NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXV. 191S. 339 



Euphaedra symphona B. Baker. 



Euphaedra sijinphona Bethune Baker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8)2. p. 472 (190S) (Upper Congo). 



Both Professor Aurivillius and Dr. Strand place this species in the genus 

 Euryphene. Now Professor Aurivillius in Seitz most emjjhatically states that 

 there are no structural differences between the two genera Euryphene and 

 Euphaedra, and that the only reliable difference is that in Euryphene the p.vlpi 

 are of various shades of grey, whereas in Euphaedra they are always bright 

 golden or orange-yellow. There are in the Tring Museum 7 c?o and 1 ? of 

 symphona and the palpi of all are deep golden yellow, showing this species to be 

 clearly a Euphaedra. In case it might be supposed that the Tring Museum 

 specimens have been wrongly identified, I would point out that we have also 

 a (J and 9 of Euphaedra aurivillii Strand, the only possible species symphona 

 could be confused with. 



Euphaedra graueri sp. nov. 



S ?. Ground-colour above deep velvety blue-black. 



Forewmg basal two-fifths obliquely steel-blue, a postmedian broad oblique 

 orange band consistmg of two large quadrate patches joined corner to corner, 



fringe at apex whitish, and elsewhere black with white intranervular dots. 



Hindwing basal three-fourths steel-blue. 



Below forewing olivaceous grass-green freckled with black scales ; 3 black 

 spots in cell, a postdLscal, somewhat dilute black transverse band, oblique trans- 

 verse orange band paler. Hindwing olivaceous grass-green freckled with black 

 scales ; 2 black spots in cell and a black streak on discocellulars, postdiscal band 

 as on forewing, a dark rose-crimson transverse band from costa to beyond vein 

 3 beyond cell, which curves round and reaches base of wing, the horizontal 

 portion bemg each side of vein 1, a black line on innerside of the transverse 

 portion of the crimson band. 



Length of forewing : <J 39 mm., $ 48 mm. Expanse: <J 83 mm., ? 101 mm. 



Habitat. Forest 90 km. west of Lake Albert Edward, February 1908, 1,600 m. 

 (R. Grauer), 1 3, 2 ??. 



Euphaedra xypete form, albocoenilea form. nov. 



S ?. Differs from tyjoical xypete Hew., in the yellow on the upper surface 

 being replaced by bluish white, givmg the insect a bluish instead of an olive-green 

 appearance. 



Hiibitat. Same as typical form. 



Euphaedra xypete ansorgei subsp. nov. 



(J$. Similar to x. form, crockeri Butl. but much larger. 



Above much less yellow, and in the S the markings less distinct, and in the 

 $ the postmedian patch on forewing less round, more quadrate and bandlike. 



Below much less yellow, all markings more dilute and less distinct ; red 

 on hindwings less distinct and more washed out. 



Length of forewing f. crockeri $ 31-41 mm., ? 42-45 mm. 



Expanse ,, ,, S 66-86 mm., ? 89-95 mm. 



