new Species of African Lyca3nida3. 271 



In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 



Allied to T. dispavj Kirb., and T. melissa^ Druce, but 

 differs from the former and apparently also from the latter in 

 the markings of the underside. 



Teriomima duhia. 



Exp. -^Q inch. 



Male. — Upperside brown, distinctly suffused with purple, 

 and with or without a whitish spot beyond the end of the 

 cell of the anterior wings. 



Underside brown, with two or three tawny spots or 

 marking's in the cells and an indistinct double row of sub- 

 marginal tawny markings ; the white spot as above on ante- 

 rior wings, and an interrupted, rather indistinct, tawny stripe 

 running beyond the cell on the posterior wings. 



Antennae black, ringed with white ; club tipped with 

 orange. Body rich purple and coppery green in some lights. 



Hab. Sierra Leone and Barombi, Cameroons (^Preuss) . 



In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 



Perhaps a variety of T. melissa, Druce. 



Epitola hadiira. 



Exp. 1| inch. 



Male. — Anterior wings rather pointed; posterior wings 

 rounded. 



Upperside deep blue. Anterior wings with the costa 

 (broadly), apical third, hind margin, and a basal stripe on 

 the lower part of the cell black ; inner margin witli a few 

 coppery-green scales. Posterior wings with the costa broadly 

 and hind margin narrowly black. 



Underside greyish brown, with a row of subraarginal 

 lunules of greyish dusting, within which is a broader stripe of 

 the same kind ; across the wings runs an irregular series of 

 lines and zigzags of greyish dusting. 



Hab. Cameroons. 



In the Hewitson Collection of the British Museum as the 

 male of E. cercene, Hew. ; and in that of Mr. PI. Grose Smith. 



Allied to E. dunia, Kirb., but of a deeper blue and 

 without the oblique pale zigzag line on the underside of the 

 anterior wings. 



Epitola Staudingeri. 



Exp. 1| inch. 



Male. — Upperside bright blue. Anterior wings with the 



