N Y M PHAL1D M. 

 EURYPHENE III. ATERICA. 



EURYPHENE MILNEI. 12, 13. 



Upperside. Male dark brown. Anterior wins; rufous at the base; crossed 

 near the middle of the costal margin by three short bands of blue (one within the 

 cell), crossed near the apex by four minute white spots. Posterior wing rufous at the 

 base and costal margin, with, near the apex, a short band of three orange spots, each 

 marked by a black spot : a large spot towards the anal angle of blue-black. 



Underside rufous. Both wings crossed beyond the middle by a band of minute 

 black and white spots. Anterior wing below the median nervnre orange yellow 

 marked in the cell by two white spots, and at the middle of the margin by a third 

 similar white spot. Posterior wing with the base darker, marked by a black spot : 

 crossed before the middle by an indistinct lilac band : the apex lilac-white. 



Exp. 2-^ inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 

 In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



1 have named this singular species after Mr. Milne, to whom I feel greatly indebted for th i 

 pleasure of possessing the many beautiful new butterflies figured in the accompanying Plates. 



EURYPHENE PLAUTILLA. 14, 15. 



Upperside. Male dark rufous brown. Both wings crossed by two submargmal 

 bands of black spots. Anterior wing with two spots near the costal margin bordered 

 with black (one within the cell), and beyond them four spots of black ; marked beyond 

 the middle by a minute white spot. Posterior wing dark brown, with a spot at the 

 end of the cell, and two transverse bands of black spots : the outer margin broadly 

 rufous. 



Underside rufous in the centre, rufous orange near the margins. Anterior wing 

 with the two spots as above, in and at the end of the cell : crossed obliquely near 



