504 Professor EH. B. Poulton on the genus Euliphyra. 
II. The genus Kuliphyra, Holland. By Prof. E. B. 
PouLTon, with notes by G. T. BreTuunn-BakER 
and H. EvrrincHam. 
Puate XXVIII. 
Mr. W. A. LamBorn’s material throws so clear a light upon 
the species of this important and puzzling little genus that 
it seems worth while to write a short revision. This is all 
the more necessary because the species, few as they are, 
have been much confused. Hewitson described together 
under leucyania the male and female of two very different 
species, and Aurivillius, recognising this mistake, created 
a new species for the female, which is finally proved by 
W. A. Lamborn’s material to be the hitherto unknown 
female of Holland’s mirifica. The want of a proper under- 
standing of the true relationships has been principally due 
to the great rarity of the specimens. 
1. Euliphyra leucyania, Hewitson (see the accompanying 
Plate X XVII, figs. 1-4). First described under the genus 
Inphyra in Trans. Ent. Soc., 1874, p. 355, and afterwards in 
Ill. D. Lep. Suppl., 1878, p. 34 male, p. 35 female. Hewit- 
son represented in fig. 2 of his Plate V b, the underside of 
the male and in fig. 1 the upper side of the female. As 
Aurivillius showed in “ Rhopalocera Aethiopica” 1898, 
the female is an entirely different species from the male. 
The locality quoted by Hewitson in both publications is 
Old Calabar, but his two specimens in the British Museum 
are labelled Sierra Leone. Appended to the description in 
Ill. D. Lep. Suppl., published after Hewitson’s death, is a 
note (p. 34) by the late W. F. Kirby, expressing the opinion 
that the reference of the species to the genus Liphyra was 
erroneous. The British Museum has since acquired an 
example of the true female of leucyania. The specimen 
bears the following data :— 
* Ashanti, Obuassi (150 miles inland) 1902-3 (end of 
wet season and beginning of dry) G. E. Bergmar.” At 
the same time undoubted evidence as to the sexes of 
leucyania is to be welcomed, and is provided by Mr. 
Lamborn’s capture, on Feb. 6, 1911, in the forest 1 mile 
HK. of Oni Clearing, of a pair i cop. The note with the 
specimens is as follows :— 
“The damaged condition is attributable to the mode of 
