N YMPH ALI D^ .-NYMPH ALIN^ . 



EURYPHENE I. 



I.— EURYPHENE EUSEMOIDES. 9 . Figs. 1, 2. 



Exp, nearly 3 inches. 



Female. Upperside. Anterior wings brownish-black, the fringes white at 

 the tip, and (very slightly) along the hind margin ; five large sulplnn--yellow 

 spots in two oblique rows ; the first crossing the end of the cell, and the second 

 (larger) beyond and below it ; two contiguous spots at two-thirds of the length 

 of the wing, and another beyond and below them. Posterior wings rufous-pink, 

 with a broad black border on costa and hind margin, the base black, and one or 

 two obsolete black spots beyond. Fringes mostly white for two-thirds of the 

 length of the hind margin ; inner margin yellow. 



Underside. Anterior wings brown, marked as above, but the basal lialf 

 of the cell is filled up with rufous-pink as far as the first yellow spot, within 

 which are two small black spots ; nearer the base is another black spot in the 

 cell ; and the base of the costa is rufous-pink. Posterior wings rufous-pink 

 bordered with brown, which shades into dull yellow towards the anal angle ; 

 inner margin yellow ; a black spot near the base of the costa ; cell with a black 

 spot near the base, two small ones in the middle, and a small one at the 

 extremity ; beyond the cell is a longitudinal yellowish blotch. 



Palpi yellow beneath. Abdomen ringed with white. 



In the Collections of Messrs. Philij) Crowley and Henley Grose Smith. 



This remarkable insect, although apparently belonging to Eurypheiie, is more like EuphcVih-ii 

 Persejs, Dm., than any other butterfly; but still more closely resembles the group of African 

 moths of which Euseniia Euphemia, Fabr., may be regarded as the type. 



II.— EUEYPHENE INNOCUA. $ . Figs. 3, 4. 



Exp. 2j inches. 



Male. Upperside dark brown, obscurely shaded with greenish and reddish 

 cupreous, especially on the posterior wings, the dark spotting of the under- 



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