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in the males, almost blood-red ; in the females, the margins 

 and the greater part of the fore-wings are brown. In other 

 species the males are yellow, varying in different species from 

 a very pale straw-colour to a deep tawny ; and the females are 

 black or tawny, with white markings, sometimes in the form of 

 a white transverse band as in Limenitis, sometimes as white 

 z'g-zag lines, and sometimes as large white spots on the fore- 

 wings, a great part of the hind-wings being occasionally 

 white. 



Euryphene, Boisduval, is another genus, allied to those 

 which we have been considering. The males of many of the 

 smaller species resemble Aterica, being blue, brown, or tawny, 

 with dark bands, and the females are usually tawny or reddish, 

 with two white bands across the black tip of the fore-wings. 

 In one section of the genus, however, the hind-wings and the 

 inner-margin of the fore-wings are of various shades of green, 

 and there is a white or yellow band across the apex of the fore- 

 wings. These species much resemble the genus Euphcedra in 

 colouring, but the under surface is generally marked with a 

 transverse or curved line, and the hind-wings are narrower 

 and less strongly dentated. 



Euplitcdra, Hiibner, is one of the most beautiful and charac- 

 teristic of all the genera of African Butterflies. Most of the 

 species are of considerable size, expanding three inches and 

 over, and always of conspicuous colours, fulvous, green, red, 

 orange, or blue. The first group is of an orange-red, with the 

 tip of the fore-wings broadly black, and marked with a large 

 white blotch or band, and the hind-wings have a black border 

 marked with a row of large white spots. Many African Butter- 

 flies and Moths, of half a dozen families and genera, are 

 marked in this manner, so as to produce a greater or less re- 

 semblance to the abundant and highly-protected Limnas chry- 

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