NYMPIIALID^:. 



EPICALIA and MYSCELIA. Boisduvd. 



EPIGALIA SABRINA. 1. 



Upperside deep black, with a broad central band of bright orange, common to both 

 wings, commencing on the middle of the anterior wing, where it is rounded, and ending 

 at the middle of the abdominal fold, narrowest where the wings meet, widest on the pos- 

 terior wing. Obliquely across the apex of the anterior wing a large oval spot of the 

 same colour. 



Underside. Anterior wing, with the base from the inner margin to a little above 

 the median nervure and two-thirds horizontally across, yellow bordered with black, 

 changing into brown on the outer margin ; two small triangular spots of white on the 

 middle of the costa, and a large patch upon it at the apex, chocolate. Posterior wing 

 red-brown, the whole of the upper margin and five narrow belts across it parallel to the 

 outer margin, chocolate colour. A minute spot near the base, and a line which crosses 

 the wing below it, black. 



Expan. 24 in. Hab. Minos Gueres. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



This species is nearly allied to E. Pierretii of Doubleday, which I have figured in the Diurnal 

 Lepidoptera. On the upperside and the underside of the anterior wing they scarcely differ except in 

 shape. 



In E. Pierretii the underside of the posterior wing is also red-brown, but the base, from a line 

 commencing on the middle of the costa, curving inwards, and ending below the middle of the inner 

 margin, is light yellow clouded towards the inner margin, and crossed by two lines of black, one long, 

 parallel to the curved line before described, and the other, near the base, short ; the costal nervure also 

 black ; below the middle of the wing a spot of white, and on the apes two short bands of the same 

 colour. 



EPICALIA SALACIA. 2. 



Upperside deep black, with a broad central band of bright orange commencing 

 near the apex of the anterior wing (where it makes a curve inwards) and ending on 

 the middle of the inner margin, curved outwards where the wings meet, widest on the 

 posterior wing. 



Underside, with the central band but lighter, the space above it, and the apex 



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