﻿LYCiENIDJ]: 
  (African). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  VI. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  EPITOLA. 
  (I.) 
  

  

  Epitola, 
  Westwood, 
  " 
  Genera 
  of 
  Diurnal 
  Lepidoptera," 
  p. 
  470 
  (1852). 
  

  

  This 
  genus, 
  as 
  at 
  present 
  employed, 
  includes 
  three 
  very 
  distinct 
  groups 
  of 
  

   species, 
  and 
  will 
  doubtless 
  be 
  subdivided 
  when 
  our 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  African 
  

   Liicanidw 
  is 
  more 
  complete. 
  The 
  first 
  section 
  includes 
  Epitola 
  Elion, 
  Westw., 
  

   the 
  type 
  of 
  the 
  genus, 
  a 
  large 
  insect, 
  with 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   wings 
  strongly 
  emarginate 
  ; 
  the 
  second 
  section 
  may 
  be 
  represented 
  by 
  

   E. 
  Ceraunia, 
  Hew., 
  a 
  smaller 
  insect, 
  with 
  rather 
  long 
  anterior 
  wings, 
  with 
  the 
  

   hind 
  margin 
  oblique 
  and 
  less 
  strongly 
  emarginate, 
  while 
  the 
  third 
  section 
  

   includes 
  numerous 
  comparatively 
  small 
  species, 
  with 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  shorter, 
  

   and 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  generally 
  rounded. 
  

  

  I.— 
  EPITOLA 
  URANIA, 
  i 
  . 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  

  

  Epitola 
  Urania, 
  Kirby, 
  " 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History," 
  ser. 
  5, 
  

   vol. 
  19, 
  p. 
  441 
  (June, 
  1887). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  2f 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  : 
  costa 
  strongly 
  arched, 
  tip 
  rounded 
  and 
  produced, 
  

   the 
  hind 
  margin 
  deeply 
  concave, 
  and 
  then 
  rounded 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  margin. 
  Hind 
  

   wings 
  rounded, 
  more 
  obtusely 
  towards 
  the 
  inner 
  margin. 
  

  

  Upperside 
  rich 
  blue, 
  shading 
  into 
  purple 
  towards 
  the 
  edges 
  ; 
  costa 
  black 
  

   as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  subcostal 
  nervure, 
  but 
  the 
  blue 
  extending 
  nearly 
  to 
  its 
  edge 
  for 
  

   about 
  the 
  middle 
  third 
  of 
  its 
  length 
  ; 
  apical 
  third 
  of 
  costa 
  black, 
  its 
  boundary, 
  

   except 
  that 
  the 
  blue 
  projects 
  slightly 
  into 
  it 
  beyond 
  the 
  cell, 
  falling 
  nearly 
  

   straight 
  to 
  the 
  extremity 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  margin, 
  where 
  the 
  black 
  border 
  narrows 
  

   and 
  disa{)i)ears. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  black 
  border, 
  extending 
  roiind 
  

   the 
  hind 
  and 
  inner 
  margins, 
  and 
  narrowest 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  margin. 
  

  

  VOL. 
  I., 
  JANUABY, 
  1889. 
  P 
  

  

  