1920] Holland, Lcpidoptcra of the Congo 173 



(201) 5&. Euphsedra preussi njamnjami Staudinger 

 Euphadra preussi var. njamnjami Staudinger, 1891, Iris, IV, p. 125. 

 Euphcedra prewssi Aurivillius, 1912, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 189, PI. XLiid. 



To this varietal form, characterized by Staudinger as having the 

 upper side of the wings black and not laved with green at the apex as in 

 typical preussi, the under side ferruginous, without submarginal mark- 

 ings, I refer twelve males and twenty-one females from Medje and 

 Gamangui. The males and females are all distinctly somewhat larger in 

 size than either of the two foregoing forms. The outer two-thirds of the 

 wings of the males are black, the subapical transverse band narrow, 

 composed of four spots separated by the nervules, and the lower side 

 without submarginal markings save as these may be indicated by small 

 white dots in a few of the specimens. The prevalent color of the under 

 side of the wings is brownish ochraceous, or ferruginous more or less 

 laved with green in the case of the males, but not in the case of the 

 females. As in the two preceding forms, the hind wings beyond the end 

 of the cell may have a discal light spot, or this light spot may be ex- 

 tended costad in the form of a pale transverse discal band, losing itself 

 in the light costal margin. 



While I am averse to adding to the apparent interminable confu- 

 sion which already exists in this species, I am, nevertheless, constrained 

 by facts which are too apparent to be overlooked to set off from among 

 the specimens before me several varietal forms which are quite as 

 wortlw of being discriminated as those which have already been men- 

 tioned. 



(202) 5c. Euphredra preussi notata, new variety 



Plate XI, Figure 1, cf 

 I apply this name to two males and three females before me. The males and 

 females are relatively smaller than any specimens of the varieties njami Staudinger 

 and njamnjami Staudinger, which they resemble on the upper side of the wings, 

 save that at the end of the cell on the upper side of the secondaries they all have a 

 distinct black spot. On the under side the ground-color of the wings is chocolate- 

 brown, with a more or less bluish suffusion, and the spots in the cell of both the fore 

 and hind wings are large and distinct,' and the submarginal spots are also well indi- 

 cated, having an inner dark nucleus accentuated externally by light spots. The 

 transverse subapical band in the males is pale whitish green; in the females pure white. 

 Expanse, cf, 65-67 mm.; 9 , 70-80 mm. 



The type c? and allotype 9 are in the The Auicrican Museum 

 of Natural Historj^; two paratypes in the Holland Collection in the 

 Carnegie Museum. All are from Medje. 



