N YMPHAL1D M. 

 ROMAL.EOSOMA. III. 



ROMAL/EOSOMA ADONINA. 11, 12. 



Uppf.rside. Female ochreous -yellow, broadly bordered with dark brown : the 

 base of both wings carmine. Anterior wing with a black spot in the cell ; the outer hall 

 dark brown, with a large qnadritid spot of ochreous-yellow. Posterior wing with an 

 oblong spot of brown at the end of the cell. 



Underside green-yellow. Both wings with the margins dark brown, the outer 

 margins with lunular white spots ; both with a submarginal band of conical blue-black 

 spots ; both with a spot of carmine near the base. Anterior wing with a minute brown 

 spot on the carmine, two blue-black spots in the cell, and a transverse band of five 

 conical spots beyond the middle, four of which are dark brown, the fifth irroratcd with 

 yellow and indistinct. Posterior wing with the base and four spots beyond the 

 carmine blue-black. 



Expan. 3-nj inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



This may he a variety of R. Themis. On the upperside the difference is one of colour only. On 

 the underside the carmine at the hase of the posterior wing is in E. Themis nearer to the hase. 



ROMALiEOSOMA CUTTEPJ. 13, 14, 15. 



Upperside. Male dark brown. Anterior wing with several undefined black 

 spots near the base ; a large ochreous clouded oblique spot near the apex, and a spot 

 of green (marked by two black spots) before the middle of the inner margin. Poste- 

 rior wing with the centre green marked at the end of the cell by a black linear spot. 



Underside. Anterior wing green-brown : the cell blue-green, with three spots 

 and a line of blue-black : two spots of brown below them ; crossed at the middle by 

 a band of four black spots, and beyond them by a spot of pale yellow. Posterior wing 

 green-yellow clouded with brown at the apex ; the base yellow, followed by seven black 

 spots and a transverse broad band of brown ; both wings with a submarginal band of 

 brown spots. 



