EURYTELA. ERGOLIS. 



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This is a genus chiefly composed of African species, generally of black colours varied with white spots on the wings, thus closely 

 resembling some of the species of Limenitis and Neptis, from which, however, they may at once be known by the dilated condition of 

 the base of the costal vein of the fore wings. There is considerable difference in the form of the wings of the various species ; the 

 type, E. Hiarbas, having the fore wings angulated, whilst they are simply scalloped in E. Ophione. On the under side the wings of 

 E. Hiarbas are pale brown, considerably varied with chestnut-coloured markings, edged with fine lines of greyish scales, and with the 

 white fascia of the upper sides reproduced beneath. The under side of E. Ophione resembles the upper, except that the ground 

 colour of the wings is pale greyish brown, with the base of the fore wings more varied with white spots, and all the wings marked 

 beyond the middle with a row of round black spots. 



EURYTELA. 



1. Eur. Dryope. 



Papilio Dryope Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 107. n. 469-, 

 Enl. Syst. in. pt. 1. p. 146. n. 793. ; Cramer, Pap. 

 pi. 78. f. E. F. ; Godart, Enc. M. ix., Suppl. p. 824. 

 n. 5.-6 b. 



Precis Dryope Hiibner, Verx. bek Schm. n. 275. 

 Congo, Ashanti, Guinea, Madagascar. B. M. 



2. Eur. Hiarbas. 



Papilio Hiarbas Drury, III. in. t. 14. f. 1, 2. 



Papilio Hiarba Fabricius, Enl. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 128. n. 



^91' ; Jones, Icones, v. t. 79- f- 2.; Donovan, Ins. of 



India, pi. 32. f. 3. ; Godart, Enc. M. ix., Suppl. p. 



824. n. 5 — 6 a. ; Doiibl. Westw. S; Hewits. Gen. D. 



Lep. pi. 31. f. 4. 

 Ashanti, Sierra Leone, Caffraria. B. M. 



3. Eur. Ethosea. 



Papilio Ethosea Drury, III. iii. t. 37. f. C D. ; Godart, 

 Enc. M. IX. p. 235. n. 17. (Acrsea Eth.) 

 Ashanti, Guinea. B. M. 



4. Eur. Ophione. 



Papilio Ophione Cramer, Ins. t. 114. f. E. F. 



Neptis Ophione, ante, p. 272. (cum synonymis). 

 Eurytela Morgani E. Doubl. MS. ; Doubt. Westw. ij 

 Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 31. f. 5. 

 Western Africa, Sierra Leone, Cape Palmas. B. M. 



5. Eur. Valentina. 



Papilio Valentina Cramer, Ins. t. 327. f. C. D. 

 Neptis Valentina, ante, p. 272. 

 Guinea. 



6. Eur. fui.gurata. 



Libvthea fulgurata Boisduval, Faun. Ent. Madag. p. 52. 

 pi. 8. f. 5. 

 Madagascar. 



7. EUB. HoRSFIEI.nil. 



Eurytela Horsfieklii Boisd. in Faun. Ent. Madag. SjC. 

 p. 54. 

 Java. 



8. Eur. Stephensii. 



Eurytela Stephensii Boisd. in Faitn. Ent. Madag. ^-c. 

 p. 55. 

 Java. 



Genus VI. ERGOLIS. 



Ergolis Boisduval. 

 Elymnias p. HUbner. 

 BiBLis p. God'. 

 Ariadne Hor.^field. 



Body moderate-sized ; wings large, broad, thickly ornamented above with numerous slender, dark, undulating lines. 

 Head small, clothed with short scaly hairs. 

 Eyes moderate-sized, naked. 



Labial Palpi porrected, but slightly curved, extending considerably beyond the length of the head, and not 

 elevated above the middle of the eyes ; the terminal joint a little deflexed at the tip, parallel, finely hairy 

 beneatli, the upper edge with a ridge of short hairs from the middle to the end ; terminal joint elongate-oval, 

 slender. 

 Antenna; slender, about two fifths of the length of the fore wings ; terminated by a very slight and gradually 

 formed club, obtuse at the tip, and not more than double the tiiickness of the basal part of the antenna?. 

 Thoeax oval, -woolly in front. 



Fore Wings large, well arched along the costal margin. Apical margin irregularly waved, about two thirds of 

 the length of the costal. Inner margin nearly straight, about one fourth longer than the apical, so that the 

 wing appears nearly truncate at the tip. Veins arranged nearly as in the preceding genera. The costal dilated 

 at the base. The upper disco-cellular very short, oblique; the extremity of the discoidal vein extending 

 into the most prominent of the angulations of the fore wings : lower disco-cellular considerably longer, curved 

 at its base ; its extremity directed outwards longitudinally, forming the base of the lower discoidal vein : lower 

 disco-cellular vein very slender, nearly transverse, uniting with the third branch of the median vein just 

 beyond its origin, closing the discoidal cell at about one third of the length of the wing. 



