According to Mr. Smeathman this species was taken at some distance inland upon the continent of Africa; adding, "there are several Papiliones nearly of this colour, that is to say, with the upper sides of the wings having a changeable purple, and the under sides being inclinable to green, sometimes with marks of the most beautiful crimson. The differences between them arise so gradually, that he thinks them varieties of the same species, some, apparently very different, being found coupled together. They are all found congregating in the paths, and in the thick shade of a forest, ten or a dozen in a circle round a little puddle or moist spot, and seem to like the most gloomy places." {30}HESPERIA IPHIS. Plate XV. fig. 3, 4. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Hesperiidæ, _Steph._ GENUS. HESPERIA, _Latr. God._ Papilio (Pleb. Urbic.) _Linn. &c._ HESPERIA IPHIS. Alis supra viridi-atris; infra aureo-virescentibus venis margineque postico nigris, capite sanguineo. (Expans. Alar. 4 unc.) SYN. Papilio (Pleb. Urb.) Iphis, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. Hesperia (Urb.) Jupiter, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 336. _No._ 279. _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 733. (Hesperia J.) Papilio Phidias, _Cram. pl._ 244. A. B. HABITAT: Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Anamaboe, and the Bight of Benin, on the Coast of Africa. _Upper Side._ Antennæ thickest in the middle. Head scarlet. Thorax and abdomen black. All the wings green brassy-coloured, the nerves black, those parts that surround the body being of a raven black. The tips of the anterior wings orange-coloured. _Under Side._ Palpi scarlet and hairy, the extremities being small and black. Breast, legs, sides, and abdomen black. Anus scarlet. Wings of a yellower brassy hue than on the upper side. Superior wings tipped with orange, but next the body greenish black; the same colour occupying the external edges of the posterior wings. The male differs in having the upper side entirely of a fine raven black without the orange tips; the under side is also darker, and less brassy than the female. Drury states, that when this insect is at rest it sits with its wings erect; and Mr. Smeathman considers it "very remarkable that this insect, which seems an intermediate species between Papilio and Phalæna, associates with the little assemblages of Nymphalis Erithonius, and is frequently seen sipping water with them." PLATE XVI. [Illustration] NYMPHALIS (LIMENITIS) SIBILLA. Plate XVI. fig. 1, 2. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains._ GENUS. NYMPHALIS, _Latr. God._ Papilio (Nymph. Phal.), _Linn. Drury._ Subgenus: Limenitis, _Fabr. Steph._ Naiades, _Hübn._ NYMPHALIS (LIMENITIS) SIBILLA. Alis subdentatis supra atro-coeruleis; fasciâ maculari albâ; posticis subtus basi cinereo-coerulescente immaculatis. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.) SYN. Papilio Sibilla, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ ii. 781.