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EPITOLA. By Dr. C. AuRiviLLirs. 
marginata. 
iumentia. 
**. The discal cell of the forewing above is quite blue or for the most part so; the blue colour extends 
behind the cell at least to vein 5, generally to the footstalk of 7 to 9. 
§. Forewing above without a black transverse streak or spot at the end of the discal cell *). 
t- The bluish-white discal and submarginal spots on the forewing beneath are united in 
the areas 1 a and 2 into large spots of 3 to 4 mm length. E. cercene. 
ff. The light spots on the forewing beneath are not united into large spots. 
1. Both wings beneath as far as the base with numerous, distinctly prominent, whitish- 
grey transverse streaks and transverse bands. E. albomaculata. 
2. The wings beneath only at the margin with 2 or 3 transverse rows of light spots. 
a. d- The blue colour of the hindwing is anteriorly bordered by vein 6 or it only 
forms a narrow stripe in area 6. Hindwing only with a fine black marginal line. 
E. badura. 
b. d- The blue colour of the hindwing covers also the area 6. The black marginal 
band of the hindwing almost 1 mm broad. E. badia. 
§§. Forewing above with a black transverse streak or spot at the end of the discal cell (to this 
division belongs also the incompletely described E. umbratilis). 
1. Hindwing above only with a fine black marginal line. 
a. d- The blue colour of the forewing only reaches vein 5 or it only forms small, separate 
scaled spots in 5 and 6. E. leonina. 
b. d- The blue coloiir of the forewing reaches the footstalk of 7 to 9. 
E. khalifa. 
2. Hindwing above with a black marginal band of at least 1 mm width. The blue colour 
of the forewing reaches the footstalk of the veins 7 to 9. 
a. Under surface with numerous light markings. E. moyambina. 
b. Under surface one-coloured dark brown without light markings. 
E. uni for mis. 
B. d- The sub median and sometimes also the median of the forewing above at the base thickened and 
covered with black scales. 
a. d- Forewing above without a black streak at the end of the discal cell. Wings beneath almost as 
in E. cercene. E. batesi. 
(3. d- Forewing above at the end of the discal cell with a triangular, black indentation cohering with 
the black costal margin. 
1. d- The black marginal band on the hindwing above narrow. E. cercenoides. 
E. dorothea. 
2. d- The black marginal band on the hindwing above very broad. E. oniensis. 
If. The under surface of both wings white with or without dark markings. Hereto belongs also E. virginea 
of which only the 2 is known, and probably conception. The forewing above without a black streak at the 
end of the discal cell. 
a. Under surface without or with indistinct markings. E. zelica. 
p. Under surface with distinct dentate lines. E. nitida. 
E. marginata Ky. (65 e). d- The blue colour of the forewing covers the whole cell, reaches the footstalk 
of the veins 7 to 9, being distally slantingly, almost rectilinearly bordered and reaches the anal angle at the 
posterior margin; from the black costal margin, at the end of the cell, a triangular black spot extends into the 
blue colour. Hindwing above between the veins 1 b and 6 almost as far as the margin blue. Under surface 
blackish-brown with 2 or 3 bluish-white transverse lines in the marginal part. In the $ the hindwing is above 
dark brownish-grey without markings, and the forewing has instead of the blue colour of the d a white, inwardly 
violettish-blue surface with a curved black streak at the end of the cell. Under surface much lighter than in 
the d and with a white median band of the forewing. Cameroon to Gabun. 
E. tumentia Ham. Druce (64 g). d- Forewing above black with a blue spot of the posterior margin, 
reaching only vein 3 and anteriorly bordered by the median. Hindwing above between the veins 1 b and 6 
*) To this division belongs also E. zelza. 
