Under Side. Palpi white. Legs white. Breast yellowish. Abdomen olive-brown. Wings dusky orange; the white spots described on the upper side being here very discernible with the addition of a few others next the body. Margins of the wings entire.
NYMPHALIS (CHARAXES) ANTICLEA.
Plate [XXVII]. fig. 5, 6.
Order: Lepidoptera, Linn. Section: Diurna, Latr. Family: Nymphalidæ, Swains.
Genus. Nymphalis, Latr. Papilio (Eq. achiv.), Linn. Drury. Papilio Nymphalis, Fabr. (Subgenus: Charaxes, Boisduval.)
Nymphalis (Charaxes) Anticlea. Alis suprà fuscis fasciâ terminali fulvâ, in anticis maculari et abbreviatâ, in posticis ocellis 4, anali sesquialtero. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 9 lin.)
Syn. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Anticlea, Drury, App. vol. 3.
Nymphalis Ant., Enc. Méth. ix. p. 353. No. 9.
Habitat: Sierra Leone (Drury, in text). "Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonifas, 1766" (Drury's MSS.).
Upper Side. Antennæ black. Thorax and abdomen dark brown. Anterior wings chocolate-coloured; the lower corners being tipped with orange, to the upper part of which joins a spot of the same colour, and another small one is placed nearer the tips. The basal parts of the posterior wings chocolate, the apical parts orange; they are doubly angulated, and at the abdominal corners have a black ocellus with two white pupils, and a small orange spot below them; three other small eyes are also placed along the external edges.