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C. LEPIDOPTERA. 
V. Description of new Species of Lepidoptera, chiefly 
Lycaenidae from Southern Nigeria, and one from 
Damba Island, Victoria Nyanza. By G. T. 
BrETHUNE-BAKER. 
a. LIPTENINAE. 
Epitola lamborni, sp. n. 
Q. Primaries, upperside, costa broadly dark ash-grey, termen 
broader and darker grey, cell and basal three-quarters of fold 
covered with very pale blue scales over a whitish ground which 
shows through as a white spot beyond the end of the cell and as 
three or four larger spots in the postmedian area ; there is a blackish 
blotch beyond the lower angle of the cell and another at the upper 
angle; these are more narrowly confluent between veins 4 and 5. 
Secondaries pale ash-grey with the basal and median areas between 
veins 1 and 6 covered with very pale blue scales. Fringes whitish 
with the veins darkly intersecting. 
Underside, both wings white with grey markings. Primaries 
with three spots in the cell, a grey area all round the cell with a 
good deal of white scaling over it, this grey area is projected right 
outwards between veins 3 and 4 but recedes somewhat basewards, 
above vein 4 it recedes and is sharply crenulate, a very irregular 
white area follows and is succeeded by two rows of very pale grey 
crenulate markings obsolescing towards the tornus. Secondaries 
with a basal grey dash, two sub-basal grey spots across the cell, 
beyond which is a series of about 5 confluent spots across the 
middle of the cell which is closed by a narrowish dash with a whitish 
centre, most of the spots have also more or less whitish centres ; 
beyond the cell a very irregular crenulate area of grey and whitish, 
an irregular broadish clear whitish area follows and is succeeded 
by two submarginal crenulate grey lines with whitish filling between ; 
termen finely grey. 
Expanse 40 mm, 
Hab. Moor Plantation, near Ibadan, 8. Nigeria. 
Type in the Oxford Museum. 
I name this after the wonderfully assiduous and able 
naturalist who bred it on Oct. 29, 1913, from a pupa found 
two days earlier. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1921.—PaRTS IU, IV. (JAN.’22.) HH 
