Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Nymphalidæ, Swains.
Genus. Nymphalis, Latr. Papilio (Nymph. Gemmat.) Drury.
Nymphalis Alphæa. Alis lutescentibus strigis undulatis communibus fuscis, puncto dilutiori anticarum subapicali, subtùs brunneis fasciis nigricantibus. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 3 lin.)
Syn. Papilio (Nymph.) Alphæa, Drury, App. vol. 3.
Habitat: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1776" (Drury's MSS.).
Upper Side. Antennæ, head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown. Wings clay-coloured, with only a light spot on the anterior ones near the tips, and a number of small faint waved lines crossing the wings from the anterior to the posterior and abdominal edges.
Under Side. Palpi long, grey brown. Breast and abdomen the same. Wings rather darker than on the upper side, being of a reddish brown. The two spots on the anterior wings are more conspicuous on this side than the other; and the waved lines here become bars in the posterior wings of a darker colour than the general ground, having two conspicuous ones, the lowest being the broadest. Margins of the wings slightly dentated.
NYMPHALIS DORICLÆA.
Plate [XXXVI]. fig. 5, 6.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Nymphalidæ, Swains.