On the upper side [distinguished] by the washed-out white subapical band of the forewing and beneath by the very washed-out submarginal corner on both wings and [by] the leathery brown ground colour of the form mirabilis Bartel [Euphaedra xypete ab. mirabilis Bartel, 1905; Novit. Zool. 12: 142]. Below all black discal spots are missing, only in the middle cells there are 3 spots on the forewing and 2 spots on the hind wing. The red color on the anterior edge of the hind wing does not reach as far outwards as in typical xypete.
Wingspan 82 mm.
Type: 1 2 Dengdeng, New Cameroon, 23.—28. II. 14, collector Dr. Mildbraed.[German expedition led by Johannes Mildbraed in the Rugege forest German East Africa].
From the Staudinger Collection, the Museum owns xypete from Sierra Leone, which form transitions to diffusa, in that the underside of the hind wing still shows faint discal spots. [3]
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