Description
The original description reads Euphaedra graueri sp. nov. Male and female ground-colour above deep velvety blue-black. Forewing basal two-fifths obliquely steel-blue, a postmedian broad oblique orange band consisting of two large quadrate patches joined corner to corner, fringe at apex whitish, and elsewhere black with white intranervular dots. Hindwing basal three-fourths steel-blue. Below forewing olivaceous grass-green freckled with black scales; 3 black spots in cell, a postdiscal, somewhat dilute black transverse band, oblique transverse orange band paler. Hindwing olivaceous grass-green freckled with black scales; 2 black spots in cell and a black streak on discocellulars, postdiscal band as on forewing, a dark rose-crimson transverse band from costa to beyond vein 3 beyond cell, which curves round and reaches base of wing, the horizontal portion being each side of vein 1, a black line on inner side of the transverse portion of the crimson band. Length of forewing: male 39 mm., female 48 mm. Expanse: male 83 mm., female 101 mm. Habitat. Forest 90 km. west of Lake Albert Edward, February 1908, 1,600 m. (R. Grauer), 1 male, 2 females. ==Etymology==