Species of Lycenide from West Africa. 329 
same colour. Secondaries velvety black, the whole of the 
area between the fifth median and the internal vein being 
bright blue, the posterior margin being narrowly black. 
Underside: both wings a peculiar shiny slaty grey. Pri- 
maries with the lower half to the inner margin sooty black, 
in which near the anal angle are two good-sized grey inde- 
finite marks, the lower one being the larger. Secondaries 
with a very indistinct trace of a submarginal row of greyish 
crescentic marks, and a yet slighter trace of a pale narrow 
band nearer the cell. 
?. Both wings uniform dark brown; the primaries with a 
darker patch in the central area caused by the black patch of 
the underside showing through. Underside: both wings 
ochreous. Primaries with the central area from the base to 
nearly the posterior margin sooty black, the inner margin being 
pale grey ; just beyond the cell at the upper edge of the black 
area are two small whitish spots. Secondaries with a faint 
trace of a submarginal row of paler spots, followed by a 
second equally faint nearer the cell. 
Exp. alar., ¢ 34, 2 41 millim. 
Occurring in February and June in Sierra Leone. 
Epitola albomaculata, sp. n. 
6- Upperside: both wings pale sublustrous azure-blue. 
Primaries with blackish-brown costa to the cell and all the 
area above the fourth median vein; posterior margin very 
broadly blackish brown at the afore-mentioned vein, very 
rapidly decreasing to a fine margin at the anal angle. Second- 
aries with the costa dark brown, extending just into the cell 
and so straight to the posterior margin; posterior margin 
finely black, inner margin dark grey to the submedian vein. 
Underside: both wings greyish brown, more or less irrorated 
with grey and with various greyish spots. Primaries: cell * 
grey, invaded by three large spots of the brown ground-colour ; 
basal area of the first three median veins grey; a perpendi- 
cular fascia of five greyish spots to the first median vein, that 
near the costa small and indefinite, the other spots increasing 
cousiderably in size, beyond this a submarginal fascia of grey 
crescentic spots between each of the veins to the first median, 
followed by another similar marginal fascia only somewhat 
straighter. Secondaries with three transverse interrupted pale 
fascias across the wing at the base, across the middle of the 
cell, and across the end of the cell, beyond which is a trans- 
verse row of largish indefinite whitish spots from the costa to 
the submedian vein; between this row and the fascia across 
