NYMPHALIDjE NYMPH ALIS. 



white spots, runs parallel to and not far from the outer margin (the spots minute). 

 The bands of spots on the posterior wing are beyond the middle, nearly parallel to 

 each other and the outer margin. Some of the spots nearest the margin almost 

 white. 



Underside variegated with green and brown. Anterior wing with the base 

 light green, marked with three black spots. Crossed before the middle by a broad 

 irregular band of brown-green, margined on both sides with spots of black, the said 

 spots themselves margined outside with white. A large triangular spot of brown- 

 green from the costal margin to the middle ; two white spots touching it ; two large 

 black spots near the anal angle. Posterior wing with a lunular spot and short band 

 of black and white near the base. Crossed obliquely before the middle by a broad 

 brown-green band, margined on both sides with black or white; followed by a curved 

 band of lunular white spots, by a similar band of brown spots, and again, near the 

 margin, by bands of spots of white, lilac, and black (touching each other), and on the 

 margin by some indistinct bifid rufous spots. 



Female. Anterior wins light brown from the base to the middle, where it is 

 crossed by a broad band of white ; two white spots near the apex, followed by two 

 or three others which are indistinct. Posterior wing light brown. The outer margin 

 broadly brown, with a submarginal row T of round spots (half white, half lilac), and 

 some triangular rufous spots. Underside as in the male, except that the white central 

 band is repeated below. 



Expan. i 3,- in., ? 3$, in. Hab. Sierra Leone. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



This species is. in both sexes, exactly similar to N. TiridateS on the upper siJe ; below it is 

 abundantly distinct. 



