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  LYC.TINID.E 
  (AFRICAN). 
  EPITOLA. 
  

  

  from 
  which 
  two 
  rows 
  of 
  pale 
  submargiiial 
  spots 
  run 
  towards 
  the 
  costa, 
  the 
  outer- 
  

   most 
  of 
  three 
  nearly 
  contiguous 
  spots, 
  the 
  innermost 
  of 
  three 
  spots, 
  but 
  the 
  two 
  

   upper 
  ones 
  contiguous, 
  separated 
  from 
  the 
  third 
  ; 
  posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  traces 
  

   of 
  two 
  paler 
  bands, 
  parallel 
  to 
  the 
  hind 
  margin." 
  (Kirby, 
  lor. 
  cit.) 
  

   Hab. 
  Barombi, 
  Cameroons 
  (Preuss). 
  

  

  lu 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger. 
  

  

  Upperside 
  hardly 
  distiuguishal>le 
  from 
  E. 
  Hyetti, 
  Hew., 
  -witli 
  wIiil'Li 
  a 
  sp?cim?n 
  from 
  

   Calabar 
  is 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  Hewilson 
  Collection, 
  but 
  the 
  underside 
  is 
  very 
  different. 
  

  

  XVI.— 
  EPITOLA 
  CICONIA. 
  Figs. 
  5, 
  6. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Upperside, 
  sky-blue. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  costa 
  and 
  apex 
  broadly 
  

   brown, 
  hind 
  margin 
  with 
  the 
  brown 
  border 
  narrowing 
  to 
  the 
  hinder 
  angle, 
  the 
  

   nervures 
  brown, 
  the 
  median 
  broadly, 
  and 
  two 
  indentations 
  on 
  the 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  

   blue 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  wing 
  nearest 
  the 
  costa. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  blue, 
  with 
  the 
  costa 
  

   and 
  inner 
  margin 
  broadly 
  and 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  narrowly 
  black. 
  

  

  Underside 
  brown, 
  with 
  rather 
  indistinct 
  pale 
  grey 
  markings 
  ; 
  a 
  double 
  

   row 
  of 
  submargiual 
  lunules, 
  and 
  a 
  narrow 
  indistinct 
  and 
  zigzag 
  series 
  of 
  dashes 
  

   across 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  wings. 
  There 
  is 
  another 
  more 
  regular 
  row 
  of 
  small 
  

   grey 
  dashes 
  between 
  this 
  and 
  the 
  submarginal 
  series 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  ; 
  

   on 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  nearly 
  connected 
  lunules 
  runs 
  from 
  two-thirds 
  

   of 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  costa, 
  obliquely 
  to 
  the 
  submarginal 
  lunules 
  at 
  the 
  hinder 
  

   angle, 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  slightly 
  suffused. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  black, 
  club 
  tawny 
  at 
  the 
  extreme 
  apex 
  and 
  beneath 
  ; 
  legs 
  stout, 
  

   brown, 
  spotted 
  with 
  dull 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Sierra 
  Leone 
  (?) 
  

  

  lu 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger. 
  

  

  Resembles 
  E. 
  Carcina. 
  Hew. 
  (which 
  appears 
  to 
  us 
  to 
  be 
  quite 
  distinct 
  from 
  the 
  species 
  

   figured 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger 
  under 
  that 
  name), 
  in 
  the 
  position 
  of 
  the 
  oblique 
  row 
  of 
  pale 
  markings 
  

   on 
  the 
  underside 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  win^s. 
  

  

  XYIL— 
  EPITOLA 
  GOODII. 
  Figs. 
  7, 
  8. 
  

  

  Epitola 
  Goodii, 
  Holland, 
  "Psyche," 
  V. 
  p. 
  42-1 
  (November, 
  1890). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1:^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Upperside 
  purplish-blue. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  costa 
  a])ovc 
  the 
  cell, 
  

  

  