new Species of African Lycaenidoe. 
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In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 
Allied to T. dispar , Kirb., and T. melissa , Druce, but 
differs from the former and apparently also from the latter in 
the markings of the underside. 
Teriomima dubia . 
Exp. 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 
markings 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. 
Hob . Sierra Leone and Barombi, Cameroons ( Preuss ) . 
In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 
Perhaps a variety of T. melissa , Druce. 
Epitola badura . 
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 with a few 
coppery-green scales. Posterior wings with the costa broadly 
and hind margin narrowly black. 
Underside greyish brown, with a row of submarginal 
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. H. 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 
