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wings more ovate than in Nymphalis, less prominent in apical 

 region : hind-margin very slightly scalloped, tailed only at 

 extremity of first median nervule the tail being short, but 

 broader than in Nymphalis, sub-spatulate, and somewhat 

 inclining outwards; anal angle more marked, being less 

 rounded ; inner-margins as in Nymphalis. Legs stout, and 

 of moderate length. Abdomen small, slender, short, ovate 

 in ?. 



This limited African Genus has a single representative 

 South of the tropic of Capricorn. 



This Butterfly is a large and handsome insect, inhabiting 

 the outskirts of woods, and is by no means uncommon where 

 it occurs. The possession of but one tail on the hind-wing, 

 at the extremity of the first median nervule, at once dis- 

 tinguishes it from the species of Nymphalis ; for although 

 the male of N. Neanthes, Hewits. (and probably also of N. 

 Zoolina, Westw.) has, as already described, but one tail 

 that appendage is situated at the extremity of the third 

 median nervule. 



105. Philognoma Varanes. 



Papilio Varanes, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 160, f. D, E ; 



[pi. 388, f. A, B. 



Drury, III. Nat. Hist., Ill, pi. 31, f. 1, 8. 

 Fab., Spec. Ins., II. p. 14, n. 55. 



Herbst, Nat. Bek. Ins.Schmett., IV, 



[pi. 56, f. 3, 4, 5. 



Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 66, n. 206. 

 Coe'a Varanessa, Hilbn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., n. 442. 

 Nymphalis Varanes, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 304, n. 48. 

 Expands 3 in. 2 lin. 3 in. 8 lin. 



Rich-ferruginous, spotted with warm orange-ochreous ; basal 

 portion of fore-wing pale-yellowish shading into orange- 

 ochreous, of hind-wing, silky-white. Fore-wing: narrowly 

 white on inner-margin, gradually shading through dull-yellow 

 into orange-ochreous, which latter colour occupies middle ; 

 three short, transverse, ferruginous marks, on the ochreous 

 portion one just beyond extremity of discoidal cell another 

 between first and second median nervules, below, and slightly 

 beyond, the first mark the third between second and third 

 median nervules, vertically in a line with the first mark ; 

 outer half of wing dark-ferruginous, which colour com- 

 mences abruptly just beyond the three marks described, 

 indenting the orange-ochreous between median nervules; 

 beyond middle, two transverse rows of orange-ochreous 



