PLATE XVII. Fig. 1.
Pap. Etheocles, _Fabr._--_Cramer_, Pl. 119, fig. D, E.--Nymph.
Etheocles, _Godart_.
This and the following species present an outline very similar to
that of _C. Jasius_, and they might even, without much impropriety,
he referred to the same genus; but, as there are several points of
difference, and as we are yet unacquainted with the caterpillars, it
may he preferable in the mean time to allow them to remain in the
situation they occupied in Latreille’s arrangement.
_N. Etheocles_ is a native of Africa, and is found chiefly on the
coast of Guinea. It is nearly of the size of _C. Jasius_; the surface
greenish-black, with a broad white band running obliquely across the
middle of the wings; on the primary wings this band is divided into
spots and contracted anteriorly, having a group of three or four small
white spots on the inner side near its origin. Besides the white band,
which is regular and continuous, the under wings have a row of white
crescents parallel with the hinder border, succeeded by a black line,
the border itself of a lighter green than the general ground colour,
and having a few rust-coloured crescent-shaped marks. On the under side
the prevailing colour is pale brown, somewhat glossy, with a white band
similar to that described; three ocellated spots are observable at the
base of the upper wings, and in the same situation on the other pair
are three black transverse lines edged with blue. The internal angle of
the superior wings bears a double black spot, and a series of violet
lunules runs along the hinder border of the under wings; the border
itself green marked with a row of black points.