338 NOVITATES ZOOLOQICAE XXV. 1918. 



SOME APPARENTLY NEW FORMS OF AFRICAN 

 NYMPHALIDAE. 



By lord ROTHSCHILD, F.R.S., Ph.D. 



Euphaedra Uganda form, viridis form. nov. 



(J. Differs from typical uganda above in the ground-colour being blackish 

 olive or olive-black, not velvety brown-black, and the blue markings of uganda 

 are replaced by metallic verditer olive-green. A row of submarginal spots on 

 hindwing of similar green also distinguishes this form from vganda, which lacks 

 all submarginal sjjots. 



Below it is marked with yellowish olive-green instead of whitish blue.' 

 Habitat. Entebbe, Uganda, July — ^August 1900 (Colonel H. B. Rattray), 



3 ^S. 



Euphaedra luperca ab. suffusa ab. nov. 



o. Differs from ab. variegata Aur. in having the whole of fore- and hind- 

 wings completely suffused with steel-blue, not only the margins and tornal area. 

 Habitat. Lake Azingo, Gaboon, December 1907 (Dr. Ansorge), 1 (J. 



Euphaedra imperialis Lmdemans. 



Euphaedra imperialis Lindemans, Tijdsch. Entom. vol. liii. p. 278. pi. 13. f. 1 (1910) (S. Cameroona). 



Aurivillius in Seitz suggests that this might prove to be a ? form of luperca 

 Hew., as only ?? were known ; the Tring Museum, however, possesses 5 3S and 



4 ?$ of this fine species, and the 33 only differ from the $i' in being smaller 

 and having the bluish band on the hmdwings more sharply defined. 



Euphaedra imperialis gabonica subsp. nov. 



o ?. Differs from imp. imperialis above in the green suffusion of the wmgs 

 being much paler, and the orange band of the forewiiigs bemg much less sharply 

 defined, more diffused and paler. 



Habitat. Lambarene, French Congo (Harrington), 1 o ; 1 ? ?. 



Euphaedra lupercoides sp. nov. 



o. Above forewing velvety black suffused with deep blue ; basal one-third 

 irregularly obliquely metallic pale steel-green, an oblique bufifish-white band in 



outer one-thii'd, apical patch white, smaller than in luperca. Hindwing 



metallic pale steel-green; abdominal area dull brown, terminal one-fifth of wing 

 steel-blue. 



Below olive-green washed with pinkish brown; markings as in luperca. 

 all below vein 2 on forewings cinnamon colour. 



Habitat. Luebo, Kassai River, October 1903 (Landbeck), 1 o. 



