NYMPHALIDjE. 



DIADEMA II. 



DIADEMA DOLOMENA. 4. 



Upperside. Female. Anterior wing dark brown traversed from the middle to 

 the apex by rays of black ; crossed beyond the middle by a band of rufous orange ; 

 a large semicircular rufous spot on the inner margin ; six round black spots between 

 the base and the middle, in two parallel lines of three spots each ; the outer spots 

 margined on both sides with white. Posterior wing rufous ; the nervures from the 

 middle to the outer margin, and rays between them, broadly black : marked near the 

 base by eight round black spots. 



Underside as above, except that it is paler, and that the portion which is rufous 

 or brick-red above is here rufous orange. 



Exp. 2-J&- inch. Hah. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



The butterfly now figured being a female, I believed, at first, might be the other sex i 

 D. Hirce of Drury which is a male : but having since received examples of D. Eurytus of Clerck, 

 I find that they are the females of Hirce. 



DIADEMA IMEEINA. 5, G. 



Upperside. Female dark brown. Both wings with a submarginal band of minute 

 white spots. Anterior wing with several spots of pale green ; a tridentate spot at the 

 base, two large oval spots below it, and a band of four spots beyond the middle. 

 Posterior wing dark rufous brown. 



Underside as above, except that it is paler ; the submarginal spots of the 

 anterior wing larger ; that the basal half of the posterior wing is lilac, almost 

 white near the costal margin; the margin itself orange. 



Exp. 2-^q in. Flab. Madagascar. 

 In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



