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  (oriental). 
  EPIMASTIDIA. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  EPIMASTIDIA. 
  

  

  Epiiiiastidia, 
  H. 
  H. 
  Druce, 
  " 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society 
  of 
  

   London," 
  1891, 
  p. 
  365. 
  

  

  I.— 
  EPIMASTIDIA 
  ALBOCiEEULEA. 
  i 
  . 
  Figs. 
  6,7. 
  5 
  . 
  Fig. 
  8. 
  

  

  Epimastidia 
  Alhocandca, 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith, 
  " 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  

   Natural 
  History," 
  ser. 
  6, 
  vol. 
  13, 
  p. 
  501 
  (1894). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1^-1^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Upperside 
  brilliant 
  cerulean-blue, 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  margins 
  of 
  both 
  

   wings 
  narrowly 
  black. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  costal 
  third 
  and 
  inner 
  margin 
  

   greyish-black. 
  

  

  Underside 
  white, 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  margins 
  of 
  both 
  wings 
  dull 
  black, 
  centred 
  

   with 
  velvety-black 
  lunules, 
  bordered 
  inwardly 
  with 
  bright 
  blue 
  lunules, 
  and 
  

   outwardly 
  with 
  conical 
  bright 
  blue 
  spots, 
  towards 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  series 
  

   of 
  velvety-black 
  bars, 
  almost 
  covering 
  the 
  outer 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  blue 
  spots, 
  which 
  is 
  

   only 
  indistinctly 
  seen. 
  

  

  Body 
  black 
  above, 
  clothed 
  with 
  bluish-grey 
  hair, 
  mostly 
  white 
  beneath. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Upperside 
  blue, 
  with 
  the 
  hind 
  margins 
  broadly, 
  and 
  the 
  costa 
  

   of 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  more 
  narrowly, 
  black. 
  Inner 
  margin 
  of 
  posterior 
  

   wings 
  grey. 
  

  

  Underside 
  yellowish-white, 
  inner 
  marginal 
  area 
  of 
  anterior 
  wings 
  broadly 
  

   pure 
  white 
  ; 
  costa 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  wings 
  edged 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  black 
  line. 
  The 
  

   inner 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  black 
  border 
  is 
  a 
  little 
  dentated, 
  and 
  it 
  contains 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  

   oblong 
  deeper 
  black 
  spots, 
  a 
  little 
  rounded 
  inwardly, 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  bordered 
  

   with 
  blue 
  curves 
  ; 
  towards 
  the 
  margin 
  they 
  are 
  crossed 
  by 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  long 
  

   subtriangular 
  or 
  lunular 
  blue 
  spots, 
  which, 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings, 
  rest 
  on 
  slender 
  

   blue 
  bases, 
  which 
  are 
  merely 
  indicated 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings. 
  

  

  Body 
  bluish-grey 
  above 
  ; 
  white 
  beneath. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  New 
  Britain 
  (Webster 
  and 
  Eibbe). 
  

  

  The 
  Male 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith, 
  and 
  the 
  Female 
  in 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  

   Rothschild's 
  Collection. 
  

  

  Very 
  near 
  E. 
  Arienis, 
  Druce, 
  from 
  the 
  Solomon 
  Islands, 
  but 
  more 
  brilliant 
  blue 
  on 
  the 
  

   upperside, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  underside 
  the 
  outer 
  dark 
  margins, 
  in 
  "which 
  the 
  blue 
  lunules 
  and 
  spots 
  are 
  

   very 
  brightly 
  distinguished, 
  are 
  broader 
  and 
  blacker. 
  

  

  