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far as my knowledge goes, does not exist, and I think the outhne of the 

 wing in his drawing is due to the fancy of the draftsman, who has ex- 

 aggerated in this respect. The color and markings of the upper side of 

 the wings in all other respects agree with the multitude of specimens 

 before me, which may be accepted as typical E. eleus. The color and 

 markings of the lower side of the wings in Drury's figure represent an 

 extreme variety. 



Of what I long have determined to be E. eleus (Drury) there are in 

 the collection nine males and four females, all taken at Medje at dates 

 ranging from June to September, except one female which was taken 

 at Niangara in November 1910. These specimens all have the trans- 

 verse subapical band white, relatively narrow, consisting of four spots of 

 which the third, reckoning from the costa, is the largest, and the ground- 

 color of both wings is dark brownish red as shown in Drury's figure. 



(196) 3a. Euphaedra eleus hybrida Aurivillius 



Euphcedra eleus ab. hybridus (Sta>udinger, inlitt.), Aurivillius, 1898, Rhop. .Ethiop., 

 p. 186; ab. hybrida Aurivillius, 1912, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 190. 



This varietal form, or subspecies, is represented in the collection by 

 twenty-five males and thirteen females. The dark apical area and, to 

 some extent, the dark marginal band of the secondaries in these speci- 

 mens, shows in certain lights a greenish luster. In the males the sub- 

 apical transverse band is, in almost all cases, composed of only three 

 spots, yellowish white in color, the lowermost of which is the largest. 

 In ten of the specimens in the collection there is, however, a fourth spot 

 indicated as a mere pointlet in the interspace between the second and 

 third submedian nervules. The red ground-color of the wings is much 

 paler than in typical eleus, being orange-red and not dark brown. 



The specimens were almost all taken at Medje, at dates ranging 

 from June to September, though there are several specimens, both male 

 and female, recorded as captured at Gamangui in June, a male taken 

 at Niangara in November, and a female at Avakubi in October. 



This varietal form with the paler ground-color of the wings, the 

 greenish luster of the dark margins, and the j'ellow subapical bands, 

 when pinned out in a series, contrasts rather strikingly with the darker 

 colored specimens which I refer to E. eleus Drury, l)ut when it conies to a 

 comparison of the under side of the wings the difference is so trifling as 

 to make it appear certain that the two forms are merely varietal. 



