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There are five males and eleven females before me, not any two of 

 which exactly agree with each other in all respects, but they are so 

 closely related to each other that it seems impossible to separate them. 

 They come nearer to the insect named E. (Romalwosoma) gausape by 

 Butler than to any other form known to me, and I place them here provi- 

 sionally. The males and females have the postapical band of the fore 

 wing orange in color; in the case of the females it is wider than in the 

 case of the males, and varies somewhat in form and breadth. One 

 female has this band pure white, but otherwise I am unable to distin- 

 guish it by its markings from the other females. 



The specimens were all taken at Medje, a male and a female in 

 April, the rest in July and August. 



Xypete Group 



(215) 14. Euphaedra xypete maxima, new variety 



There are three males and three females, which are referable to Romakposoma 

 xypete Hewitson (cf. Exot. Butt., 1S65, III, Romaheosoma, PI. ii, figs. 8-10), but which 

 differ from specimens in my collection received from Sierra Leone, Cameroon, and 

 Gaboon, in being much larger in size, by the prevalently bluish (not greenish) cast 

 of the lighter portions of their wings on the upper side, and by having the spots which 

 define the inner margin of the postapical band on the under side of the primaries 

 much narrower and less strongly developed than is the case in specimens from the 

 localities named. The form may be designated asvar. maxima, the specimens aver- 

 aging fully fifteen per cent more in expanse of wing than specimens taken on the 

 west coast, of which I have many scores before me as I write. 



Male type, Medje; female allotype, Ngayu; paratopes, cf 9 , Ngayu. 



(216) 15. Euphgedra cyanea, new species 



Plate IX: Figure 1, d"; Figure 2, 9 

 Related to E. carulesceus Grose-Smith, but differing markedly on both the 

 under and the upper side of both wings. In E. ca;rulescens the basal portion of the 

 fore wing on the upper side is black throughout, except for a few greenish blue scales 

 along the edge of the inner margin. In E. cyanea the basal area is bright blue from 

 the base to the middle of the cell and thence outwardly to nearly the inner angle of 

 the wing. Beyond this bright blue area, the outer line of which is quite straight, the 

 remainder of the wing is rich velvety black, interrupted, however, by a sharply 

 defined postapical band of bright blue, which is much more sharply defined than is 

 the case in E. coerulescens, and does not extent as far downward toward the inner 

 margin as is the case in the latter species. In E. carulescens this band, which is green- 

 ish blue, passing into yellowish toward the costa, reaches vein 2 near the outer border, 

 but in E. cyanea the band never extends beyond vein 3. The white spots of the 

 cilia, which are present in both species, differ, being wider in E. coeridescens, forming 

 little lunules at the end of the interspaces, but in E. cyanea they are mere pointlets, 

 or dots at the middle of the interspaces on the outer margin. The middle of the 



