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XVI. — Description of a new Species oyEpipliora (SaturniMiB) 

 from Uganda. By W. F. KiRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 Assistant in Zoological Department, British Museum 

 (Natural History). 



Epipliora Liigardi, sp. n. 



Exp. 4{ inches. 



Female. — Upperside dark vinous red, with a xtvy large 

 subvitreous ocellus on each wing, surrounded by white and 

 yellow rings, and, lastly, by a narrow black line. Anterior 

 wings with the ocellus truncated on the basal side and sliglitly 

 conical on the outer side ; beyond it, but not touching it, runs 

 a paler reddish line, nearly obsolete above, but slightly marked 

 with whitish below, beyond wliich the ground-colour of the 

 wing becomes rather lighter. The subapical ocellus is rather 

 large, black, and oval, narrowly edged with white towards 

 the base, and with the adjacent part dusted with blue ; above 

 it an irregularly zigzag line runs to the costa, bordered 

 within by a lilac patch and without by a dull orange space 

 dusted with red ; tliere is also a smaller orange space below 

 the ocellus ; beyond this the hind margin is yellowish buff, 

 but from the outer side of the upper orange patch descends a 

 brown submarginal line, forming four deep curves inwards 

 below the eye and also sliglitly indented on each of the ner- 

 vures ; the spaces between these curves, as well as beyond 

 the eye and witiiin the line below the last curve, are yellovyish 

 green. 



Posterior wings with the large ocellus subrotund, the black 

 outer ring wider, the pale curved line beyond more dusted 

 with whitish and curved outwards on the inner margin. Hind 

 margin buff, edged within by a black line, within which is a 

 yellowish-green space, dentated on the inner side above and 

 intersected by a series of long black nearly confluent spots. 



Underside much paler, thickly dusted with white, and with 

 a well-marked white line, edged within with blackish, beyond 

 the ocelli, in place of the nearly obsolete line above. The 

 outer part of the wings inclines to dull green, and on the 

 anterior wings between the festoons, and on the posterior 

 wings within the inner greenish-yellow submarginal band, are 

 a series of white sagittate spots on each side of the nervures. 

 Anterior wings with a buff space on the inner margin as far 

 as the white line, bordered above with blackish. Posterior 

 wing with the base of the costa white to the subcostal nervure. 

 Body too much injured to be described; but abdomen 



