NYMPHALID.E.-NYMPHALIN.E. 



EUPH^EDRA I. 



I.— EUPHiEDEA OCTOGRAMMA. $ . Figs. 1, 2. 



Exp. 2f inches. 



Malr. Upperside coppery green, with black borders ; towards the base 

 bhiish, with large black spots. Anterior wings with a black spot at the base of 

 the cell, a broad transverse one in the middle, and another at the extremity ; 

 the basal space between the fork of the median and anal nervures is also black. 

 Hind margin black, with two or three small black spots on its inner border below 

 the tip. Posterior wings with a large black spot in the middle of the cell and 

 another at the extremity ; hind margin broadly black, especially towards the 

 anal angle, with a row of seven large pale blue spots, gradually increasing in 

 size from the costa to the anal angle. Inner margin black, the long hair with a 

 slight reddish shade. 



Fringes black, white at the tip of the anterior wings, and the incisions 

 very slightly marked with white, and on the posterior wings still less so. 



Underside dull green, with an orange shade running parallel to the inner 

 margin of the posterior wings ; anterior wings with a square white spot at the 

 tip, below which runs a submarginal row of long or subsagittate black spots 

 between the nervures to the anal angle of the posterior wings ; fore wings with 

 a black spot at the base of the cell, and irregularly 8-shaped spots in the middle 

 and at the extremity ; below the median nervure is an incomj)lete oval mark ; 

 posterior wings with an 8-shaped mark in the middle of the cell, and a hollow 

 oval at the extremity. 



Eyes purple, orbits white, legs brown, tarsi (and likewise palpi) yellowish. 



Hab. Cameroon s. 



Ill the Collection of Henley G-rose Smith. 



A very distinct species, but perhaps most nearly allied to E. Francina, Godt. (Sojihrun. 

 Doubl. and Hew.). 



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