Species of Rhopalocera from Sierra Leone. 227 



Epitolina Catori, sp. n. 



^. Thorax, abdomen, and both wings dark steely blue, 

 with a slight purplish tint. Fringes intersected white and 

 blackish. Underside darkish neutral grey with red markings : 

 primaries with three red transverse dashes in the cell, above 

 the cell thickly irrorated with red, two red costal spots 

 followed by a short red irregular stripe, another small red 

 costal spot, and a terminal double red line enclosing the 

 ground-colour, and so making a row of spots edged with red : 

 secondaries with three basal spotj and red irrorations above, 

 followed by two more spots in the cell, with one above and 

 below, that below being a double spot; a postmedial red 

 spotted stripe, with a space between the two costal spots and 

 those below vein 6; a very distinct double, red, terminal line 

 enclosing spots of the ground-colour — this character is most 

 conspicuous in the secondaries. 



? . Both wings brown : primaries with a very broad 

 orange patch, tapering rapidly towards the costa, but not 

 extending up to the costa: underside like the male, but the pri- 

 maries have the orange patch showing through and extending 

 right across the wing, the grey of the ground-colour is paler, 

 and most of the spots are redder and are rather more accen- 

 tuated, but the pattern is less distinct. 



Expanse, ^ 31, ? 29 mm. 



Several specimens were sent home by Mr Cator, and it is 

 a well-marked species. 



Phytala leonina. 



This species was described by me in this Magazine last year 

 at page 328 (vol. xii.), and I placed it in the genus Phytala ; 

 but Mr. Cator subsequently brought home more material, 

 enabling me to denude the underside of the scales, and this 

 shows that veins 11 and 12 of the primaries do not actually 

 anastomose, but merely touch each other ; the species should 

 therefore be transferred to the genus Epitola. Staudinger, 

 however, has already described an Epitola leonina, so that 

 my species will require a new name. 1 therefore propose to 

 call it Epitola leonensis. 



Epitola Dorothea. 



cJ . Palpi cream-coloured at base and at the base of the 

 second segment, which is ovate in shape ; terminal segment 

 and upper part of second segment brown. 



Both wings bright blue. Primaries with the costa to 



