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Mr. W. F. Kirby on 
costa, apex, and hind margin narrowly black ; a very large 
oblong black blotch projects into the wing from the lower 
part of the hind margin, filling up the whole space nearly to 
the cell, from the inner half of the upper discocellular ner- 
vure to below the lowest branch of the median nervure. 
Posterior wings blue, with the costa, inner margin, and 
fringes black. 
Underside uniform greyish brown, without markings. 
Legs brown, ringed with grey. 
Hab. Sierra Leone ( Preuss ). 
In the collections of Dr. Staudinger and of Mr. P. Crowley. 
Epitola zelica. 
Exp. l^-lj inch. 
Upperside light blue, with a purplish shade in some lights. 
Anterior wings with the costa above the cell and the apex 
broadly blackish brown, the dark colour diminishing trian- 
gularly to the hinder angle. Posterior wings with the costa 
above the cell, the inner margin, and the hind margin (nar- 
rowly) blackish brown. 
Underside white, with an obsolete straight pale yellowish 
line and two or three obsolete zigzag lines between this and 
the cell. In the female these indistinct markings are 
wanting, and there is only a blackish line at the base of the 
fringes of the anterior wings, which is also present in the 
male. 
The sexes do not differ otherwise. 
Ilab. Barombi, Cameroons {Preass). 
In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 
Allied to E . zerina , Hew., but in that species the upperside 
is of a deeper blue and the underside is much more heavily 
marked. 
Epitola Henley i. 
Exp. 1^ inch. 
Upperside black and deep violet-blue, the blue portions of 
the wing broken up into spots by black spaces, especially 
along the nervures. 
Underside brown; a pale space on the inner margin of 
anterior wings, from which two rows of pale submarginal 
spots run towards the costa — the outermost row formed of 
three nearly contiguous spots ; the innermost row of three 
spots, of which the two upper ones are contiguous, separated 
from the third. Posterior wings with traces of two paler 
bands, parallel to the hind margin. 
