1873.) 11.9 



pointing towards the apex of the wing. Ocellus silreiy, enclosing three blaek lines. 

 Cilia olive-browu, with one or more distinct white dashes below the apex. Hind- 

 wings fuscous, with the base pearlj white. 



? darker ; the white dashes in the cilia indistinct. 



Eeadily distinguislied from dorsana by its broader and shorter 

 fore-wiugs with rounded costa, aud the hind margin much less oblique, 

 and by the white dashes in the cilia. The dorsal blotch is alao 

 generally broader than in that species, and its apex dilated, but this 

 is variable. 



My specimens are from my late lamented friend, Mr. T. H. Allis, 

 and from Messrs. Sang and T. Wilkinson, and were obtained, I believe, 

 near Scarborough. 



{To he continued). 



DESCRIPTION OF SIX NEW SPECIES OF EPITOLA FROM THE WEST 

 COAST OP AFRICA. 



BT W. C. nEWITSO>", F.L.8. 



Having to examine Boisduval's two genera Phytala and Epitoln 

 in order to describe half-a-dozen new species belonging apparently, by 

 the form of their wings, to both of them, I have had to place them all 

 with Epitola, and to come to the conclusion that there is not a suffi- 

 cient generic distinction to separate them. In the new species, the 

 palpi are all erect ; and Mr. Westwood, who has very kindly re- 

 examined these genera, characterized by him in the " Grenera of 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera," comes to the same conclusion as I have, that 

 the horizontal position of the palpi of Phytala Elais, from which he 

 took his characters, probably arose from accident in the setting of the 

 British Museum specimen, since mine has the said palpi much more 

 erect. The junction of the first branch of the sub-costal nervure 

 with the costal is repeated in the species which I have called Hyetta. 

 I should have believed this to be only a malformation, did it not occur 

 on both wings of both species. The robust tibia) of the fore-legs of 

 P. Elais do not occur on any of my new species, and this alone re- 

 mains as a difference by which to separate it from Ejpiiola. 



Epitola Ceeaunia, sp. n. 



Upper-side : (^ . Dark brown. Anterior wing slightly irrorated 

 with blue, elongated, but not so much as in E. Elion. Tlie discal 



