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EURYPHAEDRA; HARMILLA; CRENIDOMIMAS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
plautilla. E. plautilla Hew. (36 d) is the longest known and commonest species of the genus. In the A the wings 
are dark brown above with the usual black transverse rows distinct and at the hindmargin of the forewing in 
cellules 1 a and 1 b much widened; the submarginal line of the hindwing consists of bidentate, W-shaped trans¬ 
verse streaks; the ground-colour of the under surface is yellow-brown to dark brown. The $ is very variable; 
the form first described, which must therefore be regarded as typical, strongly recalls the $ of porphyrion, 
but is much smaller and has the hindwing fully rounded at the anal angle; the forewing is more or less reddish 
at the middle of the hindmargin and has sometimes also white discal spots in cellules 2 —6; the hinclwing has a 
yellow to red-yellow discal band, 8—9 mm. in breadth, and is often also tinged with dark reddish in the basal 
lisidora. part. Old Calabar to the Congo and Uganda, ab. lisidora Auriv. (= aurimarginata Sufj.) differs in both sexes 
in having on the upperside of the hindwing a broad tan-yellow or light yellow marginal band, which usually 
reaches the third row of spots and thus encloses the submarginal line. The $$ of this form are commoner 
than the AS and have the ground-colour above black-brown, with a light transverse band on the forewing, 
directed towards the anal angle and at the costal margin white, but posteriorly yellowish. Cameroons. In ab. 
claudiamis. claudianus Druce the A has the ground-colour of both wings brown to beyond the middle and in the $ the hind¬ 
wing is almost entirely brown and the forewing at the hindmargin broadly brown. Niger, Cameroons. §-ab. 
albofasciata. albofasciata Stgr. is distinguished by both wings having a white or whitish transverse band beyond the middle; 
specimens with the white spots tinged with brown or greenish form a transition to the other forms. Cameroons. 
5. Genus: Euryphaedra %. 
The distinctive characteristics of this genus are cited at p. 142 in the synopsis of the genera. The only 
species yet known is one of the rarest and most peculiar butterflies of Africa. The forewing is rather narrow 
and elongate, the hindwing on the contrary short and rounded and at the anal angle, between veins 1 b and 2, 
produced into a broad, obtuse lobe; the distal margin of the forewing, at least in the $, is nearly straight. 
The A is unknown to me. 
thauma. E. thaunia Stgr. (50 a) is green above, with black markings; the forewing above with two black spots 
in the cell, a black ring at its extremity, an angled black spot at the base of each cellule from 1 a to 2, long, 
slightly curved streaks in cellules 3—6, a rounded submarginal spot in cellule 1 b and a narrow black marginal 
band; at the costal margin the ground-colour is distinctly darkened; the hindwing above has a rounded black 
spot at the apex of the cell and beyond the middle three transverse rows of black spots and a black marginal 
line. On the under surface the black markings are smaller and the hindwing has only two transverse rows of 
black spots, the first (proximal) being absent; the ground-colour is light ochre-yellow on the hindwing as far 
as the first row of spots and on the forewing at the hindmargin. In the interior of the Cameroons and French 
Congo. 
6. Genus: Hariiiilla Auriv. 
This genus also embraces only a single rare species, of which, however, both sexes are known. The 
sexes are similarly coloured and marked, but the A is smaller than the has shorter and broader wings 
and in shape recalls the AS °f the genus Diestogyna. The antenna is very long. 
rlcyans. H. elegans Auriv. (45 d). Both wings above dark green in the basal part; the forewing then with an orange 
transverse band, placed vertically towards the costal margin, reaching vein 2 and then continued as a narrow 
transverse line to the hindmargin; this transverse band is twice as narrow in the A as in the $; close before 
the apex is placed in the black apical area a large white spot; the hindwing has beyond the apex of the cell a 
broad, light bluish green transverse band and is blackish at the distal margin. Beneath both wings are dark 
ochre-yellow or brownish yellow, with a large black spot in the cell; beyond the middle is placed a curved row 
of rounded spots, some of which are black bordered with white, others only white; in cellules 1 c—-3 of the 
hindwing a thick black submarginal line, which is bordered with grey or whitish. This beautiful and very distinc¬ 
tively marked species has hitherto only been met with on the coast of the Cameroons. 
7. Genus: Creiiidomiiiias Karsch. 
The only species of this genus is superficially so like some species of Crenis that it was formerly regarded 
as a true Crenis , and was even placed by Butler with Crenis rosae (49a) and benguelae (49 b) in a separate but 
quite artificial genus — Metacrenis. The neuration shows in this, as in other cases, where the true relatives 
of the genus are to be sought and to Professor F. Karsch belongs the honour of having first pointed this 
out. The early stages are unfortunately unknown. The wings have the margins almost entire, the distal margin 
only weakly emarginate and the hindwing fully rounded at the anal angle. 
