N Y MPHALIDjE ROMALiEOSOJIA. 



ROMAL^EOSOMA RAVOLA. 19, 20. 



Upperside. Male, blue-black ; the inner margin of the anterior wing and the 

 posterior wing green ; anterior wing crossed ol)liquely beyond the middle by a band of 

 orange bordered on each side with green. Posterior wing with a submarginal row 

 of black spots ; the outer margin brown. 



Underside. Anterior wing green clouded with brown, the band of orange as 

 above ; three large spots within the cell, two at the end of the cell, five forming a 

 transverse band in the middle and a band of indistinct submarginal spots, all black. 

 Posterior wing ochreous and orange-yellow, green near the base, where it is marked by 

 a bifid band of black, and below it by a shorter band, by two spots within and one at 

 the end of the cell, and below these by three indistinct spots of the same colour ; a 

 submarginal band of eight large black spots; the outer margin brown. 



Expan. 3-j% inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



This species is easily known from all those most nearly allied to it, by having its body very 

 robust, and spotted with white, and comes into Mr. Westwood's first section of the genus with R. 

 Zampa, and Perseis. 



My specimens of R. Eavola differ a good deal from each other: one has the orange band of tin 

 anterior wing much less oblique than that which is figured and of different form ; on the underside it is 

 much more green, and the spots, though most of them are indicated, are obscure and undefined. 



It may possibly be only a variety of R. Zeuxis, but in all the other species which have the white 

 spots on the body both seses are thus marked. My examples of R. Zeuxis have no such white spots. 



