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broadly dark brown ; the inner margin, where it meets the posterior 

 wing, with a tuft of black hair. Posterior wing witli three tails ; 

 white, marked with brown under the hair of the anterior wing ; the 

 outer margin black, very narrow, the anal angle white ; the lobe 

 marked by a minute rufous and black spot. 



Under-side : white. Anterior wing crossed at and beyond the 

 middle by very pale rufous, linear bands. Posterior wing crossed at 

 the middle by a similar band ; a black spot on the lobe and also between 

 the tails, crowned with orange, which is bordered above with silver-blue. 



Female like the male, except that it is white above, and has two 

 brown spots at the base of the tails. 



Exp. li^ inch. Sah. : "West Africa. 



lOLAUS BOLISSTJS, Sp. 71. 



Upper-side : J" . Ultramarine blue. Anterior wing with the 

 apical half nearly black, a tuft of long black hair where the wings 

 meet. Posterior wing with three tails, the apex and outer margin 

 (which is narrow) black ; a small black spot between the tails ; the 

 lobe black, crowned with scai"let, and irrorated with silver-blue. 



Under-side : white. Both wings crossed by a rufous band beyond 

 the middle. Anterior wing with a rufous line at the end of the cell, 

 and a sub-marginal band of pale brown spots. Posterior wing with, 

 two sub-marginal bands, the inner band rufous, the other brown ; a 

 black spot between the tails, and the lobe black, bordered above with 

 scarlet, irrorated with lilac-blue. 



Exp. Ito iuch. Sah. : AVest Africa (Congo ; Eogers). 



Very near to I. Selius, fi'om which it differs chiefly in its dull, 

 instead of metallic, blue, and in having the black of the anterior wing 

 of a different form, and covering much less space. 



lOLAUS CaNISSTTS, Sp. 01. 



Upper-side : pale blue and white, the costal and outer margins 

 and a band which crosses the cell dark brown. Posterior wing with 

 two tails, crossed at the middle by a rufous-brown band ; a sub- 

 marginal band of spots and the lobe black. 



Under-side : white. Both wings with the outer margin rufous, 

 and a sub-marginal series of black spots. Anterior wing with the base 

 and three broad transverse bands of rufous-orange, bordered with 

 black, from the costal margin to the first branch of the median nervure. 



