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wing^ the subapical bar (in its upper portion) and apical spot, the 

 submarginal rings, and a short narrow median fascia ; and in hind- 

 wing the median fascia and submarginal rings. 



This very handsome Euplicedra belongs to the group of Avhich E. Medon 

 (Linn.) is the type, but is very distinct from all its allies in the breadth and 

 rich yellow tint of the subapical bar of the fore-Avings. Oberthiir {Etudes 

 d' Entomologie, iii. p. 28) notes an example from " Tchouacka," in which the 

 dull bluish-green of the upper side is replaced by violaceous. 



I include Neophron in my list on the authority of Mr. W. F. Kirby's 

 Catalogue of the Heivitson Collection, in which (p. 93) Delagoa Bay is given 

 as one of the localities of the examples contained in that collection. The late 

 Mr. J. J. Monteiro wrote to me in 1877 that he had taken the species at one 

 spot about three miles from Lourengo Marques ; and it is probable that Mr. 

 Hewitson obtained it from him. 



The examples that I have examined are from the Zambesi Valley and 

 Zanzibar. 



Localities of Euphcedra Neophron. 



I. South Africa. 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Coll. Hewitson. 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi Valley {Rev. H. Waller). " Querimba." 

 Hopfifer. Zanzibar.— Coll. Brit. Mus. "Tchouacka (i?a/ra?/)." 

 — Oberthur. Magila.— Coll. W. Distant. 

 hi. Interior. — Lake Nyassa. — Coll. Hewitson. 



Genus EURYPHENE. 

 Euri/2:)hene, Wostw., Gen. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 285 (1850). 



Imago. — Nearly allied to EupJmdra. Head not so v^ide, with a 

 tuft of hair in front ; j^a/jji longer, not so ascendant, not convergent. 



Thorax much less robust, more hairy beneath. Fore-wings some- 

 what truncate, with apical angle more or less pronounced ; hind-margin 

 usually entire, occasionally slightly hollowed about middle ; neuration 

 as in Euphcedra, except that (in some sjDecies) third subcostal nervule 

 originates very little beyond extremity of discoidal cell. Hind-ivings 

 larger, and in ^ considerably lengthened inferiorly ; hind-margin entire 

 or very slightly sinuated ; lower disco-cellular nervule very attenuated, 

 sometimes almost obsolete. Fore-legs of ^ not so densely hairy generally, 

 but with a longer tuft of hairs at extremity of tarsus. Middle and hind 

 legs with considerably longer, slightly curved femora ; tibiae only very 

 finely spined beneath, — terminal spurs extremely small ; tarsi long, 

 scarcely spinulose above, and but moderately spinose beneath. 



These characters, while serving to distinguish Euryphene from 

 Euphmdra^ for the most part approximate it to Aterica, Boisd., and 

 Harma, Westw. From the two latter genera it differs, however, in its 

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