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spot, common in Theda, oblong, and placed npon the second branch 

 of the median nervure. Posterior wing irrorated with blue, chiefly 

 beyond the middle. 



Underside : anterior wing dark brown, with two small spots at 

 the end of the cell (one within it), and a snb-marginal series of 

 seven large spots, all white. Posterior wing white, with a large tri- 

 angular spot at the base, a smaller spot near the apex, and the outer 

 margin (which is broad) rufous-brown. 



Exp. IM inch. Hah. : West Africa (Rutherford). 



Epitola Cebcene, sp. n. 

 Upper-side : (^ . Ultramarine blue. Anterior wing with the 

 costal margin and apical third dark brown. Posterior wing with the 

 costal margin broadly brown. 



Under-side : pale brown. Both wings covered by numerous grey- 

 white spots, tinted with blue before the middle of the anterior wing, 

 where they form a band, and also two sub-marginal bands. 



Exp. li§ inch. Hab. : West Africa (Angola ; Rogers). 



A variety of this species has a band of darker brown, bordered 

 on both sides with white, across the middle of the anterior wing, on 

 the under- side. 



Epitola Htetta, sp. n. 



Upper-side : ^ . Anterior wing with the base of the sub-costal 

 nervure, a spot within the cell, and a sub-marginal series of six large 

 spots, brilliant ultramarine blue. Posterior wing of the same blue, 

 with the nervures and costal margin (which is broad) dark brown. 



Under-side : pale brown, the centre dark brown, marked by four 

 white spots, — one in the cell, two between it and the apex, and one 

 near the anal angle. Posterior wing with a broad white band at the 

 middle, and a sub-marginal band of grey-white. 



Exp. Ito inch. Sab. : West Africa (Angola ; Rogers). 



Epitola Carcina, sp. n. 



Upper-side : ? . Rufous-brown. Anterior wing crossed near 

 the middle, fi'om the costal margin to the second branch of the 

 median nervule, by a band of five white spots ; irrorated with blue 

 from the middle of the wing to the middle of the inner margin. 

 Posterior wing cerulean blue from the base to the middle, except on 

 the costal margin, where it is brown. 



