NYMPHALIS (CHAIIAXES) ETESIPE. 



Plate X. 



Order : Lepidoptera, Linn. Section : Diurna, Latr. Family : NymphaliJie, Swamson. 



Genus. Nymphalis, Lutr. Papflio (Eq. aclnv.) Linn. Drury. Papilio Nymplialis, Fabr. (Subgenvs : 

 Cliavaxes, Boisduval.) 



Nymphalis (Charaxes) Etesipe. Alis supra atro-coeruleis, subtiis albo sriseo nigro ferrugineoque niarmo- 

 ratis; utrinque fascia alb&, media, anticarum interrupta. (Ex-pa; s. Alar. 3 unc. 6 lin.) 



Syn. Nymphalis Etesipe, Latr. Ig God. Enc. MHh. is., p. ^bb. No. 19. 



Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Etheocles, Drury, Apj). vol. 3. (nee Fuhricius.) 



Habitat ; " Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1770" {Drury'.^ MSS.). 



Upper Side. Antennae black. Thorax and abdomen nearly black. The external part of the 

 wings black, but next the body of a blueish cast. A blueish white bar, about a third of an inch in 

 breadth, rises in the superior wings, and, crossing the inferior, meets just below the abdomen. At the 

 tips of the former are five small oblong whiteish spots, and two larger, placed close to the forementioned 

 bar, but separated from it by the tendons of the wing. Posterior wings furnished with four short tails 

 of equal length, having four small white spots at the abdominal corners, and a small yellow crescent 

 about the middle of the external edge. 



Under Side. Palpi, legs, and breast white. Abdomen brown. Anterior wings next the body 

 of a blueish ash-colour, which becomes darker as it approaches the external edges. Half these wings 

 next the body, is adorned with many differently shaped spots of a dirty red, verged with black. A 

 range of not less than seven oblong black spots is situated along the external edges, and the whiteish 

 bar, visible on the upper side, is here to be seen, but not so regular. The ground of the posterior 

 wings is the same colour as the anterior, vsdth several reddish spots differently shaped, and verged with 

 black. Anterior edges white, and along the external edges are a number of small black spots and 

 streaks not to be distinctly described. 



The name of Etheocles, which Drury applied to this insect, without any reference to 

 Fabricius, had been previously employed by that author for a distinct but nearly allied 

 species, which he indeed regarded as identical with Drury's insect. The distinctions 

 between the two species were first pointed out in the Encyclopedic Methodique, in which 

 work the name adopted above was given to Drury's insect. 



NYMPHALIS (CHARAXES) BERENICE. 



Plate XI. fig. 1, 2. 



Order : Lepidoptera, Linn. Section: Diurna, Latr. Family: NymphalidEe, Swainson. 



Genus. Ny.mphalis, Latr. Papilio (Eq. aehiv.) Linn. Drury. Papilio Nymphalis, Fabr. (Subuenus : 



Charaxes, Boisduval.) 

 Ny.mphalis (Charaxes) Berenice. Alis supra nigris, fascia communi rufii, disco nigro maculato ; posticis 



subtus albo, flavo ferrugineoque maeulatis (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Berenice, Drury, App. vol. 3. (1783.) Fabr. Mant. Ins. 2. p. 48. Nu. 471. (1787.) 

 Papilio Zingha, Cramer, pi. 'ilb.Jiij. B. C. Herbst. t. \b\.fi<j. 3. 4. Donovan Nat. Repos. 3. 107. 



Habit.at : " Sierra Leone, jMr. Smeathman, 1776" (Drury's MSS.). 



