N YMPHALID JE. 

 ROMALJEOSOMA. II. 



ROMALiEOSOMA RUSPINA. G, 7. 



Upperside. Male (Fig. 7) brick -red ; the costal and outer margins black ; the 

 apex broadly black with an oblong trifid white spot. Posterior wing with the outer 

 margin broadly black, traversed by a band of seven white spots. 



Underside as above, except that there are two or three obscure white spots 

 below the apex, and that the border of the abdominal fold is white. 



Female differs only in form, and in having the apical white spot larger. 



Exp. $ 2-^, ? 3^ inches. Hab. Old Calabar. 



hi the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



This species, although very closely allied to R. Eleus. is abundantly distinct. The posterior 

 wing is of a different form ; the apical white trifid spot of R. Ruspina is, in Eleus, a band divided 

 into three or four parts. On the underside the difference is more apparent. In this species, the apex 

 of the anterior wing, and the outer margin of the posterior wing, are dark brown, with the inner 

 border sharp and clearly defined : in R. Eleus they are rufous-brown (in some examples not much 

 darker than the rest of the wing) without a defined boundary. Eleus has the costal margin of the 

 posterior wing broadly white, the new species is without it. 



