Species of West- African LycsBnidae. 71 



Besides the three species described above, Mr. Gordon has 

 sent some other interesting species of Lipteninae to the Hope 

 Museum, and amongst them are : — Tetraharnis ilma, Hew., 

 and var. simplex, Auriv., from Bonny ; Pseuderesia libeniina, 

 Hew., and Citrinophila similis, Kirby (which has an extra- 

 ordinary resemblance to Terias hrigitta), from Siloko ; Liptena 

 caynpimusj Holland, captured near Warrige ; Liptena sp. near 

 lyhia, Staudinger, from Sapele ; and several specimens of a 

 Phytala which I have been unable to determine. 



Epamera viirahilis, sp. n. 



S . Allied to Epamera tasis, Hew.* 



Upperside rather darker blue. Fore wings with the apical 

 and costal areas more broadly black, the inner margin very 

 distinctly concave, but not so markedly as in E. tasis, and 

 without the notch beyond the middle, and with no trace of 

 the white edging so conspicuous in that species. Hind wing 

 with the apex more broadly black ; the abdominal folds 

 blacker and dusted with blue scales almost up to the white 

 cilia, especially towards the base, with the shining patch 

 much whiter, not bordered with pure white as in E. lasis, and 

 without any internal patch of differently placed rough-looking 

 scales. 



The underside difftrs from that of E. iasis by the apex and 

 outer margin of the fore wing being clouded with pale brown, 

 by the ultra-median line being more distinct, and by the 

 shining patch being more conspicuous and extensive, t. e. 

 reaching broadly to the outer angle, where it becomes blackish 

 and darker towards the margin ; the inner margin is entirely 

 without the row of long liairs which are so conspicuous a 

 character in E. iasis. Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish 

 above, white below ; legs white, with black spots ; frons 

 yellow. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Hah. Sierra Leone, W. Africa (Mus. Diuce). 



This species is one of very considerable interest on account 

 of the entire absence of the usual patch of differently placed 

 scales on the large shining space of the hind wing above and 

 also of the row of long hairs attached to the inner margin of 

 the hind wing below. I know of no other butterfly of the 

 family to which these remarks can apply, unless it be the 

 South-American Thecla baraj'o, Rkt., which has a large 

 shining patch on the hind wing above, but the shining area 



* lolaus tasis, Hew. 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 42, t. xix. figs. 11, 12 (1865). 



