Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 2

by Dru Drury

PLATE XVIII.

NYMPHALIS CADMA.

Plate [XVIII]. fig. 1, 2.

Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Nymphalidæ, Leach.

Genus. Nymphalis, Latr. God. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.), Drury.

Nymphalis Cadma. Alis denticulatis luteis, anticis utrinque areâ apicis nigrâ, maculis duabus flavescentibus; posticis subtùs ocellis duobus cœruleis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc.)

Syn. Papilio (Nymph. Gemm.) Cadma, Drury, App. vol. 2. Fabricius Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 241. No. 751. (Papilio Sat. C.) Enc. Méth. ix. p. 421. (Nymphalis C.)

Habitat: Jamaica.

Upper Side. Antennæ black. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown. Wings tawny yellow. The anterior having the extreme parts, near the tips, black; with two yellowish spots thereon, joining the anterior edges; also a round black spot situated at the lower corners on the posterior edges. Posterior wings immaculate, except a black streak placed on the anterior edges next the upper corners.