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NYMPHALIS ETHEOCLES. 

 PLATE XVII. Fig. 1. 



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

 Etheocles, GodarL 



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. EtheocUs 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 



