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Hah. Ekeikei, March. 

 Type in my collection. 

 The genitalia appear to be identical in all the preceding forms. 



225. Eusphalera splendens spec. nov. 



?. Head, thorax, and antennae brilliant bronzy green, abdomen pale grey, 

 bronzy green laterally and below. Both wings velvety black. Primary with the 

 base bright bronzy blue and golden green for nearly a quarter, and extending along 

 the veins to the narrow creamy white transverse band, crossing the wing obliquely 

 in front of the end of the cell ; band finely edged with metallic bluish green ; a 

 cnrved scalloped snbapical metallic blue stripe from the costa to vein 2, interrupted 

 by the veins. Secondary witli a large inner-marginal pure white patch extending 

 all along the margin, and well over the cell edged with brilliant pale blue, especially 

 in the cell, and more or less tinged with mother-of-pearl ; a slight scaling of metallic 

 blue at the apex. Underside as above, but very strongly suffused with pale 

 metallic blue, and the secondary with a terminal line of metallic blue rising in an 

 apical patch of the same colour. 



Expanse, 49 mm. 



Hab. Kebea Range, 3600 ft., July. 



Type in my collection. 



22Ci. Evtsphalera lutescens spec. nov. 



S. Head and collar metallic blue; thorax sooty black; abdomen yellow; 

 terminal segment finely edged with blackish ; ventral surface creamy. Primary 

 black, with two short sub-basal orange-red dashes ; a chrome-yellow patch on the 

 costa near the end of the coll, extending broadly to near the tornus, but not entirely 

 dividing the wing ; a snbapical steel-blue patch intersected by the veins. Secondary 

 clear chrome-yellow, with a broad black termen, whicli is invaded by the yellow from 

 vein 2 to 5 ; costa narrowly pale grey. Uudersurface as above, except that the 

 costa of the primary is finely steel-blue, and the secondary is encircled with a steel- 

 blue line, broad in parts except along the inner margin. 



Expanse, 46 mm. 



Hob. Ekeikei, March and Ai)ril ; Kebea Range, July. 



Type in my collection. 



227. Eusphalera lutescens ab. alboplagata nov. 



t?. Head and thorax metallic blue; abdomen deep yellow, with terminal 

 segment edged with blackish, ventral surface pale straw-colour. Primary black, with 

 two short snbapical orange-red dashes, and a large whitish costal spot at the end of 

 the cell edged indefinitely and obscurely with steel-blue, with a small canary-yellow 

 dash on its basal edge ; a subajjical steel-blue patch interrupted by the veins. 

 Secondary chrome-yellow, with costa finely paler; termen broadly black, invaded 

 by the yellow from veins 3 to 4. Underside as above, except that the costa of the 

 primary is finely steel-blue, and the costa and termen of secondary are encircled 

 with steel-blue, the former narrowly and the latter mure or less broadly. 



Expanse, 40 to 44 mm. 



Hab. Kebea Range, 3000 ft,, July ; Ekeikei, January and February. 



Type in my collection. 



