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  LYC^NID^ 
  (AFRICAN). 
  EPITOLA. 
  

  

  and 
  the 
  costa 
  runs 
  a 
  curved 
  row 
  of 
  four 
  rather 
  small 
  blue 
  spots. 
  The 
  sub- 
  

   median 
  nervure 
  is 
  likewise 
  slightly 
  marked 
  with 
  blue 
  towards 
  the 
  base, 
  both 
  

   above 
  and 
  below. 
  Posterior 
  wings, 
  with 
  the 
  lower 
  two-thirds 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  

   the 
  outer 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  wing, 
  excejit 
  towards 
  the 
  margins, 
  filled 
  up 
  with 
  purplish 
  

   blue, 
  divided 
  into 
  spots 
  by 
  the 
  rather 
  broad 
  blackish 
  nervures. 
  

  

  Underside 
  brown, 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  grey 
  spots 
  and 
  markings, 
  in, 
  above 
  

   and 
  beyond 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  and 
  with 
  two 
  rows 
  of 
  grey 
  sub- 
  

   marginal 
  markings, 
  the 
  innermost 
  ))ifid 
  towards 
  the 
  costa. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  

   irregularly 
  mottled 
  with 
  dark 
  brown 
  and 
  purplish 
  grey, 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  marked 
  

   with 
  several 
  rather 
  large 
  round 
  blackish 
  spots 
  on 
  a 
  bluish-grey 
  ground. 
  

  

  Antennae 
  long 
  and 
  slender, 
  with 
  a 
  large 
  club 
  tipped 
  with 
  rufous. 
  

   Anterior 
  wings 
  emarginate 
  below 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  posterior 
  wings 
  strongly 
  

   dentated, 
  as 
  in 
  Vanessa. 
  

  

  According 
  to 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger, 
  the 
  female 
  is 
  dull 
  brown, 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  whitish 
  

   markings. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Sierra 
  Leone 
  (Preuss). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collections 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger 
  and 
  H. 
  Grose 
  Smith. 
  

  

  Somewhat 
  allied 
  to 
  F. 
  Falkensteini, 
  Dewitz. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  same 
  paper 
  in 
  which 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger 
  describes 
  E. 
  Miranda 
  he 
  descrilies 
  another 
  

   handsome 
  species 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  locality, 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  E. 
  Hewitsonii, 
  which 
  we 
  should 
  like- 
  

   wise 
  have 
  figured 
  here, 
  hut 
  that 
  it 
  has 
  lately 
  been 
  redescribed 
  and 
  figured 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  

   E. 
  Crowleyi, 
  Sharpe 
  ("Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History," 
  ser. 
  6, 
  vol. 
  6, 
  p. 
  106 
  (1890) 
  ; 
  

   " 
  Transactions 
  of 
  the 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  of 
  London," 
  1890, 
  p. 
  555, 
  pi. 
  xvii. 
  ff. 
  6, 
  7). 
  

  

  GENUS 
  ASLAUGA. 
  

  

  Aslauga, 
  Kirb. 
  [antca, 
  vol. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  83). 
  

  

  IL— 
  ASLAUGA 
  PUEPUEASCENS. 
  ? 
  . 
  Figs. 
  7, 
  8. 
  

  

  Epltola 
  Purpiirasccns, 
  Holland, 
  "Psyche," 
  vol. 
  5, 
  p. 
  424 
  (1890). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Upperside 
  very 
  pale 
  blue 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  shading 
  outwardly 
  into 
  

   bluish 
  grey. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  costa 
  grey, 
  but 
  the 
  

   upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  brown, 
  which 
  colour 
  then 
  extends 
  to 
  the 
  costa 
  and 
  apex, 
  

   and 
  more 
  narrowly 
  to 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  wings. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  

   the 
  costa 
  slightly 
  concave 
  beyond 
  the 
  middle, 
  the 
  apex 
  slightly 
  pointed, 
  and 
  the 
  

  

  