[Illustration] NYMPHALIS (CHARAXES) TIRIDATES. Plate XXIII. fig. 1, 2. ORDER: Lepidoptera, _Linn._ SECTION: Diurna, _Latr._ FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swainson_. GENUS. NYMPHALIS, _Latr._ Papilio (Eq. achiv.) _Linn. Drury._ Papilio Nymphalis, _Fabr._ (SUBGENUS: Charaxes, _Boisduval_.) NYMPHALIS (CHARAXES) TIRIDATES. Alis supra atro-coeruleis, margine postico lunulis ochraceis, omnium dimidio apicali punctis coerulescentibus. (Expans. Alar. 4 unc. 3 lin.) SYN. Papilio (N.) Tiridates, _Fabr. Spec. Ins._ 2. _p._ 11. _No._ 43. _Cramer_, _pl._ 162. _f._ A. B. _Herbst. Pap._ _tab._ 62. _f._ 3. 4. _Donovan Ins. India_, 3. _pl._ 2. _f._ 3. Nymphalis T., _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 354. 14. HABITAT: Amboyna, Java (_Fabr. & Enc. Méth._). Brazil (_Drury_, in text). "Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonifas, 1766" (_Drury's_ MSS.). {33}_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Head dark brown, with four white spots on the crown. Thorax and abdomen dark brown. Wings fine dark blue, with a number of small light blue spots sprinkled on each wing. The anterior being edged with a row of yellow spots. Posterior wings furnished with four short tails and deeply scolloped, each scollop being edged with yellow. _Under Side._ Palpi and abdomen clay-coloured. Breast and legs light hair-coloured. Anterior wings hair-coloured, with several small waved and irregular black lines half crossing them, from the anterior edges to the middle of the wing, each line being edged with blue. A black kidney-shaped spot is also situate next the lower corners, being also edged with blue. Posterior wings coloured as the anterior, and furnished with four short tails, having several irregular black lines on them near the body, which are edged with blue as on the anterior ones. NYMPHALIS PYRAMUS [male]. Plate XXIII. fig. 3, 4. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains._ GENUS. NYMPHALIS, _Latr._ Papilio (Pleb. rur.), _Drury_. NYMPHALIS PYRAMUS. Alis nigris (in mare supra violaceo-micantibus) anticis utrinque fasciâ latâ miniatâ: posticis subtus irroratis strigâque marginali coerulescenti. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 7½ lin.) SYN. Papilio Pyramus, _Fabr. Sp. Ins._ 2. 130. 590. _Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 323. 223. Papilio (Pleb. rur.) Pyramus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Stoll Suppl. Cramer_, _pl._ 32. _f._ 3. 3e. _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 422. (Nymphalis P.) _Donovan Nat. Repos._ 1. _t._ 3. _f._ 2. 2. HABITAT: Brazil, "Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonifas, 1774" (_Drury's_ MSS.). _Upper Side._ Antennæ brown. Thorax and abdomen dark brown. Anterior wings at the extremities black, but next the body red-brown, the middle being occupied by a band which crosses them of a beautiful red, extending to the middle of the posterior ones, the remaining parts of which are of a fine blueish purple.