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EUPHAEDRA. By Dr. 0. AomviLLnis. 
neath without white median band; the subapical band of the fore wing in the above green, beneath light 
green and indistinct, in the $ greenish or white; the under surface with bright green ground-colour, only at 
the inner margin of the hindwing somewhat yellowish; fringes black. The <$ fully corresponds to the form 
r avola. vetusta of themis. Sierra Leone. -— ab. ravola Hew. (43 b). Hindwing beneath without white median band; 
the subapical band of the fore wing in both sexes broad and orange-yellow; the black spots on the under sur- 
rezia. face large and strongly developed. Liberia to Gaboon. — ab. rezia Hew. (43 a, b). The subapical band 
of the forewing is narrow and of uniform breadth and the discal spots on the under surface which bound it 
proximally small and rather far removed from the apex of the cell (usually much further than in the specimen 
figured); the apex of the forewing above has often a strong blue or green reflection, especially in the the 
ground-colour of the under surface varies from green-yellowish to dark brown, the subapical band of the fore- 
coftoni. wing is usually yellow or yellowish, in the $ occasionally almost white. Cameroons to Kuilu. — ab. cottoni 
E. Sharpe apparently only differs from rezia in having the yellow subapical band of the forewing broken up 
phaethusa. into spots. Ituri. — ab. phaetliusa Btlr. differs from all the preceding forms in having the submarginal 
spots on the under surface entirely absent or only indicated; the black discal spots on the contrary are present 
and the hindwing has a whitish median band; the subapical band of the forewing is light yellow or greenish 
adelica. white ( = adelica Bartel). — artaynta Mdschler is so inadequately described that I cannot identify it. The 
artaynta. description runs: Most resembles ceres ; the band of the fore wing is, however, not whitish but yellow and 
its shape is different; it runs from the costal margin obliquely towards the distal margin as far as cellule 4, 
in the middle of which its outer edge forms an obtuse angle directed towards the distal margin, whilst in 
ceres the band is regular; the colouring of the hindwing is of a duller green than in ceres ; there is no trace 
of the whitish band at the costal margin which occurs in ceres; the deep black transverse spot on the trans¬ 
verse vein is likewise either entirely absent or only shows through faintly from the under surface; before the 
distal margin is placed a row of blue-green spots. The ground-colour of the under surface is a more or less 
dull olive-brown; the first black spot in the median band (at the costal margin) is much shorter and narrower 
than in ceres and projects much less basewards beyond the band; also the other spots of the band are much 
smaller than in that species; in the cell are placed 1 or 2 round black spots; behind the cell runs as far as cel¬ 
lule 2 a broad, sharply defined, white, bluish-tinged band, which in ceres is narrower and not sharply defined; 
the black spots before the distal margin are smaller than in ceres and the black crescentic marginal spots are 
entirely absent; apex narrowly white; fringes white-spotted. Ashanti. 
wissvianni. E. wissmanni Niep. “Forewing olive-brown above; the apical band, Avhich does not quite reach the 
distal margin, glossy lilac-blue; costal margin, apex and base with intensive lilac gloss; the black transverse 
streak in the cell very weakly marked; the dark olive-brown colour at the inner margin notched with light 
colour. Hindwing lighter above with dark border; the latter basally bounded by the weakly black marked 
sub marginal spots; the black transverse cell-spot showing through faintly; a dull lilac gloss in and at either 
side of the cell from the base to the dark border; distal margin excised, with black and white fringes. Fore- 
wing dirty yellow-brown beneath, in the apex white; apical band whitish, blurred; this as well as the apex 
with slight lilac gloss; in the cell 3 strong black spots, one placed towards the base, the other two triangu¬ 
larly distad; further forwards a black transverse streak closing the cell; marginal spots very weak, marked 
with white. Hindwing orange-yellow beneath, the part between cell and costal margin bearing a white band, 
which, beginning with a broad spot running parallel with the costal margin, becomes gradually narrower 
to the middle of the cell, is weakly defined basally and fades out towards the distal margin; the cell bears 
basally 2 vertically placed dots, the lower half as large as the upper; clistally to these a thick black streak; 
submarginal spots faintly white, the first 5 basally bordered with dark; at both sides of the precostal black 
markings, frosted with lilac; a dull black comma-shaped streak bounds the anterior spot in the band basally; 
the half of the wing which bears the band, as well as the latter, with slight lilac gloss.” Congo: Kassai River. 
viridicaeru- E. viridicaerulea Bartel (= rana Stgr. i. 1.) (44 c) differs from ceres in having the black discal spots 
,ea ' on the under surface very indistinct or absent and from the following species in the distinct, black, bluish-mar - 
gined submarginal spots on the hindwing beneath. The forewing has the subapical band bluish white and 
the hinclmarginal spot on the upper surface very narrow, scarcely reaching the middle of cellule 1 b; the mar¬ 
ginal band on the upperside of the hind wing is without distinct blue spots; the forewing beneath has three 
black spots in the cell and a black submarginal spot in cellule 1 b; the hindwing beneath is more or less yel¬ 
lowish. especially towards the inner margin, in the cell with 1 or 2 black dots and with a black spot at the 
base of vein 8; the $ with an indistinctly defined whitish median band, which is entirely absent in the <$. South 
Cameroons and Gaboon. 
inanum. E. inanum Btlr. (42 d; 44 c). Both wings beneath without black discal and submarginal spots, but 
with 2 or 3 black dots in the cell of the forewing and 1 or 2 in that of the hindwing; hindwing beneath in both 
sexes with sharply defined white median band, sometimes broken up into spots, extending from the costal 
margin to vein 3 or 4; hindwing often with bluish or green submarginal spots on both surfaces; subapical 
band of the forewing above light yellowish (rf) or nearly white ($), beneath white; the bluish hindmarginal 
spot on the upperside of the forewing narrow. Sierra Leone to Angola. 
