204 [September, 



3843. — Hcmcrophila japygiana, Costa. Tliis variable and local species is fairly 

 common in Gibraltar, whei-e there appears to be a continuous brood 

 during the year. I have taken fresh specimens in February and 

 during each month from June to December. 



3914. — Tephronia codctaria, Obth. One example taken off a tree-trunk at the 

 waterfalls near Algeciras on July 16th, 1910. 



(To be continued). 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF EUBYPHENE FROM 



WEST AFRICA. 



BY G. C. DUDGEON, F.E.S. 



The insects described liere belong to the Eujjhxdr a -like section of 

 the genus, but are distinct from any of the described forms. They 

 correspond with E. barombina, Staud., in having the apex of the fore- 

 wing with a white spot in both sexes, and in the cell of the same wing 

 being crossed by two blue or greenish bars, but they differ in having a 

 distinct sub-apical ochreous bar across interspaces 4, 5, and 6 in both 

 sexes, and in the inner area of the forewing and disc of the hindwing 

 being steel-blue or greenish, the last with a whitish or yellowish patch 

 in the middle of interspaces 4 — 6. The underside of the hindwing 

 bears a sub-qiiadrate whitish patch in the middle of interspace 7, 

 which marking is not present in E. barombina. . 



EURYPHENE ASHANTINA, SjJ. H. 

 cJ . Forewing black, more or less sprinkled with blue or greenish scales 

 below the costa ; cell crossed by two l>lue or greenish- blue bars followed by an 

 indistinct blue or purplish one beyond the discocellulars : a subapical well- 

 defined ochreous bar from vein 7 nearly reaching vein 4, widening below the 

 middle of interspace 5 and bearing a black spot \ipon it below vein 5 ; a sub- 

 triangular steel-blue or greenish patch having one side extending along the 

 inner margin from one quarter distance from the base to about 3 mm. from the 

 outer margin, and the apex reacliing to vein 5 where it is suffused into the 

 subapical ochreous bar ; the bases of all the interspaces black ; indistinct 

 blackish marks on the blue or greenish area between the veins — an oval one in 

 interspace 3 and strigiform ones in 2 and 6 ; a suffused blackish border to the 

 outer margin about 3 mm. in width and a quadrate white apical spot. Hind- 

 wing with the base and outer margin black, the latter about 3 mm. in width 

 and iuAvardly suffused with indigo-blue, l)roadest towards tlic apex ; disc of 

 wing steel-blue or greenish witli a whitish or oclireous patch in interspaces 

 3 — 6 crossed by blue or gi'eenish lines of scales between the veins ; cell with 

 two round black spots in the middle, the upper the larger, and a divided black 

 mark on the upper part of the discocellulars. 



'^ . ForcAving with the apex produced, hindwing somewhat quadrate in 



