122 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



4, Epizygcena lateralis, spec. nov. 



(? . Body dark blue, sides of prothorax, the patagia, and the spots 

 of the fore wing yellow ; a row of confluent lateral spots on abdomen 

 deep red ; upper side of anterior femur and under side of anterior and 

 median tibife and tarsi yellowish. Fore wing purplish blue, greenish 

 blue at the apex ; five spots, the first large, rounded behind, reaching 

 close to costal edge, second and third in middle, close together, the 

 third being round, the fourth at apex of cell, also round, the fifth 

 transverse, submarginal. Hind wing red, semi-transparent, costal 

 edge yellow, distal edge very narrowly black, anal angle rounded ; 

 distal margin more distinctly incurved than in the other species of 

 Epizygcena. Length of fore wing 13 mm. 



Hah. Natal. One male in the British Museum. 



5. Saliunca diformis, spec. nov. 



(7 . Body greenish blue-black, a spot on the patagia and the sides 

 of the abdomen dirty white ; the posterior abdominal segments slightly 

 iridescent. Upper side of fore wing dark bronze-green, purplish from 

 base to disc ; a basal streak, a rounded or quadrate spot at apex of cell, 

 and a more or less distinct spot between m^ and m" dirty white. Hind 

 wing purplish blue-black, like the fore wing slightly glossy ; usually a 

 streak behind cell and another at abdomnial margin transparent ; a 

 spot at apex of cell dirty white. Under side greener than upper, the 

 white basal streak of fore wing longer, the base of the costal margin of 

 fore wing and the base of hind wing from abdominal margin into cell 

 also more or less dirty white. 



? . Body greenish blue-black, without white markings. Wings 

 also without white spots. Upper side purple-green, bronze-green at 

 apex and distal margin, a little more glossy than in male ; fringe 

 purple. Hind wing blackish blue. Under side uniformly bronze- 

 green, slightly bluish, abdominal edge of fore wing and the fringe 

 purplish. Cell of hind wing truncate in male and female, the cross- 

 vein between costal and subcostal not being angulate. Length of fore 

 wing 12 to 18 mm. 



Hah. Unyoro, and, in a slightly different form, also in British 

 and German East Africa. The sexes have repeatedly been caught 

 in copula. 



6. Saliunca assimilis, spec. nov. 



^ ? . Sexes similar. Body bluish bronze-green, without white 

 markings. Upper side of wings more glossy than in S. difformis ; fore 

 wing bronze-green, with white spot at apex of cell, the male bearing a 

 second spot between the median veins. Hind wing green-blue. On 

 under side both wings bronze-green, bluish towards base. Neuration 

 as in S. diffurmis. 



Hah. Fort Johnstone, Nyassaland, January-February, 1896 

 (Dr. Percy Eendall). A pair in the Tring Museum. 



7. Saliunca nitens, spec. nov. 

 5 . Upper side of thorax and fore wing glossy green, slightly 

 bluish ; upper side of abdomen and hind wing purplish blue. Under 



