NYMPHALIDjE. 

 ROMAL.EOSOMA IV. 



ROMALiEOSOMA REZIA. 10, 17, 18. 



Upperside. Male, green, with the outer margins broadly In-own. Anterior 

 wing crossed obliquely from near the base to the outer margin by a broad band of 

 dark brown ; crossed obliquely beyond the middle by a quadrifid band of orange 

 yellow ; the apex white ; three small submarginal black spots near the apex. Posterior 

 wing with a submarginal band of dark brown spots. 



Underside grey-green. Both wings with the outer margins rufous-brown, both 

 with a submarginal band of black spots. Anterior wing with the orange-yellow band 

 as above ; three black spots within the cell, two at the end of the cell, and four on the 

 inner border of the said band. Posterior wing with the base pale yellow bordered 

 inwardly with black, and below it a spot and band of black. 



Female, blue-black on the upperside, with the inner margin of the anterior wing 

 and the centre of the posterior wing green. Anterior wing with an obhque band 

 beyond the middle and the apex, white ; posterior wing with a submarginal band of 

 large black spots. On the underside like the male, except that it is of a rufous-grey, 

 that the band of the anterior wing is white, and that the short black band of the 

 posterior wing forms the upper border of a spot of white which is marked by a black 

 spot. 



Expan. $ 3, ? 3-^ inch. Hab. Gaboon. 



In the Collections of W. W. Sauuders and W. C. Hewitson. 



This, though quite distinct from any described species, has considerable resemblance to the one 

 which is figured on the same plate. 



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