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**. The mealy spot is light grey, covering the bases of the areas (1 a and) 1 b and of the cell, but 
it is separated from the dark costal margin by a blue line of the cell. E. carcina. 
B. Under surface white with dark spots at least at the margin. The mealy spot of the covers the base of 
the forewing and reaches the costal margin. The $ forewing without a black transverse streak at the end 
of the discal cell. E. gerina. 
E. staudingeri Ky. (65 d) deviates from all the other species except gordoni by the position of the large staudinger 
black mealy spot on the forewing. In the <$ both wings are above blue; the costal margin of the forewing is 
narrowly black, its apex only 3 mm broad triangularly black, and the black marginal band is only 1 mm broad. 
Hindwing only with a very fine, dark marginal line, and at the costal margin as far as vein 7 black. Under 
surface unspotted. $ unknown. Sierra Leone and Gabun. 
E. gordoni Ham. Druce is above entirely like the $ of staudingeri and only deviates by the light spotted gordoni. 
under surface; it is probably only a race of it. Bonny. 
E. carcina Hew. (65 d) was originally described according to a $. Whether the described and figured carcina. 
here belongs to the $, is unfortunately not quite certain. Wings above light delicately violettish-blue, the 
costal margin of the forewing as far as the cell and the apex in a width of 6 mm black, at the margin the 
black colour ends pointedly at vein 1; the blue colour of the forewing is distally bordered almost rectilinearly, 
covers the base of the areas 2 to 6, reaching the anal angle in 1 a, but at the base it is somewhat deteriorated 
by the large mealy spot of about 3 mm width; hindwing at the costal margin as far as vein 6 black, at the 
proximal margin in 1 a and 1 b grey; the black marginal line very fine. Under surface brown with several 
transverse rows of whitish spots. — In the $ the forewing above has only a blue spot of the posterior margin 
of 6 mm width, reaching only vein 2 and being anteriorly accompanied by a somewhat bent transverse 
row of 5 small white discal spots of the areas 2 to 6; hindwing above only at the middle of the basal part, 
blue with a black marginal band of 3 mm width; under surface almost as in the <§, but with distinct, white 
discal dots on the fore wings. Sierra Leone to Kuilu. 
E. gerina Hew. (65 b) deviates from the other species of this group by the whitish under surface gerina. 
decorated with small, light brown spots and streaks. In the <$ the mealy spot of the forewing is about 5 mm 
broad and covers the whole base as far as the costal margin, the blue colour being thereby confined to a 
median band of 7 to 8 mm width, reaching the footstalk of 7 to 9 and the anal angle; hindwing above as in 
the <$ of carcina, but at the proximal margin blackish. If Druce is correct in presuming that E. goodi 
Holl. (65 e) belongs to gerina, goodi must be the $ of gerina, since it deviates by the absence of the mealy spot 
on the forewing (the blue colour reaching the base). The light brown markings beneath are distinctly prominent 
and are therefore much more distinct than in Hewitson’s figure of the £. Congo and Ogowe. 
Fifth Group of Species. 
In this group the <$ forewing has no large mealy spot, but instead of it one or two veins at the base 
thickened and covered with black scales. The forewing beneath is without a black longitudinal stripe. The 
are always above coloured black and blue with a linear, or very narrow black marginal band of the hindwing. 
In the $9, however, that are still little known, the blue colour is very much reduced, and the black marginal 
band on the hindwing is always broad; on the forewing the blue colour is sometimes in the middle replaced 
by white. The margin of the forewing is uniformly bent or almost straight. 
The species are closely allied, and their differences have not yet been all exactly ascertained. The 
following review of the species must therefore be regarded merely as a preliminary attempt. 
Review of the Species. 
I. Wings beneath dark brown, often with light markings. 
A. Only the median of the forewing is above at the base thickened and scaled black. 
a. Fringes feebly undulated and spotted white. E. marginata. 
(3 Fringes entirely margined and one-coloured. 
*. <$. The discal cell on the forewing above quite black. The blue colour forms only a broad, but 
short spot of the posterior margin, anteriorly bordered by the discal cell and vein 3. 
E. tumentia. 
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