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
coeruleis. (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.
_Under Side._ Tongue black. Breast, legs, and abdomen ash-coloured. The
superior wings marked and coloured as on the upper side, but less
distinctly. Posterior wings tawny orange, having a broad ash-coloured bar
crossing them from the anterior to the abdominal edges. On this bar are
placed two eyes, with double pupils; the lower one being of a fine blue
with a yellow iris; the upper one, next the anterior edges, blue and
black, with a brown iris. Margins of the wings dentated.
{35}VANESSA TEREA.
Plate XVIII. fig. 3, 4.