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middle of the posterior edges is a patch of a pale clay colour, with six small white spots. Posterior wings 

 having a third part, next the shoulders, gi-eyish and dark brown ; the remainder pale clay, with a reddish 

 brown patch next the upper corners ; from whence runs an undulated brown line to the abdominal edges 

 at the extremity of the body, and another fainter along the external edges. The wings are dentated. 



NYMPHALIS CiENIS <?. 



Plate XIX. fig. 1,2. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diuma. Family: Nymphalidse, *t'am«. 



Genus. Nymph alis, Schrank. Latr. God. Boisd. Papilio (Dan. Cand.), Linn, ^-c. 



NYMPHALIS C^Nis. AHs subrotundatis albis, margine postico et ante hnnc marginem linea angnlati maculisque 



nigris ; subtus omnibus strigS. communi bninnca. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 9 lin.) 

 Syn. Papilio (Dan. Cand.) Cajnis, Drury, App. vol. 2. Enq/cl. MHh. ix. J3. 142. A'o. 85. (Pieris C.) 



Nymphalis amphiceda, Fahr. Ent. Syst.ni. \.\Vi- iVo. 348. J. Cramer, pZ. 146. D. E. Enc. Me'tk. 

 ix. 384. 113. 

 Habitat : Calabar, Africa. 



Upp^r Side. Antennse black. Eyes red brown. Thorax greenish. Abdomen sooty brown. Wings 

 white, having a narrow border running along the external edges of a soot brown ; over which is an 

 indented, angulated, black line, appearing in some places like two points of arrows united. Along the 

 anterior edges of the anterior wings also runs an exceecUng narrow black hne. 



Under Side. Palpi, breast, sides, and legs white. Wings white; being divided as it were by a 

 brown line, which, beginning near the middle of the anterior edges of the anterior wings, and crossing 

 them and the posterior, meets near the abdominal corners. The inner part of the division having many 

 brown lines thereon, shaped like angles, circles, &c. A faint angulated brown line runs along the ex- 

 ternal edges of all the wings ; whereon are some short faint brown streaks placed on the upper angles. 

 The wings are a little dentated. 



NYMPHALIS MELICERTA. 



Plate XIX. fig. 3, 4. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section ; Diuma. Family : NymphalidK, Swnms. 

 Gbntjs. Nymphalis, Latr. God. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.), Linn. Drury. 



Nymphalis Melicerta. Alis denticulatis utrinque fusco-nigris, fascia latek strigisque albis, anticarnm basi 

 macula cuneifonni alba. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Melicerta, Drury, App. vol. 2. Herbst. Pap. tab. 238./. o. 6. 

 Nymphalis Melinoe, Enc. Mith. ix. p. 4.32. No. 201. 

 Papilio Blandina, Cramer, pi. 237 . Jig. E. F. 



Habitat ■■ Sien-a Leone. 



Upper Side. Antennee black. Thorax and abdomen dark brown. Anterior wings sooty brown, with 

 two white narrow lines running along the external edges. From the shoulders runs a long white streak 

 to the middle of the wing, and a small one at the end of it; wliere are also six other white streaks placed 

 transversely, one of which is very small. Posterior wings sooty brown, having the two narrow lines 

 continued along the external edges from the anterior wings. A broad straight white bar crosses these 



