NYMPHALINiE. 



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Under side. — Brownish-red, as in Veronica, with some paler transverse 

 strife ; beyond middlej as in Veronica, a transverse series of small 

 whitish dots. 



The above description is adapted from Boisduval's brief diagnosis. lu 

 1867 the late Mr. W. C. Hewitson showed me a specimen which had been lent 

 to him by Boisduval, and I noted at the time that it seemed to agree very fairly 

 with the characters noted in the Appendix to Delegorgue's Voyage, but had 

 not au opportunity of fully describing it.^ The Veronica of Cramer [Pap. Exot, 

 iv. t. cccxxv., c, d), with which Boisduval compares E. coerulea, is a native of 

 Western Africa, placed doubtfully in the genus Aterica by "Westwood, and in 

 the pattern of the under side having apparently some resemblance to H. Dceda- 

 lus, Fab. ( = Meleagris, Cram.), with which, indeed, Hiibner associates it in his 

 genus Hamamimida. 



Locality of Euryphene cmrulea. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — " Port Natal." — Boisduval. 



Genus HAMANUMIDA. 



Hamamimida, Hiibn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 18 (18 16). 

 Aterica (part), Westw., Gen, Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 286 (1850); Trim., Ehop. 

 Afr. Aust., i. p. 156 (1862). 



Imago. — Head not quite so broad as thorax, hairy in front; eyes 

 smooth ; palpi short, not or very slightly convergent, projecting for- 

 ward, rising to about a level with top of head, — basal joint with a tuft 

 of hair beneath, — second joint long, scaly, hairy superiorly and along 

 inner edge, — terminal joint very short, scaly ; antennce of moderate 

 length, with a well-marked but elongate sub-cylindrical club, blunt and 

 rounded at its tip. 



Thorax robust, rather long, clothed with a fine close down, and 

 finely hairy posteriorly (especially on back). Fore-whigs : in ^ sub- 

 acuminate, in ^ scarcely prominent, apically ; costa moderately arched ; 

 hind-margin almost imperceptibly concave about middle, scarcely 

 sinuate ; inner margin almost straight ; costal nervure strong, its 

 extremity not far beyond middle ; first and second subcostal nervules 

 originating near each other, before extremity of discoidal cell, — third 

 one very short, originating not far from apex (where it terminates), — 

 fourth extremely short, originating half way between base of third and 

 apex (a little below which it terminates) ; upper disco-cellular nervule 

 exceedingly short, — second one short, oblique, strongly curved, — third 

 long, well-developed, slightly angulated about its middle, joining third 



^ Hewitson {Exot. Butt, iii. p. 53, 1866) notes as follows, viz. : — " K cccrulea, of Bois- 

 duval, which he has kindly lent me for comparison, resembles Veronica more closely than 

 Tadema" [described by Hewitson as an Aterica], "and is also without the apical white 

 spots." 



