EUPHAEDRA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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$ at least in the middle and beyond the end of the cell blue, violet or greenish. The apex of the 
forewing is in the E not white above, or at most with white fringes. 
a) The subapical band of the forewing is only 1—■2 mm. in breadth, does not reach vein 3 and con¬ 
sists of four free or nearly free white or whitish yellow spots. 
1. Hindwing beneath without white longitudinal streak at the costal margin. The base and 
hindmargin of the forewing and the hindwing, at least in the middle, bright blue (E) above, 
or at least tinged with bluish. E. Uganda. 
2. Hindwing beneath sometimes with a white longitudinal streak near the costal margin, beginning 
at the base and in cellule 7 almost reaching the apex. On the upper surface the basal part 
of the forewing and the hindwing to the distal margin are uniform dark green. 
E. peculiar is. 
b) The yellow, greenish or occasionally white subapical band on the upperside of the forewing is 3—-4 mm. 
in breadth, continuous throughout and posteriorly bounded by vein 3; in the ^ it is sometimes indis¬ 
tinct. Forewing in the $ with white apical spot above. Wings beneath with three sharply prominent 
black dots in the cells and usually also with dark submarginal spots. E. medon. 
II. HindAving beneath at the base of the costal margin red. Fore wing in both sexes with large white apical 
spot above. E. luperca. 
E. symphona. 
E. imperialis. 
E. spatiosa Mob. (45 c). Both Avings above uniform dark olive-brown, in the apical half of the fore- spatiosa. 
wing blackish with yelloAV subapical band and white apical spot. The under surface is green Avith one black 
dot (occasionally 2 or 3) in the cells and two dull, dark, not very distinct transverse bands beyond the middle; 
the subapical band of the forewing only shows through faintly. The $ may attain an expanse of 100 mm. and 
is the largest of all the Euphaedra species. Cameroons to the Congo and Uganda. 
E. losinga Hew. (45 b, c) entirely agrees with spatiosa above, but differs beneath in the hindwing losinga. 
having in the middle a narrow, sharply defined white transverse band, beginning at the middle of the costal 
margin and reaching vein 4 or 3; beyond the middle of both wings runs a single dark transverse band, 
which, however, is often more distinct than the transverse bands in spatiosa ; the subapical band of the 
forewing is white and sharply defined beneath, at least in the anterior part; the cell of both Avings beneath 
with 1-—3 black dots. Cameroons, Congo, Angola, ab. impuncfata Bartel only differs in having no black impunc- 
dots in the cells beneath and the Avhite median band of the hindwing only represented by a spot in cellule 7. laia ' 
South Cameroons. — inaequabilis Thurau has the subapical band of the forewing narrower, above deeply inaequabil 
incised proximally at veins 4 and 5 and beneath broken up into spots; the Avhite median band on the underside 
of the hindwing is also broken up into spots. Uganda. 
E. wardi Druce (44 d) is very similar to the tAvo preceding species above, but differs in having a violet wardi. 
or coppery reflection in the anal area. Beneath both Avings are bright light green or bluish green, each 
with three large black spots in the cell and the forewing with a continuous, sharply defined white subapical 
band; this is usually finely bordered with black basally; the hindwing bears a rather broad white median band, 
which is often basally margined with black. Old Calabar and Cameroons. 
E. harpalyce Cr. (45 b). Both wings above uniform black-brown, with small white apical spot on harpalyce. 
the forewing and a bright blue transverse band on the hindwing, which is broad at the anal angle, anteriorly 
becoming narrower terminates at vein 6 or 7 and is sometimes continued more or less far on the forewing also. 
The under surface is rather uniform light green or grey-green with 1—3 black dots in the cells. In the type- 
form the subapical band of the forewing is entirely absent in the E and very narrow and yellowish in the 
$. Sierra Leone to Cameroons. In ab. lakuma Btlr. the subapical band of the forewing is very narrow in the E> lakuma. 
but in the $ 4—5 mm. in breadth. Among the type-form. 
E. eupalus F. (45 b) is quite similar above to the preceding species, but differs beneath in both wings eupalus. 
or at least the hindwing having in the middle a curved transverse row of free white spots, usually bordered 
Avith black proximally. Sierra Leone to the Congo. 
E. Uganda Auriv. is a beautiful species, somewhat recalling preussi (42 d) above. Both wings above Uganda. 
blackish with bluish gloss; in the E the base of the forewing as far as vein 2, the hindmargin to beyond the 
middle and the costal margin to the cell, together with the hindwing to far beyond the middle, are a beauti¬ 
ful and intensive blue, in the $ these parts are faintly dark violet and only bluish in the middle; the subapi¬ 
cal band of the forewing is narrow and consists of five white, bluish-edged spots. The under surface is light 
bluish grey-green with 1-—-3 black spots in the cell of the forewing and a white median band on the hind¬ 
wing, composed of rounded spots and sometimes little distinct, extending from vein 7 to vein 3. Uganda. 
E. peculiaris Lathy. In the E the basal part of the forewing above as far as the apex of the cell and peculiaris. 
