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(224) 4. Euryphene absolon (Fabriciiis) 

 Papilio absolon Fabricius, 1793, Ent. Syst., Ill, part 1, p. 56. 



Euryphene absolon Aurivillius, 1898, Rhop. yEthiop., p. 201, PI. iii, fig. 5, cf . 



There are six males and one female of this species in the collection. 

 The female was taken at Medje about the middle of August 1910, and 

 two males were likewise captured at the same place, one in May, the 

 other in Jul3\ One male was taken at Avakubi, on October 20, 1909, 

 and two males were caught at Niangara in November 1910. 



(225) 5. Euryphene entebiae Lathy 



Euryphene entebice Lathy, 1906, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 5, PI. ii, fig. 1, cf . 

 Aurivillius, 1912, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 172. 



Dr. Aurivillius regards this as a varietal form of E. absolon. I differ 

 from him, however, for the reason that the female which I associate 

 with the form (the male of which has been very accurately depicted by 

 Lathy) is more like the female of zonara than the female of absolon; 

 in fact, in my preliminary arrangement of the species I had referred the 

 specimens of the suite before me to zonara, marking them as "dark var." 

 Typical zonara from the west coast of Africa is a somewhat smaller 

 insect, the prevalent color of the upper side of the wings being bright 

 reddish fulvous. The specimens of E. entebice before me are most of 

 them larger than typical zonara, much darker in color, warm brown, 

 banded with very dark brown, almost black, and they are all abso- 

 lutely alike on the under side in having on the hind wings on either side 

 of vein 6, just beyond the upper outer angle of the cell, a dark shade, 

 accentuated, as is well shown in Lathy's excellent figure, b}' two small 

 light points, arranged vertically, one on either side of vein 6. The soli- 

 tary female before me has a dark shade located at exactly the same spot, 

 with indications of the lighter points. If designated as a variety of any 

 of the well-known species already described, it seems to me it should be 

 of zonara rather than of absolon. For the present I recognize it as a 

 distinct species. 



The specimens vary a little in size. Held in a very oblique position, 

 they reveal a very slightly purplish blue iridescence, in this respect being 

 somewhat like E. absolon var. micans Aurivillius, though in the latter 

 the blue iridescence is much more evident. 



The collection contains twelve males and one female, which were 

 all taken at Medje, the dates of capture including the months of April, 

 July, August, and September. 



