EPITOLA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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Review of the Species. 
I. Both wings or at least the forewing beneath with a dark ground-colour. 
A. Hindwing beneath with a dark ground-colour. 
a. Forewing beneath without a blackish longitudinal stripe in the middle. Both wings beneath before 
the margin at least with traces of transverse rows of light spots. Forewing in the above with 1 to 3 
black transverse streaks in the cell and a thick transverse streak at the cell-end. Hindwing above 
Avith a black marginal band of 1 to 2 mm width. (Hereto presumably also belong E. w.us, mengoensis 
and mercedes.) 
*. <$. The blue colour of the forewing posteriorly bordered by vein 1. The light markings beneath 
distinct. E. catuna. 
**. The blue colour of the forewing reaches the posterior margin. The markings beneath very 
indistinct. E. elissa. 
(3. Forewing beneath in the middle with a blackish longitudinal stripe beginning at the base, gradually 
groAving broader distally and ending behind the cell in 2 to 5. Hindwing usually beneath one-coloured 
broAvnish without markings. 
*. <^. Hindwing above between the veins 1 b and 6 Avith a distinctly defined blue area and a black 
marginal band of 1 to 2 mm width. 
§. c£. Area 1 a of the forewing above quite or for the most part scaled blue; cliscal cell with 2 
blue spots; the areas 1 a to 2 as far as the base and almost to the margin scaled blue. 
1. <$. Forewing otherwise above only with 2 small, blue discal spots in 5 and 6. 
E. doleta. 
2. ForeAving above in the areas 3 to 6 with a somewhat bent, coherent transverse band 
of blue discal spots, following upon the spot of the posterior margin. 
E. barombiensis. 
§§. Area 1 a on the forewing above black without blue spots. 
0. <$. The blue colour on the hindwing above is not parted by a black longitudinal stripe. 
1. <$. Discal cell of the foreAving aboA^e with a blue spot or blue spots. 
a. The discal cell of the forewing above with a blue longitudinal stripe filling up 
almost the whole cell. Area 1 b of the forewing as far as the base and as far as 
2 mm before the margin blue, area 2 with a large blue discal spot not covering, 
however, the base; area 3 one-coloured black; areas 4 to 6 with small, blue discal 
spots. E. conjuncta. 
b. Forewing above with two blue spots in the discal cell, and in the areas 1 b to 
6 with one blue spot each, not reaching the base of the area; the spots in 1 b and 2 
larger than the others. E. rezia. 
2. 3 . Discal cell of the foreAving one-coloured black without blue. Forewing above 
Avith large, blue discal spots in 1 b and 2 and small, similar spots in 5 and 6. 
E. pinodoides. 
E. leonensis. 
00. The blue colour on the hindwing above is parted by a black longitudinal line folloAving 
the posterior margin of the cell and vein 4. E. benitensis. 
E. sublvstris. 
**. HindAving above one-coloured dark broAvn Avithout markings or with a faint blue hue. 
1. <£. Hindwing above with a blue reflection. E. pinodes. 
2. HindAving above without a blue reflection. E. nigra. 
B. Hindwing beneath dirty yelloAvish white, at the margin dusted blackish. E. adolphi friderici. 
II. Both wings beneath almost one-coloured silvery white or Avhite. E. ernesti. 
E. catuna Ky. (64 g). The blue colour of the foreAving is bordered by the veins 1 and 6; one or caiuna. 
two black dots in the cell and a thick, black transverse spot at the end of the cell; the blue spots of the areas 
4 and 5 almost reach the bases of these areas, but they are parted by a black transverse streak. Forewing 
