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(226) 6. Euryphene zonara (Butler) 



Aterica zonara Butler, 1871, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 81; 1871, Lep. Exot., p. 72, 

 PI. XXVIII, figs. 1, 2. 



There are three males, all taken at Medje, one in April, the other 

 two in September, and one female caught in the month of July. The 

 figure of the under side of the wings of a male given by Aurivillius in his 

 'Rhopalocera ^thiopica,' PI. iii, is that of a specimen in which the 

 characteristic markings are not as strongly accentuated as in the speci- 

 mens upon which I am reporting. 



(227) 7. Eurjrphene lucasi, new species 



Plate IX: Figure 4, 6^, type; Figure 5, 9 . allotype 



cf . Upper side of both wings reddish fulvous marked with bands and spots of 

 dark brown. Fore Wing: a dark spot filling the base of the cell, succeeded by a 

 narrow angulated line, which in turn is followed by a large spot having the outline 

 of the figure 8, succeeded by a second narrow angulated line, and this in turn followed 

 at the end of the cell by a large spot, which has its inner margin straight, but is 

 sinuate on its outer margin; below the cell the basal area as far as the first mesial 

 outer band of light spots is dark brown; the dark spot at the end of the cell and 

 the dark area below the cell are succeeded by a mesial band of light spots, which, 

 beginning on the costa beyond the end of the cell, runs first transversely toward the 

 outer margin as far as vein 6, then turns abruptly and sweeps backward and 

 downward to the inner margin of the wing which it reaches less than half its 

 distance from the base. Beyond this series of light spots is a series of dark subquad- 

 rate spots gradually increasing in width from the costa as far as the first submedian 

 nervule, and then rapidly diminishing toward the inner margin. This band is suc- 

 ceeded by a series of light lunate spots convex basad as far as vein two, and continued 

 to the inner margin in a narrow curved line parallel to the line of the lower part of the 

 first median series of light spots. This last line of light spots is followed by a series 

 of subcircular dark spots on the interspaces extending from vein 6 to vein 1 , below 

 which the last spot of the series is quadrate. Beyond these spots there is another 

 series of light sublunate spots convex marginad. The effect of the arrangement of 

 the last-mentioned two series of light lines with their reversed curvatures is to produce 

 the appearance of eyelike markings, with a dark pupil partly surrounded by red. 

 The marginal border of the wing is dark, but not as dark as the inner series of dark 

 bands and spots. At the apical extremity of the wing there is a general dark suffu- 

 sion in which the spots and bands lose themselves. The cilia are dark brown, check- 

 ered at the middle of each interspace with white. Hind Wing: fuscous on the inner 

 margin, with the area below the cell for a short distance, and the base of the cell dark 

 brown ; the middle of the cell is reddish, marked with a figure 8 and a thin dark line at 

 its end, both darker; beyond the cell is a dark shade or band, interrupted bj' a 

 mesial band of bright reddish brown, which, beginning as a point in interspace 7, 

 rapidly widens to veinl, where it ends abruptly. The two bands of light lines en- 

 closing circular dark spots, found on the primaries, are continued upon the 

 secondaries and the marginal borders and cilia of the latter are much as on the former. 

 The head, thorax, and abdomen are blackish above, as are the palpi; on the lower 



