NYMPHALID.5: . — NYMPHALINiE . CYMOTHOE . 



" Body black, spotted with white, and with a white stripe at the base of the 

 abdomen above." (W. F. K., loc. cit.) 

 Hab. AgoYe. 



In the Collection of Mr. Crowley. 



Several African butterflies and moths are coloured like this insect, though it has no very 

 close aUy. 



IV.— CYMOTHOE PEEUSSI. s . Fig. 6. s • Figs. 7, 8. 



Cymothoe Prenssi, 0. Staudinger, " Stettiner Eutomologische Zeitung," 

 vol. 50, p. 412 (1889). 



Exp. 2J to 2| inches. 



Male. Uppeeside. Tawny, hind margins dentated, and edged with a 

 rather thick black line ; anterior wings with the costa edged with a black hne, 

 and with a row of eight submarginal black spots between the nervm-es ; the row 

 is continued on the posterior wings, but after the first two spots it becomes a 

 continuous festooned submarginal line ; posterior wings rather pointed at anal 

 angle. 



Underside reddish-grey, with black lines in the cells forming two irregular 

 patterns in each, the inner closed, the outer open towards the costa ; under 

 the inner one is a black ring on the anterior wings. Across the middle of 

 both wings are slight traces of a pale band, edged on both sides on the anterior 

 wings, and on the inside on the posterior wings with rather indistinct and more 

 or less continuous brown dashes. Marginal markings as above, but with a 

 whitish spot at the apex of the anterior wings, another within the fourth spot, 

 and faint indications of other pale spots within the spots and festooned line. 



Female. Upperside tawny. Anterior wings with some zigzag lines in the 

 cell, the apical third black, with three white spots at the end of the cell, two 

 near the apex, and two fainter within these, and nearer the costa ; two pairs, the 

 inner ones sagittate, between the submedian nervules, and another before the 

 hinder angle. Posterior wings with a brown border (narrowest just below the 

 tip) and with black spots and lunules, forming an almost continuous festooned 

 line ; this series commences with two pairs of black spots near the apex, the 

 inner ones slightly bordered with white on both sides ; just within these is a 

 rather conspicuous white spot on the costa. 



Underside reddish-tawny, marked nearly as in the male, but much more 

 distinctly ; the pale markings as above, but more extended, and wdth an addi- 

 tional white spot at the tip and another just below ; on the anterior wings the 



