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NYMPHALID.E. 



Head moderate-sized, with a slight frontal tuft. 



Eyes prominent, naked. 



Antennce rather long, straight ; terminated by a very slender club. 



Lahial Palpi rather elongated, obliquely porrected, extending nearly to twice the length of the head, clothed 

 with scaly hairs, especially on the upper side of the middle joint beyond the middle. Terminal joint small, 

 oval. 

 Thorax oval, moderately robust, woolly ; wings large. 



Fore Wings with the anterior margin very much arched ; apical angle often rather acute. Apical margin variable 

 in outline, generally emarginate and scalloped, three fourths of the length of the anterior. Inner margin 

 nearly straight, longer than the apical one. First and second branches of the subcostal vein arising before the 

 extremity of discoidal cell ; third branch arising at about half the distance between the discoidal cell and the 

 tip of the wing ; fourth branch arising near the tip of the wing. Discoidal cell extending to about two fifths 

 of the length of the wing. Upper disco-cellular vein veiy short ; middle one short, curved ; lower one much 

 longer, slightly curved, extending to the third branch of the median vein, at a little distance from its origin, 

 closing the discoidal cell ; third branch of the median vein much arched. 



Hind Winqs large, scalloped along the outer margin. Precostal vein obliquely arched outwardly. Discoidal 

 cell open in the tyi^ical species, but closed by a very delicate angulated outer disco-cellular vein in others. 



Fore Legs of the male very small, brush-like, feathered on each side. Tarsus very short, not more than one 

 fourth of the length of the tibia. Fore Legs in the female much longer than those of the male, very slender. 

 Tarsus more than half of the length of the tibia, finely spined near the tip beneath. 



Four Hind Legs rather short. Tarsi with numerous vei-y short spines beneath. 

 Abdomen rather slender. 



Transformations unknown. 



The butterflies composing this genus, as here restricted, are of a larger size than those of the two preceding, and not only variable in the 

 form of their wings, but also in the arrangement of their veins, so that it is with some hesitation that I have united them into a single 

 group ; thus, whilst Harma Theobene has the anal angle of the fore, as well as of the hind, wings produced in both sexes, in A. Egesta 

 the hind wings alone are produced in this part. The last-named species has the margin of the wings almost entire, whilst in Alcimeda, 

 Althea, and several fine new allied species in the British Museum collection, the margin of all the wings is scalloped, and the fore ones 

 are angulated below the ape.x, resembling Vanessa Laoniedia and its allies. JMost of the species are, however, distinguished by a 

 narrow dark straight line, running obliquely across all the wings beyond the middle, on the under side. The male of H. Theobene, 

 figured in our Plate XL. fig. .3., has the under side of the wings fulvous buif, thickly powdered with dark brown atoms, and with various 

 markings, very slightly indicated, at the base of the wings. The female of this s[iccics is extremely dingy in its appearance, being 

 dark brown, with the buff and orange patches of the male replaced by a sooty white colour. H. Sangaris is remarkable for the vivid 

 red colour of its upper surface, whilst Egesta and some allied species are of a yellowish buflT. The insect figured in our Plate XLI. 

 under the name of Pallcne Euplthes has so entirely the habit and general appeai'ance of H. Cwnis that I cannot separate them 

 generically, although in the former species the discoidal cell of all the wings is open, whilst in the latter it is closed in all. Moreover, 

 Euplthes has the second branch of the subcostal vein of the fore wings inserted beyond the extremity of the discoidal cell. 



These species appear to be the African rei)resentatives of the Eastern butterflies composing the genus Adolias. 



HARMA. 



Division A. Fore wings with the discoidal cell closed, and the second 

 branch of the subcostal vein arising be/ore the anterior extremity of the 

 cell 



Subdivision a. Hind tcinys with the discoidal cell open. 



Section *. All the wings with the anal angle produced. 



1. Harma Theobene. 



Adolias Theobene Boisduval 3IS.; E. Douhl. List Lep. 



Brit. Mas. p. ] 02. 

 Harma Theobene E. Doubl. MS. ; Doubl. ll'estw. 4- 

 Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. I.cp. pi. 40. f. 3. 

 Ashanti. B.M. 



Section 



All the wings rounded at the anal angle. 



2. Harma Alcimeda. 



Nymphalis Alcimeda Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 38-t. n. 112.; 

 E. Doubl. List Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 102. (Adolias Ale.) 

 Cape of Good Hope. B. M. 



3. Harma fumana ll'estw. nov. sp.t 

 Ashanti. 



B. M. 



Subdivision b. Hind wings with the discoidal cell closed, as well as that of 

 the /ore wings. 



i. Hahma Althea. 



Papilio Althea Cramer, pi. 89. f. E. F.; Drurg, III. iii. t. 

 20. f. 1. 2.; Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. l'. p. 113. n. 

 347.; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 383. n. 111. (Nymphalis 

 Alth.) ; E. Doubl. List Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 102. (Ado- 

 lias Alth.) 

 Cyniothoe Althea Hiibner, Vers. bek. Schm. n. 337. p. 39. 

 Ashanti. B. M. 



5. Harma Egesta. 



Papilio Egesta Cramer, pi. 4(). f. C. D.; Godart, Enc. 

 M. IX. p. 369. n. OS.; E. Doubl. List Lep. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 102. (Adolias Eg.) 

 Apatura Egesta Hiibner, Vers. bek. Schm. n. 2<)9- 

 Ashanti. B. M. 



t Harma alis repandis, anticis sub apicem subangulatis, flavescentibus limbo tcnui maculaque magna raarginis interni fumosis ; posticis fumosis limbo latiori 

 flavescenti punctis 7 parvis fuscis submarginalibus margine extremo fusco ; alis omnibus sublus dimidio basali luteo albido fuscoque eleganter marmoratis, striga 

 tenui obliqua communi ferruginea submedia et pone strigam fuscis subnebulosis. Expans. alar, anticarum {$) unc. 3^. 



