NYMPHALID^E. 



NYMPHALIS AND AGRIAS. 



AGRIAS PHALCIDON. 1, 2. 



Upperside dark blue from the base to beyond the middle (except the cell, 

 which is black) followed by a band of green, broadest on the anterior wing, sinuate 

 inwardly on the posterior wing ; the outer margins black, broadest at the apex. 

 Anterior wing with a line of three indistinct white spots across the apex. 



Underside black. Anterior wing, with the costal margin at the base, rufous ; 

 a curved band across the apex, and two or three lines following the discoidal nervrdes 

 of a yellow-green. Posterior wing crossed by five bands ; the first, rufous-yellow, 

 commences at the costal margin near the base, and runs parallel to the body until 

 it joins the fourth band ; the second also commences at the costal margin, crosses 

 the cell and, making a curve downwards, ends there ; the third begins near the 

 costal margin, bends downwards, and again upwards, nearly in the form of an S ; 

 the fourth and fifth bands, which run parallel to each other and the outer margin, 

 inclose between them a row of eight light blue spots ; the costal and outer margin, a 

 triangular spot between the second and third band, and the abdominal fold (which 

 is traversed by a black line) all light green. 



Expan. 3 in. Hab. Amazon. 



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



This, another of the many new and beautiful species for which we are indebted to the untiring 

 enthusiasm of Mr. Bates, is remarkably different in its colours from the other species of Agrias, and 

 at once points out its resemblance in that respect to Callithea Leprieurii. Mr. Bates tells me that he 

 has taken another new and even more beautiful Agrias than that now figured, which I hope to have 

 the pleasure of adding to these illustrations. 





