Euriphene amicia gola Fox 1965

Euriphene (Euriphene) amicia gola new subspecies (Figs. 139, 140)
Two males taken in the Gola Forest at Bomi Hills are E. amicia Hewitson and apparently represent the Occidental subspecies of this uncommon species. The nominate subspecies, described from eastern Nigeria, is found also in Cameroons (figs. 141, 142).
Male. — (Figs. 139, 140.) The pattern on both sides of the wings is nearly identical with that of E. a. amicia, but differs in the following respects: the ground color is much duller and is suffused with black-brown, giving the impression on the upperside of dark wings with light marks, rather than of a reddish brown wing with dark marks; the row of submarginal spots, the postdiscal dark band, the discocellular and discal spots all are brownish black and somewhat wider than in amicia, and the bases of both wings are suffused with blackish brown. On the underside, the ground color is dark ochre-brown, darker than in amicia, which is variegated orange and yellow brown with grey-violet tones along the costa of the forewing and the anal angle of the hindwing (though these grey-violet areas are not present in all males of amicia); the lines and dots of the basic pattern are indistinct in gola, much more so than in amicia, and only the two black spots of the hindwing (one in the discal cell, one over the discocellulars) stand out.
Holotype $ and paratype $. — Bomi Hills, Liberia, 4-IV-1955, R. M. Fox.