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Ujyper Side. Antenn* brown. Thorax and abdomen dark brown, with four yellowish lines cross^ing 

 them. Anterior wings dark purplish brown, having many marks and spots of different shapes and sizes 

 placed thereon of a deeper shade ; four being round, and gradually dimini:^hing in size, and placed along 

 the external edges ; two others also, that are small, are situated at the shoulders. Posterior wings dark 

 brown; the upper parts along the anterior edges dull yellow, reaching almost to the thorax. Two 

 indented ash-coloured lines cross these wings ; one beginning at the upper corners running circularly, 

 and meeting below the body ; the other running in a straight line above the first, and meeting a little 

 above the extremity of it. 



Under Side. Palpi, breast, and abdomen ash-coloured. Legs yellowish. Anterior wings dull 

 yellow, but next the tips brown, where there are some greyish spots and marks ; in the centre are two 

 small round spots, almost black ; and along the anterior edges, next the shoulders, are some other 

 brown spots variously and irregularly shaped. Posterior wings entirelv dull yellow, immaculate ; the 

 margins of these being a little dentated, the anterior ones entire. 



The authors of the Encyclopedie Methodique consider the insect here figured, and that 

 represented in PI. XVII. fig. 5, G, as varieties of the same species. Mr. Smeathman states, 

 that this species is found in the same gloomy recesses, and often congregated together in 

 the same manner as Nymphalis Erithonius, figured in PI. XV. 



BIBLIS ILITHYIA. 



Plato XVII. fig. 1, 2. 



Order; Lppidoptera. Section : Diiirua. Family: Nymplialitla', 5«ia(?js. 

 Genus. Biblis, Fahricius, Latr. ^- God. Papilio (Nympli. Pl>al.), Di-ury. 



BiBLis Ii.iTHYH. Alis rotmulatis denticulatis fulvis fascia baseos marginpque fulvo maculato nigris ; postieis 

 subtus faseiis dualjus albis transversis nigro-puiictatis. (Expans. Alar. '2 unc. 3 liu.) 



Syn. Papilio (Nymph. Plial.) Ilithyia, Drurij, App. vol. -2. Fabricius Ent. Sijst. 111. 1.;;. 1:31. No. 403. 

 Cramer, pi. 213.» A. B. ^ .—214. C. D. $ . 

 Pap. Polinice, Cramer, pi. 'ilb.fig. G. H. (var.) 

 Biblis Ilithyia, Enc. MHli. ix. p. 327. 



Habitat: Senegal, and Coast of Africa. 



Upper Side. Antennae brown. Thorax and abdomen dark brown. Wings fine deep or brown 

 orange. The anterior deeply verged with black along the external and anterior edges ; the former 

 having a row of oblong orange spots running parallel with them, which is continued, together with the 

 deep black margin, along the posterior wings to the abdominal corners ; the spots being larger along these 

 wings than on the anterior. A black, irregular, and indented line rises near the middle of the anterior 

 wings, and ends at the posterior edges. 



Under Side. Palpi and breast orange. Legs brown. Anterior wings orange ; the external edges 

 with a small, narrow, white indented margin. Four small white spots are placed near the tips, that next 

 the anterior edge being least ; and along the same edge are several other long black spots, margined 

 with white. Posterior wings with a row of white crescents placed along the external edges ; over this 

 is an orange bar, next is a row of cream-coloured spots almost round, being seven in number, with a row 

 of very small ones above them, consisting of fourteen ; above this is an orange bar, with a cream one 



