by an oblique band of six white spots, the 

 third being small, the fourth the largest, elongated, with a small black spot in 

 the middle, the fifth spot interrupted, and the sixth near the inner angle nearly 

 obsolete ; two white spots near the apex. Posterior wings from beyond the 

 middle brown-black, with a submarginal irregular band of white spots, those 

 towards the apex indistinct and smaller than the three nearest the inner angle. 



" Underside. Rufous-orange, darker towards the apex. Anterior wings with 

 two indistinct reddish lines in the cell, the band of spots and two apical spots 

 as on the upperside, and apex white ; a submarginal row of dull brown hastate 

 markings. Posterior wings with the submarginal row of white spots bordered 

 inwardly with dull brown, inside which is an indistinct row of hastate white 

 markings, an indistinct white spot near the centre of the costa, a submarginal 

 row of brown linear markings edged outwardly with white. 



" Margins of both wings crenulated. Thorax and abdomen rufous above 

 and white below ; inner margin of posterior wings beneath narrowly whitish." 

 (H. G. S., loc. cit.) 



Hab. Cameroons. 



In the Collection of Henley Grose Smith. 



III.— CYMOTHOE CPtOWLEYI. s. Fig. 5. 



Euphcedm (/) CrotcJqii, AV. F. Kirby, " Annals and Magazine of Natural His- 

 tory," ser. 6, vol. 3, p. 247 (1889). 



Exp. 2 inches. 



Female. " Upperside. Orange-tawny, the costa and apical half of the 

 anterior wings, and the hind margins of all the wings, black ; a row of live white 

 spots (the third and fourth transverse) across the black apex of the anterior 

 wings ; the incisions white, and the border marked with a white loop at the 

 anal angle of the anterior wings, and with four at least on the posterior wings. 



" Underside. Coloured as above, but rather paler, and with more distinct 

 white loops on the posterior wings. 



