NYMPHALID^E. 



ATERICA AND HARM A. 



ATERICA TADEMA. 10, 11, 12. 



Upperside. Male, green-brown, with bands of paler colour. Anterior wins 

 with a round spot within the cell, a band below it, two parallel bands across the cell, 

 one at the end of the cell, a transverse curved band at the middle, and a submarginal 

 band (having its outer border dark brown) all pale green. Posterior wing with a 

 band of green before the middle and a broad band of the same colour beyond the 

 middle traversed by a band of brown spots and bordered outwardly with dark brown. 



Underside ochreous yellow, darkest near the base; both wings crossed before 

 the middle by a pale rufous band (not continuous), both with a band of small In-own 

 spots beyond the middle and a submarginal band of rufous spots. Anterior wine 

 with rufous lines in the cell ; posterior wing with a black spot. 



Eemale, rufous. Anterior wing, with the basal half rufous brown, two brown 

 spots within the cell with rufous border and a pale bifid spot on the inner margin 

 beyond the middle ; the outer half dark brown, crossed by an oblique band of white, 

 four minute white spots, and a submarginal band of dark brown. Posterior wing 

 rufous, darker near the base which is marked with some lines of brown ; crossed 

 beyond the middle (as the male is) by a broad band of paler colour, marked by hastate 

 brown spots, and bordered outwardly by lunular spots of darker brown. Underside 

 as above, but paler and more obscure, except that the posterior wing has a brown spot 

 near the end of the cell. 



Expan. $ 2- 2 -j ? 2^ inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 



The butterfly now figured may be only a variety of A. Veronica of Cramer, from which it however 

 differs very considerably ; whilst Veronica is almost as bright in colour as A. Afer (without the brilliant 

 blue) A. Tadema is on the upperside of an obscure green without the apical white spots. On the 

 underside it is much paler than Veronica, has the band of the posterior wing nearer the base, and is 

 always marked in the cell by a distinct black spot. E. Cserulea, of Boisduval, which he has kindly 

 lent me for comparison, resembles Veronica more closely than Tadema and is also without the 

 apical white spots. 



