GENUS. NYMPHALIS, _Schrank. Latr. God. Boisd._ Papilio (Dan. Cand.),
_Linn, &c._
NYMPHALIS CÆNIS. Alis subrotundatis albis, margine postico et ante hunc
marginem lineâ angulatâ maculisque nigris; subtus omnibus strigâ communi
brunneâ. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 9 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Dan. Cand.) Cænis, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. _Encycl. Méth._
ix. _p._ 142. _No._ 85. (Pieris C.)
Nymphalis amphiceda, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. 113. _No._ 348. [female].
_Cramer_, _pl._ 146. D. E. _Enc. Méth._ ix. 384. 113.
HABITAT: Calabar, Africa.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Eyes red brown. Thorax greenish. Abdomen
sooty brown. Wings white, having a narrow border running along the
external edges of a soot brown; over which is an indented, angulated,
black line, appearing in some places like two points of arrows united.
Along the anterior edges of the anterior wings also runs an exceeding
narrow black line.
_Under Side._ Palpi, breast, sides, and legs white. Wings white; being
divided as it were by a brown line, which, beginning near the middle of
the anterior edges of the anterior wings, and crossing them and the
posterior, meets near the abdominal corners. The inner part of the
division having many brown lines thereon, shaped like angles, circles,
&c. A faint angulated brown line runs along the external edges of all the
wings; whereon are some short faint brown streaks placed on the upper
angles. The wings are a little dentated.