272 Mr. W. F. Kirby on 



costa, apex, and hind margin narrowly black ; a very large 

 oblong black blotch projects into the wing from the lower 

 part of the hind margin, filling up the whole space nearly to 

 the cell, from the inner half of tlie upper discocellular ner- 

 vure to below the lowest branch of the median nervure. 

 Posterior wings blue, with the costa, inner margin, and 

 fringes black. 



Underside uniform greyish brown, without markings. 

 Legs brown, ringed with grey. 



Hah. Sierra Leone {Preuss). 



h\ the collections of Dr. Staudinger and of Mr. P. Crowley. 



Epitola zelica. 



Exp. Ij-l^ inch. 



Uppcrside light blue, with a purplish shade in some lights. 

 Anterior wings with the costa above the cell and the apex 

 broadly blackish brown, the dark colour diminishing trian- 

 gularly to the hinder angle. Posterior wings with the costa 

 above the cell, the inner margin, and the hind margin (nar- 

 rowly) blackish brown. 



Underside white, with an obsolete straight pale yellowish 

 line and two or three obsolete zigzag lines between this and 

 the cell. In the female these indistinct markings are 

 wanting, and there is only a blackish line at the base of the 

 fringes of the anterior wings, which is also present in the 

 male. 



The sexes do not differ otherwise. 



Ilah. Barombi, Cameroons {Preuss). 



In the collection of Dr. Standi nger. 



Allied to E. zenna, Hew., but in that species the ujiperside 

 is of a deeper blue and the underside is much more heavily 

 marked. 



Epitola Henleyi. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



Upperside black and deep violet-blue, the blue portions of 

 the wing broken up into spots by black spaces, especially 

 along the nervures. 



Underside brown ; a pale space on the imicr margin of 

 anterior wings, from which two rows of jiale submarginal 

 spots run towards the costa — the outermost row formed of 

 three nearly contiguous spots ; the innermost row of three 

 spots, of which the two upper ones arc contiguous, separated 

 from the third. Posterior wings with traces of two paler 

 bands, parallel to the hind margin. 



