NYMPHALIDiE. 



NYMPHALIS. LatrciUe. 



NYMPH ALIS NARCLEUS. 1, 1, 



1 I'PERSIDE white, tinted with green on the anterior wing, with yellow on the 

 posterior. Anterior wing with the base clouded with light brown. The costal and 

 outer margins, and a transverse narrow band sinuate on its outer edge and parallel to 

 and at a short distance from the outer margin, brown ; a black longitudinal band, 

 marking the course of the median nervure and its third nervule, joins the transverse 

 band with the clouded space at the base, and is itself joined to the costal margin by a 

 black line across the end of the cell. Posterior wing with two tails ; the base and the 

 upper side of the abdominal fold light brown ; crossed beyond the middle to the anal 

 angle by a band of brown, nearly continuous with the band of the anterior wing ; the 

 outer margin and a row of lunular spots near it brown ; the anal angle marked by 

 two black spots, one oval with a crimson centre, the other round centred with white, 

 both margined above with light blue, below with orange. 



Underside as above, except that both wings are tinted with green, that the 

 margins and bands are bordered with silvery white, that the bases of the wings are 

 unclouded, that there is a rufous band on the posterior wing, which commences on the 

 costal margin near the base, and passing down the upper side of the abdominal fold 

 joins the transverse band at the anal angle, and that the lunular spots near the outer 

 margin and the two spots at the anal angle, described above, are here represented by 

 eight small round black spots. 



Expan. 3-j-o in. Ilab. Chekiang, north of China. 



In the Collection of the British Museum. 



