NYMPHALIDiE. 

 EURYPHENE II. 



EURYPHENE PHRANZA. 7, 8. 



Upperside. Female dark brown. Anterior wing with two circular black spots, 

 a small white spot and a black line within the cell ; crossed beyond the middle by an 

 oblique band of orange-yellow, clouded at its lower extremity and marked by three 

 black spots; the apex white : a spot of blue at the middle of the inner margin. 

 Posterior wing with three circular spots within the cell ; crossed at the middle by a 

 band of green, followed by some indistinct oblong black spots and a submarginal 

 black line. 



Underside brown. Anterior wing brown, paler towards the outer margin, 

 where it is crossed by two indistinct macular bands ; the base, two small spots 

 within the cell, a large spot beyond the middle of the costal margin, the apex, a 

 minute spot near it, and two spots near the middle of the inner margin, all white. 

 Posterior wing with the base brown ; the outer half grey, crossed by two macular 

 bands and an undulated line of rufous brown : two circular spots and a line of black 

 within the cell ; a spot before the middle of the costal margin, and near it three 

 smaller spots of white. 



Exp. 2t% inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In tbe Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



It will be seen that tbe females of the two species now described scarcely differ from each other 

 on the upperside, and are nearly related to E. Soemis of a former Plate. 



