NYMPHALID.E ATERICA AND EURYPHENE. 



EURYPHENE ELIENSIS. 23, 24, 25, 26. 



- Upperside. Male dark brown. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by 

 an oblique ochreous band, clouded and spotted with brown as it approaches the 

 outer margin ; crossed transversely by a broad band of obscure golden green ; the 

 cell crossed by bands of blue-black. Posterior wing obscure golden green, with two 

 or three brown spots within the cell ; the outer and inner margins broadly brown. 



Underside rufous, clouded with brown. Both wings with a submarginal band 

 of brown. Anterior wing crossed within the ceU by two pale yellow or lilac bands, 

 and beyond the middle by a short broad band of the same colour; a small round 

 spot, a bilobed spot between the bands, and a spot at the end of the cell bordered 

 with black ; an apical grey spot. Posterior wing glossed with lilac, with some 

 indistinct conical brown spots above the submarginal band ; an oblique white spot on 

 the middle of the costal margin, and below it two similar white spots ; a minute black 

 spot and two small spots bordered with black within the cell. 



Female (Figs. 23, 24), like the male, except that it is darker : the band across 

 the apex more distinct, white : that there is a subapical white spot, and that the 

 transverse green band is reduced to an oblong spot upon the inner margin. Posterior 

 wing with its centre ochreous-yellow. Underside like the male, except that it is of a 

 different tint of colour; that the band near the costal margin is less oblique and 

 higher up, and has no second band below it. 



Expan. 3 inches. Hab. Gaboon. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



This butterfly scarcely differs on the upperside from the species which I have figured as Eoma- 

 lreosoma Cutteri. 



