PLATE XX.
NYMPHALIS ALTHEA.
Plate [XX]. fig. 1, 2.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Nymphalidæ, Swains.
Genus. Nymphalis, Latr. God. Papilio (Nymphalis), Fabr.
Nymphalis Althea. Alis dentatis suprà fuscis, fasciâ strigâque angulato-dentatis albis; subtùs flavescentibus lituris atris fasciâ strigisque iisdem. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.)
Syn. Papilio (N.) Althea, Fabr. Spec. Ins. 2. p. 88. No. 389. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 113. No. 347. Cramer, pl. 89. fig. E. F.
Nymphalis A., Enc. Méth. ix. p. 383. No. 111.
Habitat: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1775" (Drury's MSS.).