new Species of African Lycainidte. 27."3 



Hah. Barombi, Cameroons (Freuss). 



In the collection of Dr. Staudingei'. 



Upperside hfirdly distin,2;uisliable from E. /if/etta, Hew., 

 with which a specimen of E. Henleyi from Calabar is ])laced 

 in the Hewitson Collection of the British Museum ; but the 

 underside is very different, 



Epitola catuna. 



Exp. 1-li in. 



Male. — Upperside deep purplish blue, with rather broad 

 blackish margins, the nervures narrowly black; fringes grey. 



Underside greyish brown. Anterior wings darker at the 

 base to beyond the cell ; at the end of the cell stands an 

 obsolete grey spot ; the darker portion of the wing is bounded 

 by a row of obsolete grey spots, much expanded on the inner 

 margin ; on the hind margin is a row of obsolete grey lunules, 

 dividing into two rows on the upper half of the wing. Pos- 

 terior wings with three submarginal rows of broad obsolete 

 grey lunules, the innermost most indistinct. 



Antennge and legs very slightly ringed with white, only 

 the extreme tip of the former tawny. 



Hah. Cameroons {Preuss). 



In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 



Resembles E. liyetta^ Hew., on the upperside, and the group 

 of E. cercene, Hew., below. 



Epitola doleta. 



Exp. 1^ inch. 



Male. — Upperside blackish brown, with bright blue 

 markings. Anterior wings with scattered blue markings 

 towards the base of the cell, a short bar just beyond the 

 middle of the costa running obliquely outwards, and a band 

 running nearly to the hind margin between the median and 

 submedian nervures. Posterior wings with the whole space 

 between the upper part of the cell and the submedian nervure 

 filled up with blue nearly to the hind margin. 



Underside as in E. catuna ; in one specimen the paler 

 markings are almost entirely obsolete. 



Hah. Sierra Leone [Preuss). 



In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 



Perhaps the male of E. cephena, Hew., which it somewhat 

 resembles on the under surface. 



