NYMPH ALID.E EURYPHENE. 



EURYPHENE LESBONAX. 5, 6. 



Upperside glossy green ; the outer margins pale brown. Anterior wing 

 with the apical half purple, crossed near the costal margin by a short band of 

 green, and near the outer margin by a band of indistinct black spots. Posterior 

 wing with the outer margin purple, broadest near the apex, where it is marked by 

 two or three black spots. 



UNDERsmE orange-yellow, clouded with darker colour. Both wings crossed 

 by a common band of red brown, tinted on the anterior wing with purple, marked on 

 the posterior wing at the costal margin by a pale yellow spot : both wings with a 

 submarginal zigzag band of black : both rufous from the apex to the middle of the 

 outer margin. Anterior wing with a broad bifid band of red brown near the base, 

 and beyond it several zigzag black lines. Posterior wing with some small spots 

 near the base, and a central rufous spot beyond the band, with, between it and the 

 costal margin, three small lunular spots of the same colour, followed by a band of 

 black linear spots. 



Expan. 2-j% in. Hab. Niger. 



In the Collection of the British Museum. 



