NYMPHALID.E ATERICA AND EURYPHENE. 



ATERICA ABASA. 



Upperside. Female obscure rufous-brown. Anterior wing with some bands of 

 darker brown in the cell ; crossed obliquely beyond the middle by a quinquefid band 

 of ochreous yellow and near the apex by four minute white spots. Posterior wing 

 crossed before the middle by an obscure band of darker brown, and beyond the 

 middle by a band of obscure pale brown conical spots with their centres and lower 

 border brown. 



Underside as above, but slightly paler; the base of the posterior wing to the 

 first band rather darker than the rest of the wing ; the band of conical spots scarcely 

 seen, their upper extremities represented by a nearly straight line of white spots. 



Expan. 2 T 7 jy inches. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



Very closely allied to A. Aridatha, from which it differs in its very obscure colouring, the greater 

 length and different shape of the fund of the anterior wing, the position of the minute white spots 

 which are nearer the apex ; and on the underside by wanting the lilac and white spots which adorn the 

 other species. 



EURYPHENE TENTYRIS. 21, 22. 



Upperside. Male brown. Both wings crossed at and beyond the middle by 

 three oblique rufous bands. Anterior Aving tinted with blue near the costal margin : 

 the cell marked by spots and lines of black ; posterior wing with two spots in the 

 cell bordered with black. 



Undekside rufous, crossed by the bands as above, but much less distinct, the 

 second and third composed of minute spots : posterior wing with a dentate white 

 spot before the middle of the costal margin, and a minute spot of the same colour 

 lower down. 



Expan. 1 J 2 ,, inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



I think that this may prove to be the male of E. Absolon. 



EURYPHENE OXIONE. 



Upperside. Male rufous-brown. Both wings crossed by three rufous waved 

 bands. Anterior wing with three lines and a bifid spot of dark brown within the 

 cell, a similar bifid spot at the end of the cell, and a short rufous band near the base : 

 posterior wing with a rufous band near the base. 



Underside rufous : some of the bands of the upperside indicated by curved 

 lines and spots indistinctly seen. Both wings crossed (from the apex of the anterior 

 wing to the middle of the inner margin of the posterior wing) by a common straight 

 rufous-brown bund. 



Expan. 2 ,'-„ inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



Very nearly allied to E. Absolon, from which it differs in the greater obscurity of colouring of the 

 upperside and the baud of the underside. 



