GENUS. Nymphalis, _Latr. God._ Papilio (Nymph. Phal.), _Drury_.
NYMPHALIS LAURE. Alis suprà nigris; fasciâ mediâ anticarum fulvâ
interruptâ; posticarum albâ, et a latere coeruleo nitidâ. (Expans. Alar.
2 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Laure, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
Papilio (Nymph.) Laura, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 134. _No._ 415.
Nymphalis Laure, _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 376.
HABITAT: The Bay of Honduras, _Drury_.
{34}_Upper Side._ Antennæ brown. Thorax and abdomen brown. Anterior wings
fine ochre brown; having two faint, dark, indented lines running along
the external edges. An oblong yellow spot is placed on the anterior
margins near the tips. Three others, one being small, are situated near
the middle of the wings; beginning at the anterior edges and reaching
almost to the posterior, where it becomes white. Posterior wings ochre
brown; but when held in a certain position exhibiting a fine purplish
blue. A white bar crosses these wings obliquely from the middle of the
anterior edges, and meets a little below the body. Two indented black
lines are placed on the external edges, running from the upper to the
abdominal corners, where are placed two small crescent-like blue spots or
lines, one double, the other single.
_Under Side._ Palpi, breast, and legs white. Anterior wings having some
short black irregular lines placed cross-ways, and some brown orange
marks near the shoulders. Three small triangular black spots are placed
at a little distance from the external edges, near the lower corners;
above which is a brownish patch resembling polished metal. Posterior
wings entirely of the colour of polished metal, except the external edges
which are ash colour; and a white bar running from the middle of the
anterior edges to the abdominal corners. All the wings are deeply
angulated.
Latreille and Godart question whether this be not the female of Nymphalis
Laurentia, of which they had only seen the males.