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(203) 5r/. Euphaedra preussi subviridis, now variety 



Plate XI, Figure 4, cT 

 Closely resembling E. preussi, but with the upper outer two-thirds of the fore 

 wings in the case of the male velvety black, the postapical transverse band diffuse, 

 greenish, and toward the apex fading into a lustrous green subapical area which, in 

 certain lights, shows as a brilliant green tract covering the apical area from near the 

 apex to the outer end of the cell; the hind wings and the posterior margin of the fore 

 wing for some distance iridescent greenish blue, this area on the fore wings reaching 

 the lower margin of the cell near the base, but not reaching the outer angle. The 

 posterior wings broadly bordered with dark green, accentuated with a submargiual 

 series of black veh'ety spots. On the under side in the male the wings are more or 

 less grass-green, tinged with chocolate-brown, the transverse subapical band of the 

 primaries being whitish. The spots in the cells of the i)rimaries and the secondaries 

 . are variable in number and size, as is true of all the varieties, and this is also true of the 

 submarginal series of dark spots. The female is marked on the upper side like the 

 male except that the transverse subapical band is pure snow-white. The outer 

 margins, as in all the forms of E. preussi, have the fringes dark, interrupted on the 

 interspaces with white, and the fore wings are at the apex tipped with white. 



There are two males and one female from Medje which I refer to 

 this form. The male and female types are in The American Museum of 

 Natural History; the second male, a paratype, is in the Holland Collec- 

 tion in the Carnegie Museum. 



This form, which is near typical preussi, may be at once distin- 

 guished from it b}" the velvety black band which crosses the fore wings 

 from the base to the outer margin, leaving the diffuse paler subapical 

 transverse band and the elongated brilliantly green apical area in strik- 

 ing contrast with the rest of the wing, and by the brilliantly deep green 

 color of the under side of the wing. 



(204) 5e. Euphaedra preussi fulvofasciata, new variety 



Plate XI, Figure 6, o^ 

 This variety differs from the preceding in having the transverse subapical band 

 on the upper sides of the primaries bright orange in both sexes; the band on the 

 under side is paler, inclining to white, though in a few specimens in the series before 

 me the orange color of the upper side reai^pears. There is a considerable variety in 

 the shape of this band, especially in the female sex. There are seven females before 

 me, and in none of them is the band absoluteh' the same in outline, and in some of 

 them it is much broader than in others. The markings on the under side are more or 

 less variable, as in E. njatnnjami and the other varietal forms which have been men- 

 tioned. 



I assign to this varietal form three males taken at Medje, one in 

 April, one in July, and one in August, and seven females, all taken at 

 the same place, two in April and the others from July to September. 

 In size and in all other respects, except the color and shape of the sub- 



