NYMPHIDIUM. 41 



Eryrina carica, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 575, no. 53 

 (1823). 



A common South American Butterfly, measuring from i^ to 

 i*4 inches in expanse. The wings are blackish, with a white 

 band covering the hind-wings from the base to beyond the 

 middle, and forming a large triangle, resting on the inner- 

 margin nearly to its base, and extending upwards to the middle 

 of the fore-wing. The broad dark borders are traversed first by 

 an orange-tawny band, and then by a sub-marginal row of large 

 black spots, darker than the ground-colour ; on the dark cos- 

 tal border above the white portion of. the fore-wings, are four 

 large reddish-tawny spots. The sexes differ little, except that 

 the female is rather pa^r, with the white portion of the hind- 

 wings extending to the base, and the fore-wings less acute at 

 the tips than in the male. 



The larva is green, with black dots, a yellow lateral line, 

 and a tuft at the head and tail. The pupa is attached to a 

 leaf by the tail, and a girth around the body. 



The larva feeds on a species of Inga, and like that of a 

 Butterfly allied to Thecla, which feeds on the same plant, is 

 always attended by small black ants. The larva and pupa 

 figured by Madame Merian as those of N. carica cannot be- 

 long to Nymphidium. 



I have figured one of the largest and handsomest species 

 of this genus. 



NYMPHIDIUM ETHELINDA. 

 (Plate XXX 71 II. Fig. 7). 



Nymphidium ethelinda, Hewitson, Entomologist's Monthly 



Magazine, vii. p. 6 (1870) ; id. Exotic Butterflies, iv. 



Nymphidium, pi. 6, figs. 25, 26 (1871). 



This species, which was brought from the province of Minas 



Geraes in Brazil, measures somewhat less than two inches 



across the wings in the male, and rather more in the female. 



