274 On new Species of African Lycajnidaj. 



Epitola perdita, 



Exp. rather over an inch. 



]\[ale. — Anterior wings rather pointed, with tlie liind mar- 

 gin oblique. Posterior wings oblong, nearly rectangular. 



Uppcrside black. Anterior wings rich blue from below 

 the cell to the inner margin. Posterior wings with a large 

 blue patch filling up two thirds of the lower part of the wing, 

 but nowhere extending to the margins. 



Underside: Anterior wings slate colour, with a pale grey 

 spot at the end of the cell and two more, nearly connected, 

 near the hinder angle ; apex reddish, edged by a submarginal 

 coppery-green line from near the apex to the middle of the hind 

 margin. Posterior wings reddish, shading into buff towards 

 the base, with a submarginal row of silvery-green lunules, 

 edged with black within and (less distinctly) without. A 

 Y-shaped series of silvery-green markings edged with black 

 lines, not extending to the costa, across the middle of the 

 wing. 



hah. Camcroons. 



In the collection of Mr. H. Grose Smith. 



Epitola (?) harombiensis. 



Kx]). rather more than an inch. 



Anterior wings obtusely pointed at the apex, with the hind 

 margin very convex. Posterior wings rounded. 



Upperside purplish blue. Anterior wings with the costa, 

 apex, hind margin, and nervurcs black ; cell black, with 

 irregular purplish markings towards the base ; inner margin 

 but thinly scaled with purple. Posterior wings with the costa 

 and inner margin broadly and the hind margin more nar- 

 rowly black. 



Underside grey, a dark brown cloud extending from the 

 base of the inner margin obliquely to beyond the cell ; thence, 

 after an interruption, it spreads more broadly over the whole 

 apical portion of the hind margin, except where it is sliglitly 

 interrupted towards the costa before the apex. Posterior 

 wings speckled with smoky brown, darkest on the hind mar- 

 gin, where it shades into a broad border, ill-detincd towards 

 the base and not extending to the anal angle. 



Hob. Barombi, Cameroons [Pretiss). 



In the collection of Dr. Staudingcr. 



