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NYMPHALIS ETHEOCLES. 



PLATE XVII. Fig. 1. 



Pap. Etheocles, Fabr Cramer, PL 119, fig. D, E— Nymph. 



Etheocles, GodarU 



This and the following species present an outline 

 very similar to that of C. Jasius, and they might 

 even, without much impropriety, be referred to the 

 same genus ; but, as there are several points of dif- 

 ference, and as we are yet unacquainted with the 

 caterpillars, it may be preferable in the mean time 

 to allow them to remain in the situation they occu- 

 pied in Latreille's arrangement. 



N. Etheocles is a native of Africa, and is found 

 chiefly on the coast of Guinea. It is nearly of the 

 size of C. Jasius ; the surface greenish-black, with 

 a broad white band running obliquely across the 

 middle of the wings ; on the primary wings this 

 band is divided into spots and contracted anteriorly, 

 having a group of three or four small white spots 

 on the inner side near its origin. Besides the white 

 band, which is regular and continuous, the under 

 wings have a row of white crescents parallel with 

 the hinder border, succeeded by a black line, the 

 border itself of a lighter green than the general 



