N YMPHALID M. 

 SIDERONE. 



SIDERONE ARCHIDONA. 1, 2. 



Upperside. Male, rufous-orange, the outer margins black. Anterior wing 

 falcate : the black of the outer margin widest in the middle, where it incloses three 

 rufous spots. Posterior wing with the outer margin traversed by a black line, and 

 intersected by indistinct rufous spots, its inner border undefined and undulated. 



Underside grey-brown, with several rufous patches, each divided by darker 

 colour into numerous minute spots. Both wings crossed by a narrow band of black 

 from the apex of the anterior wing to the middle of the abdominal fold of the 

 posterior wing. Each wing with a curved brown line near the outer margin ; each 

 marked by some irregular black spots. Anterior wing with two silver spots on the 

 rufous space near the base, and several similar spots nearly covering a triangular 

 rufous space near the middle of the costal margin. 



Posterior wing with some silver spots just below the transverse band. 



Expan. 4$, in. Hab. Archidona. 



In the Collection of the British Museum. 



3 p 



