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On new Species of African Lycsenidse. 
Epitola perdita • 
Exp. rather over an inch. 
Male . — Anterior wings rather pointed, with the hind mar- 
gin oblique. Posterior wings oblong, nearly rectangular. 
Upperside black. Anterior wings rich blue from below 
the cell to the inner margin. Posterior wings with a large 
blue patch filling up two thirds of the lower part of the wing, 
but nowhere extending to the margins. 
Underside: Anterior wings slate- colour, with a pale grey 
spot at the end of the cell and two more, nearly connected, 
near the hinder angle ; apex reddish, edged by a submarginal 
coppery-green line from near the apex to the middle of the hind 
margin. Posterior wings reddish, shading into buff towards 
the base, with a submarginal row of silvery-green lunules, 
edged with black within and (less distinctly) without. A 
Y-shaped series of silvery-green markings edged with black 
lines, not extending to the costa, across the middle of the 
wing. 
Bab . Cameroons. 
In the collection of Mr. H. Grose Smith. 
Epitola (?) barombiensis. 
Exp. rather more than an inch. 
Anterior wings obtusely pointed at the apex, with the hind 
margin very convex. Posterior wings rounded. 
Upperside purplish blue. Anterior wings with the costa, 
apex, hind margin, and nervures black ; cell black, with 
irregular purplish markings towards the base ; inner margin 
but thinly scaled with purple. Posterior wings with the costa 
and inner margin broadly and the hind margin more nar- 
rowly black. 
Underside grey, a dark brown cloud extending from the 
base of the inner margin obliquely to beyond the cell ; thence, 
after an interruption, it spreads more broadly over the whole 
apical portion of the hind margin, except where it is slightly 
interrupted towards the costa before the apex. Posterior 
wings speckled with smoky brown, darkest on the hind mar- 
gin, w T here it shades into a broad border, ill-defined towards 
the base and not extending to the anal angle. 
Hob . Barombi, Cameroons (. Preuss ). 
In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 
