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Under Side. Palpi yellow, bordered with white. Breast dark brown, with white streaks. Legs 

 brown. Abdomen red-brown. The ground of the anterior wings next the body is a light chocolate, 

 which is separated from a dusky brown border running along the external edges by a white and orange 

 band, which, being the chief colours on this side, are continued along the posterior wings. The base is 

 adorned with black streaks, surrounded with white, placed along the anterior edges, and others of different 

 foniis on the middle of the wings. Along the external edges, on the dusky border, is placed a row of 

 black triangular spots, which at the lower corners are doubled. Posterior wings of the same colour as 

 the anterior, the chocolate ground having a number of small black marks and streaks, bordered with 

 white, in a very irregular manner. At the lower corner is placed a dark grey eye, with a black iris and 

 a white longitudinal streak in the centre, two rows of small black spots, some being edged with white, of 

 different forms, are also placed along the dusky border. 



We learn, fi-om the observations of Smeathman and Drury, that this is the insect 

 noticed in the observation upon Charaxes Jason, as possessing exceedingly strong powers 

 of flight. Vide Vol. I. PI. 1. fig. 1. 



NYMPHALIS VARANES. 



Plate XXXI. %. 1, -2. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section; Diiirna. Family: Nymphalidce, Sivains. 



Genus. NViViPHALis, Latr. Papilio (Nymph. Gemmat.), Drury. 



Nymphalis Varanes. Alls supra basi albis immaculatis, apice ferrugineis fulvo et fusco punetatis. (Expans. 

 A!ar. 3 unc. 9 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (N.) Varanes, Fabr. Sp. Jits. 2. p. U. No. 55. 

 Papilio (Nymph. Geram.) Vcranes, Drury, App. vol. 3. 

 Papilio v., Crai)ter,pl. 160. D. E. <? . pi. 388. A. B. J . 



Habitat: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1775" (Drury's MSS.). Caffraria (Em. MHh.). India (Fabr. 

 incorrectly). 



Upper Side. Antennae black. Thorax greenish. Abdomen white, spotted on the upper part with 

 black. Basal half of the wings ash-coloured, and bordered with deep red-brown. Anterior 

 wings having a row of six orange spots along the external edges, and two oval ones near the middle of 

 the anterior edges ; two black spots, shaped like the beards of arrows, are situated in the centre. Posterior 

 wings angulated and furnished with two short tails, having a row of five black spots running parallel with 

 the external edges. Wings not indented. 



Under Side. Palpi, breast, and legs buff-coloured. Abdomen white. Wings next the body dark 

 ash-coloured, but along the tips and external edges darker. A narrow line of a brown colour rises from 

 the posterior edges of the anterior wings, and, bending towards the tips, is lost in the general colour of 

 that part of the wings. A row of small faint black spots runs parallel with the external edges, being 

 situated between them and the fore-mentioned dark line ; the inner divisions of these and the posterior 

 wings have a number of small black marks, like Hebrew characters, regularly dispersed on them. 

 Posterior wings with a dark narrow line rising on the anterior edges, which crosses the wings, meeting below 

 the abdomen. A small black eye, with a white pupil, is placed near the middle of the anterior edges, 

 and a row of faint oval dark spots runs parallel with the external edges, ending at the abdominal corners. 



