﻿LYC^NID.E 
  (African). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  XYII. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  EPITOLA. 
  IV. 
  

   Epituhi, 
  Westw. 
  iai,t,;i), 
  pp. 
  23, 
  27, 
  53. 
  

  

  XIY.— 
  EPITOLA 
  DOLETA. 
  g 
  . 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  

  

  Epitola 
  Dolrtii, 
  Kirl)y, 
  " 
  Annrtls 
  and 
  ^Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History," 
  ser. 
  G. 
  

   vol. 
  4, 
  p. 
  273 
  (September, 
  18'.)0). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  " 
  31ale. 
  Upperside 
  blackish-])ro\vn, 
  with 
  l)riglit 
  bin,' 
  markings. 
  Anterior 
  

   wings 
  with 
  scattered 
  blue 
  markings 
  towards 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  a 
  short 
  bur 
  

   just 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  costa, 
  running 
  obliquely 
  outwards, 
  and 
  a 
  band 
  

   running 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  between 
  the 
  median 
  and 
  submedian 
  nervures. 
  

   Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  whole 
  space 
  between 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  and 
  

   the 
  submedian 
  nervure 
  filled 
  up 
  with 
  blue 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  hind 
  margin. 
  

  

  "Underside 
  as 
  in 
  E. 
  Cataun 
  (postca) 
  ; 
  in 
  one 
  specimen 
  the 
  paler 
  markings 
  

   are 
  almost 
  entirely 
  obsolete." 
  (Kirby, 
  lor. 
  cit.) 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Sierra 
  Leone 
  (Preuss). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger. 
  

  

  Perhaps 
  the 
  male 
  of 
  E. 
  Ce}ihena, 
  Hew., 
  which 
  it 
  somewhat 
  resembles 
  iu 
  the 
  undersurface. 
  

  

  XV.— 
  EPITOLA 
  HENLEYI. 
  Figs. 
  3, 
  4. 
  

  

  Epitola 
  Henley 
  i, 
  Kirby, 
  "Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History," 
  ser. 
  ('», 
  

   vol. 
  4, 
  p. 
  272 
  (September, 
  1890). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  " 
  Upperside 
  black, 
  and 
  deep 
  violet-blue, 
  the 
  blue 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  

   wing 
  broken 
  up 
  into 
  spots 
  by 
  black 
  spaces, 
  especially 
  along 
  the 
  nervures. 
  

  

  " 
  Underside 
  brown, 
  a 
  pale 
  space 
  in 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  of 
  anterior 
  wings. 
  

  

  VOL. 
  I., 
  APRIL, 
  1892. 
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