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EURYPHENE. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
The yellow subapical band on the upperside of the fore wing nearly 4 mm. in breadth and reaching at least 
to vein 3. Larger species, about 64 mm. E. rnaximiana. 
Synopsis of the 
I. Fore wing above with white apex. 
a. Hindwing above with blue, green or violet median band, which is often also continued on the 
forewing to vein 2 or even further. 
1. Forewing beneath uniform green. E. phantasia. 
2. Forewing beneath at the distal margin darker, brownish; the dark part proximally curved. E. phantasiella. 
b. Hindwing above unicolorous dark brown. Under surface light blue-green and beyond the middle 
with 1—3 darker green transverse bands. 
1. Under surface without distinct dark markings in the cells. Smaller, 64—80 mm. E. flaminia. 
2. Under surface with distinct dark markings in the cells. Larger, 88—89 mm. E. rnaximiana. 
II. Apex of the forewing above not white. Both wings above black-brown without dark transverse bands and 
without blue median band on the hindwing, beneath light grey-green, at the distal margin of the forewing 
and in the middle of the hindwing broadly dark green. E. nivaria. 
phantasia. E. phantasia Hew. (41 a) is only distributed from Old Calabar to the Congo. The $$ recall female 
forms of Euphaedra medon. 
phantasiella E. phantasiella St.gr. occurs from the Cameroons to the Congo and has a broader subapical band on the 
phantasina. forewing. -— In phantasina Stgr. (41 a), from Sierra Leone and North Guinea to Lagos, the subapical band 
of the forewing is much narrower, only 1—2 mm. in breadth, and the distal area on the underside of the fore wing 
is only a little darker than the basal part, but proximally curved. 
nivaria. E. nivaria Ward (40 e) is a very rare species of large size; the under surface is very striking on ac¬ 
count of the sharp contrast between the light green basal part and the dark green colour. Cameroons to the 
Kuilu River. 
flaminia. E. flaminia Stgr. (40e) recalls Euphaedra spatiosa, especially beneath, and has hitherto only been found 
in Old Calabar and the Cameroons. 
maximiana. E. rnaximiana Stgr. is a very similar, but somewhat larger species, of which a few specimens were cap¬ 
tured by Dr. Preuss at the Barombi Station in the Cameroons and which is very little known as yet. 
Fourth Group. 
This small group is distinguished by the oblique band from the middle of the costal margin on the upperside 
of the forewing extending at least to vein 2. Somewhat before the apex there are usually also 2 or 3 yellow or white spots 
in cellules 5—7. The upper surface is brown-yellow to black-brown without any tinge of blue or green and the under surface 
never has the ground-colour green. In all the species the under surface has a common blackish transverse band, which is nar¬ 
row at its commencement at the costal margin of the forewing near the apex, on the forewing is sharply defined and posteriorly 
not or but little widened, but on the hindwing is much widened, proximally not sharply defined, and terminates broadly at the 
middle of the inner margin. 
comas. E. comus Ward (40 e) has the ground-colour of the upperside uniform dark velvety brown and only 
in the cell of the forewing and at the proximal side of the oblique band some indistinct black lines. The forewing 
is dark brown beneath, in the middle more or less yellowish with violet-grey transverse spots in the cell and at 
the costal margin and a whitish apical spot; the underside of the hindwing has besides the median band 4 
or 5 dark transverse bands, all broadly margined with violet-grey. The light spots just before the apex of the fore¬ 
wing are in the $ tinged with yellowish above, in the $ pure Avliite. Cameroons to the Congo. 
cinadhon. E. ciiiaethon Hew. (40 e). In the <$ the wings are lighter brown above with distinct submarginal line; 
the yellow transverse band of the forewing is very broad, the spots before the apex small and yellow; the api¬ 
cal part outside the transverse band is blackish; the markings of the under surface recall those of comus, but are 
a mixture of brown and grey without the bright violet colour of that species. The $ is similar to the <$ 
above, but much darker, black-brown, and with somewhat narrower transverse band on the forewing; the under 
surface agrees almost entirely with that of ikelemba (41 e). In both sexes the dark submarginal line of the fore¬ 
wing is at least in cellules 1 a—3 almost straight, neither undulate not angled, only very weakly dentate. 
Gaboon and French Congo. 
ikclcmtm. E. ikelemba Auriv. (41 e). Only the $ is known. This is very similar to the $ of cinaethon, but 
differs particularly in having the dark submarginal line of the forewing throughout strongly undulate or 
almost angled and above basally light-margined. The light yellow transverse band of the forewing is 
