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black ; a small wedge-shaped yellow spot in middle of cell and 

 quadrate spot below the cell ; rather elongate postmedial spots 

 between veins 7 and 3. Hind wing black ; wedge-shaped yellow 

 spots in and below base of cell, a large spot beyond the cell and 

 small spot between veins 2 and 4. 



Ab. 1. Abdomen with the bands on 2nd and 3rd segments 

 metallic blue ; fore wing with the spots whitish tinged with 

 yellow. 



Sab. Sierra Leone, Kamagbonse (Simpson), 1 $ type ; Gold 

 Coast, Kumasi (McDowall), 1 <$ . Exp. 54 millim. 



654. Euchromia sperchia. The name guineensis has priority, 

 insert : — 



Euchromia guineensis ab. disci/era, Zerny, Iris, xxvi. p. 120 (1912). 



Fore wing with the yellow patch below the cell semicircular. 

 Congo, Stanleyville, B^ni. 



654 b. Euchromia interrupta. (Plate X. fig. 23.) 



Euchromia sperchia ab. interrupta, Griinb. S.B. Ges. Naturf. 1910, p. 157. 

 Euchromia jacksoni, Betb. -Baker, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 531 (1911). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown with some metallic 

 blue mixed ; frons white below and at sides ; pectus with white 

 lateral patches ; abdomen with subdorsal yellowish white patches 

 on basal segment, orange-red dorsal and subdorsal patches on 

 4th segment, lateral and sublateral series of silvery blue patches, 

 and ventral white band on 4th segment. Fore wing black-brown ; 

 a silvery blue spot below costa near base ; a quadrate yellow 

 antemedial patch below the cell with more or less developed mark 

 above it in the cell ; a postmedial band of four spots between 

 veins 7 and 3. Hind wing black-brown ; yellow patches in and 

 below base of cell, and a patch beyond the cell expanding obliquely 

 at extremity between base of veins 4, 2. 



Hab. Congo, Katanga, Kambove (Heave), 1 d" ; Uganda, 

 Victoria Nyanza (Heave), 1 2 , Entebbe (Heave), 2 2 » type f $ 

 jacksoni in Coll. Bathune-Baker, Mpumu (Heave), 1 cS . Exp, 

 50 millim. This is probably an aberration of E. guineensis. 



656. Euchromia polymeria, subsp. oriental is, insert ■ — 



Oharida elegantissima, Wllgrn. Eugrenies Resa, p. 360 (1861), 

 which has priority, it is probably a distinct species. 



Euchromia. elegantissima var. diffusihelvola, Schnltz, Philipp. J. Gen. Sci. 

 p. 29, pi. l.'f. 3(1908). 



Fore wing brownish irrorated with yellowish especially towards 

 termcn. 



Philippines, Manila. 



