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Show 1887.] WEST-AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 569 and one from Old Calabar, in addition to the absence of this spot, have the subapical ochreous band narrower than in the specimen before me ; the only difficulty is that a female in the Museum from Old Calabar corresponds far better with the Cameroons type than with Hewitson's males, none of which differ strikingly from the Congo male. As it is hardly likely that the differences between the Old Calabar and Cameroons males can be constant, though well marked in the specimens in the Museum, I have regarded them as the result of individual variation. 12. EURYPHENE MARDANIA. Papilio mardania, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 249. n. 776 (1793). A female of this common species. 13. EUPH_EDRA RUSPINA. Romaleosoma ruspina, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. iii. Rom. pl. 2. figs. 6, 7 (1865). One male in good condition. 14. EUPH^EDRA XYPETE. Romaleosoma xypete, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. iii. Rom. pl. 2. figs. 8-10 (1865). 15. EuPH^EDRA JOHNSTONI, Sp. n. 3 . Allied to E. losinga and luperca ; nearest to the former, from which it differs as follows: primaries above with the costa, two large spots in the cell, and the apical half black, external angle suffused with purple ; oblique ochreous subapical belt longer and broader ; secondaries with a broad external belt of purple, from subcostal vein almost to anal angle, enclosing four large oval dark copper-brown spots : all the wings below with subapical white band, that of primaries representing the ochreous band of the upper surface, that of secondaries more transverse and tapering to below the third median branch ; three black spots placed in the form of a triangle, and a terminal transverse black dash in all the discoidal cells. Expanse of wings 90 millim. One male. I have been unable to find a description of this very handsome species, which I have therefore been obliged to name. 16. EUPH_EDRA CERES. Papilio ceres, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 504. n. 257 (1775). This abundant species is rarely absent from any West-African collection. 17. CRENIS OCCIDENTALTUM. Crenis occidentalium, Mabille, Bull. Soc. Zool. de France, vol. i. p. 275 (1876). |
