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new Species of African Lycamidse. 
Hob. Barombi, Cameroons ( Preuss ). 
In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 
Upperside hardly distinguishable from E . liyetta , Hew., 
with which a specimen of E. Henley i from Calabar is placed 
in the Hewitson Collection of the British Museum ; but the 
underside is very different. 
Epitola catuna . 
Exp. 1-1 J in. 
Male. — Upperside deep purplish blue, with rather broad 
blackish margins, the nervures narrowly black ; fringes grey. 
Underside greyish brown. Anterior wings darker at the 
base to beyond the cell ; at the end of the cell stands an 
obsolete grey spot ; the darker portion of the wing is bounded 
by a row of obsolete grey spots, much expanded on the inner 
margin ; on the hind margin is a row of obsolete grey lunules, 
dividing into two rows on the upper half of the wing. Pos- 
terior wings with three submarginal rows of broad obsolete 
grey lunules, the innermost most indistinct. 
Antennae and legs very slightly ringed with white, only 
the extreme tip of the former tawny. 
Hab. Cameroons {Preuss). 
In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 
Resembles E. liyetta , Hew., on the upperside, and the group 
of E. cercene , Hew., below. 
Epitola doleta. 
Exp. 1^- inch. 
Male. — Upperside blackish brown, with bright blue 
markings. Anterior wings with scattered blue markings 
towards the base of the cell, a short bar just beyond the 
middle of the costa running obliquely outwards, and a band 
running nearly to the hind margin between the median and 
submedian nervures. Posterior wings with the whole space 
between the upper part of the cell and the submedian nervure 
filled up with blue nearly to the hind margin. 
Underside as in E. catuna ; in one specimen the paler 
markings are almost entirely obsolete. 
Hab. Sierra Leone [Preuss). 
In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 
Perhaps the male of E. cephena , Hew., which it somewhat 
resembles on the under surface. 
