NYMPHALIDjE. 

 ATERICA AND EURYPHENE. 



ATERICA AMPEDUSA. 3, 4, 5. 



Upperside. Male rufous-brown. Anterior wing with the outer half dark 

 brown ; the cell rufous, marked by two brown spots bordered with black ; crossed 

 at the middle and beyond it by three rufous bands. Posterior wing crossed at the 

 middle by an indistinct band of brown, and beyond the middle by a broad rufous 

 band traversed by a band of lunular spots, and below them by a second band of 

 oblong spots. 



Underside nearly as above, but paler; anterior wing with the transverse bands, 

 and the spaces between them, near the costal margin and the apex, white or lilac ; 

 posterior wing clouded with lilac : crossed longitudinally near the costal margin by a 

 band of paler colour. 



Female like the male, except that the anterior wing is crossed obliquely near the 

 middle by a band of white, that there is between it and the apex a curved band of 

 four minute white spots, and that the apex is white and the outer margin spotted with 

 white. 



Expan. t 1-!%, $ 2^- inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Heveitson 



This is, I have little doubt, the P. Auge of Donovan's " Insects of India," plate 30, but does no; 

 at all agree with the Fabrician descripton " fasciis viridibus." 



ATERICA ARIDATHA. 6, 7. 



Upperside. Female rufous-brown. Anterior wing, except near the base, dark 

 brown : the cell marked by four bands of darker brown ; crossed beyond the middle 

 by a broad band of yellow with between it and the apex a curved band of four 

 minute white spots ; a submarginal band of dark brown. Posterior wing crossed 

 before the middle by a band of dark brown, and beyond the middle by a band of 

 oblong ochreous spots with their centre and lower border dark brown. 



Underside as above, except that it is paler, the spots in the cell of the 

 anterior wing bordered with lilac : that the base of the posterior wing is rufous-brown, 

 marked in its middle and outer border by spots of lilac and white ; that the spots of 

 the band are marked at their upper extremities with white ; and that the outer 

 margin is spotted with white. 



Expan. 2i inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



