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Under Side. Palpi white. Legs white. Breast yellowish. Abdomen olive-brown. Wings dusky 

 orange ; the white spots described on the upper side being here very discernible with the addition of a 

 few others next the body. Margins of the wings entire. 



NYMPHALIS (CHARAXES) ANTICLEA. 



Plate XXVII. iig. 0, 6. 



Order; Lepidoptera, iinn. Section: Diunia, Latr. Family: NymphaliJae, ^icai/ts. 



Gencs. Ny mphalis, Za<r. Papilio (Eq. achiv.), Zinn. Drury. Papilio Nymphalis, Fabr. (Subgenus: 

 Charaxes, Boisduval. ) 



NvMPHALis (Charaxes) Anticlea. Alis suprii, fuscis fascia terminali fulvii, in aiiticis inaculari et abbreviata, 

 in posticis ocellis 4, anali sesquialtcro. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 9 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Anticlea, Drnrtj, App. col. 3. 

 Nymphalis Ant., Enc. MHh. ix. /j.3.53. No. '.). 



Habitat : Sien-a Leone (Drury, in text). " Rio J.ineii'o, Mr. Bonifas, 17tl6" {Vrury's .M8S.)- 



Upijer Side. Antennae black. Thorax and abdomen dark brown. Anterior wings chocolate- 

 coloured ; the lower corners being tipped with orange, to the upper part of which joins a spot of the 

 same colour, and another small one is placed nearer the tips. The basal parts of the posterior wings 

 ciiocolate, the apical parts orange ; they are doubly angulated, and at the abdominal comers have a 

 black ocellus with two white pupils, and a small orange spot below them ; three other small eyes are also 

 placed along the external edges. 



Under Side. Palpi and legs buff-coloured. Breast russet. Abdomen dark orange. Wings russet- 

 coloured, with bands of lighter and darker shades running from the anterior edges of the anterior wings, 

 and ending below the body on the abdominal edges, some of the bands being verged with black. 

 Anterior wings having three small black spots placed near the shoulders, and the posterior with two 

 small white spots at the abdominal corners, and four others placed along the external edges, growing 

 fainter as they approach the upper corners, till at length they are quite lost. 



ACR.EA HORTA. 



Plate XXVIII. fig. 1, 2. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section : Diurna. Family : Heliconiidie. 



Genus. Acr.ea, Fabr Latr. Papilio (Heliconii), Fabr. olim. 



.\CR.EA Horta. .\Iis oblongis integerrirais, supra f'ulvis ; anticis ad extimiim hyalino-cincrascentibiis, posticis 



utrinque nigro punctatis subtiisque albidis. ( Expans. Alar. -2 unc. 7^ lin.) 

 Syn. Papilio (Helic.) Horta, Lin/i. Syxt. Nat. H. p.T^o. No. 6i. Drury, App. vol.3. Cramer, Pap. pi. 'i'.W. 



fig.V.G. Herbst.Pap.tab.i'A.JW.i. Mic. Meth. ix. p. -231. I. 

 Habitat: " Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1776" (Drury's MSS.). Cape of Good Hope, and otiier parts of 



Africa (Enc. MHh.). 



Upper Side. Antennae, thorax, and abdomen black, the latter spotted on its sides. Anterior wings, 

 next the body dark orange, but at the tips about two-fifths are pellucid. Near the middle, towards the 

 anterior edge, is a small black spot, and a streak of the same colour. Posterior wings dark orange, black 

 at the base, with a narrow border of orange and black running along the external edges, and a group, 

 consisting of fifteen difTerent shaped black spots, occupying the middle. 



