NYMPHALIDiE. 

 DIADEMA III. 



DIADEMA EURYTUS. 8, 9, 10, 11. 



? P. Eurytus Clerck, plate 31. $ P. Hircc Drury III., plate 28. 



Upperside. Male, dark rufous-brown. Both wings with black spots at the 

 base. Anterior wing with a large spot from the costal margin to the middle of the 

 wing, and a spot beyond the middle towards the apex, orange-rufous : the base 

 tinted with lilac. Posterior wing orange-rufous : the base, the nervures (except near 

 the base), and lines between them and the outer margin, which is broad, all dark 

 brown. 



Underside, as above, but paler. 



Female, fig. 11, does not differ from the male, except that the part which 

 is rufous on the male is white, (the white of the posterior wing not however reaching 

 the middle), that the inner margin near the anal angle is rufous on both sides, 

 and that on the underside the base and costal margin of the posterior wing is 

 orange-rufous. 



Female variety, fig. 8, brown, with the black spots at the base of both wings. 

 Anterior wing tinted with lilac from the base to the middle, where it is crossed by a 

 broad curved band, pale yellow where it commences at the costal margin, orange 

 below darker near the inner margin, where it is crossed by black lines. Posterior 

 wing rufous-orange : the nervures, lines between them, and the outer margin dark 

 brown. 



Hab. Congo. 



Female variety, fig. 9, rufous-brown, the black spots at the base of both wings : 

 both wings rufous at the base : both with the nervures, lines between them, and the 

 outer margins dark brown. Posterior wing pale ochreous-yellow. 



Underside paler, especially on the anterior wing. 



Hab. Calabar. 



In a former part of this work I gave a dozen figures, which, with a single 

 exception, I have little doubt represent one species only, the Acraea Euryta, and I 

 now give in confirmation of my belief the Diadema Eurytus, which in its typical 

 form (as well as in the few varieties with which we are acquainted) so closely resembles 





