﻿LYC.ENID.E 
  (African). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  Xlll. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  EPITOLA. 
  (III.) 
  

   Epifola, 
  Westw. 
  {aiiU'a, 
  pp. 
  23, 
  27). 
  

  

  VIII.— 
  EPITOLA 
  PINODES. 
  ? 
  . 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  

  

  Epitola 
  Pinodcs, 
  H. 
  H. 
  Druce, 
  "Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History," 
  

   ser. 
  6, 
  vol. 
  3, 
  p. 
  24 
  (January, 
  1890). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1\ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Upperside 
  brown. 
  

  

  Underside 
  light 
  rufous-brown, 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  lower 
  two-thirds 
  

   filled 
  up 
  with 
  blackish, 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  ; 
  inner 
  margin 
  greyish-brow^n 
  : 
  

   fringes 
  blackish. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  uniform 
  in 
  colour. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  ringed 
  with 
  white, 
  and 
  tipped 
  with 
  reddish. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Sierra 
  Leone 
  (Preuss) 
  and 
  Lagos. 
  

  

  Iq 
  the 
  Collections 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger 
  and 
  of 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  H. 
  Druce. 
  

  

  Not 
  closely 
  allied 
  to 
  any 
  other 
  species. 
  Mr. 
  Druce 
  describes 
  the 
  male 
  from 
  Lagos. 
  It 
  

   appears 
  only 
  to 
  differ 
  from 
  the 
  female, 
  as 
  above 
  described, 
  in 
  being 
  slightly 
  scaled 
  with 
  blue 
  above. 
  

  

  IX.— 
  EPITOLA 
  STAUDINGERI. 
  $ 
  . 
  Figs. 
  3, 
  4. 
  

  

  Epitola 
  Stand 
  iiKjerl, 
  Kirby, 
  " 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History," 
  

   ser. 
  G, 
  vol. 
  4, 
  p. 
  271 
  (September, 
  1890). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  Ij 
  inches. 
  

  

  ''Male. 
  Upperside 
  bright 
  blue, 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  costa, 
  apex, 
  and 
  

   hind 
  margin 
  narrowly 
  black 
  ; 
  a 
  very 
  large 
  oblong 
  black 
  blotch 
  projects 
  into 
  the 
  

   wing 
  from 
  the 
  lower 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  margin, 
  tilling 
  up 
  the 
  whole 
  spaci' 
  nearly 
  

   to 
  the 
  cell, 
  from 
  the 
  inner 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  discocellular 
  iiervure 
  to 
  below 
  the 
  

  

  VOL. 
  I., 
  APRII., 
  1891. 
  X 
  X 
  

  

  