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dusted with pale blue scales. Hind wing uniform dark grey. 

 Cilia paler. Under side as in male, excepting that the white area 

 of the fore wing is reproduced as on upper side. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hob. Bitje, Ja river, Cameroons, 2000 ft., dry season (G. L. 

 Bates). 



Types, Mus. Druce. 



Near to Epitola dorothea Beth. -Baker *, but vein 1 of the fore 

 wing is not heavily thickened and the shape of the wings is 

 different, the outer margin of the fore wing being decidedly 

 concave and the hind wing not angled. 



Described from five specimens. 



Epitola tumentia, sp. n. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 15, S •) 



Male. Upper side : fore wing dark smoky brown ; inner 

 marginal area from base to vein 3 shining blue, not reaching 

 beyond the wall of the cell. The base of vein 2 is much swollen 

 almost to the origin of vein 3. Hind wing suffused with shining 

 blue scales on a smoky ground ; costal margin rather broadly, and 

 outer and inner margins narrowly smoky brown. Under side : 

 both wings uniform pale nut-brown with a common central fascia 

 composed of very indistinct greyish spots, beyond which are 

 dusted some greyish scales. Palpi brown, tipped with black. 

 Legs biown with cream spots. Abdomen bluish grey above, 

 brown beneath. Antenna; black above, white-spotted below. 



Expanse 1-4 inch. 



Hab. Afikpo, N. Nigeria (Reddick). 



Type, Mus. Druce. 



Remarkable for the swollen vein on the fore wing, which is 

 more prominent than in any other species of the genus, excepting 

 perhaps E. cercene Hew.f, to which, as also to E. carcina Hew. J, 

 it is allied. 



Epitola nitide, sp. n. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 1, rf .) 



Male. Upper side : fore wing rich shining blue with the costa, 

 apex, and outer margin rather broadly deep black, very narrowly 

 so towards the anal angle. Vein 1 is evenly thickened and 

 covered with deep black scales from its base for rather more than 

 half its length, vein 2 is also thickened and black from its base 

 to the origin of vein 3. Hind wing rich shining blue with the 

 costal margin broadly and evenly black, the inner margin dark 

 grey and the outer margin very narrowly black. Cilia white. 

 Under side white ; both wings with an anteciliary line and two 

 submarginal rows of crescent-shaped lunules, pale brown. Fore 

 wing with a pale brown marking closing the cell, beyond which is 



* Epitola dorothea Beth.-Baker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. xiv. p. 227 

 (1904). 



f Epitola cercene Hew. Ent. Mo. Mag. x. p. 150 (1873). 

 X Epitola carcina Hew. /. c. (1873). 



