AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA: 329 



on the upper surface, api)earing as indistinct dark lines in the basal 

 and discoidal area and as a submarginal band of five oval black 

 spots. jNIarginal band and margin black. Fringes cinereous. 

 Under surface bright orange, shaded with darker orange. Anterior 

 wings with three somewhat sagittate, black spots beyond the cell, 

 and a faint brown shade between the first and second median ner- 

 vules, and a large oval black spot between the fifth subcostal and the 

 discoidal nervule. Above this oval spot two minute light blue spots, 

 jHipilled with dark blue. A series of light blue lunules shaded in- 

 wardly with black extend from the apex, where they are widest, 

 along the outer margin as far as the second discoidal nervule ; margin 

 black ; fringe white. Posterior wings crossed near the middle of the 

 cell by tw^o irregular bands of very dark purjjle or blue-black, the 

 innermost bordered on the side of the base, and the outermost bor- 

 dered on both sides by light ultramarine blue. The middle of the 

 marginal area traversed by a row of seven oval spots of bright ul- 

 tramarine pupilled with dark blue-black, these spots diminishing in 

 size from the middle towards the costal and anal mai-gins. A sub- 

 marginal line of black, followed by a line of light blue ; outer mar- 

 gin black ; inner margin broadly blue, dusted with black scales ; 

 fringe white ; upper surface of palpi, head, thorax and abdomen of 

 same general color as upper surface of wing ; under surface of palpi 

 and abdomen bluish white ; antennae dai'k fulvous. Expanse of 

 wings 2} inches. 



Described from one female in coll. Holland, from Ogove River, 

 W. Africa. 



Cramer, Donovan, and Butler have figured the male of this- ex- 

 quisite species, but the female, which is somewhat less brilliant than 

 the male, has never hitherto been described or figured. 



Genus EURYPHEIVE, Boisd. 

 Eurypliene Cioodii n. sp. pl. viii, fig. 1, o . 



Male. — The fiirm of the wings resembles that of E. PlautiUa, 

 Hew., but with the outer margin more produced at the extremity of 

 the third median nervule. Upper surface of both wings bright rufous, 

 with costal and outer margins shaded with dark brown, passing at 

 apex of primaries into black. Primaries with a small, annular, black 

 mark at base of cell, in the middle of the cell a figure "8" mark, 

 and at the end of the cell three black lines, the innermost of which 

 is narrow and fiiint, and the two outermost heavy and irregular fusing 



TRANS. AMEE. KNT. SOC. XIII. (42) DECEMBER, 1886 



