Epitola obscura Hawker-Smith 1933

Epitola obscura Hawker-Smith
Epitola obscura Hawker-Smith, 1933: 11. Jackson, 1962: 152.
A Liberian male keys (Roche, 1954: 491) without difficulty to obscura and agrees well with the original description. The associated female is badly battered but corresponds closely with the male in size and in the color and pattern of the underside. Above, this female (insofar as can be made out) is dark black-brown on both wings, the forewing with two or three small, rather sharp, pale blue spots in a diagonal subcostal row just beyond cell. I can see no other markings except some small darker blue spots just below cell end, but the poor condition of the specimen precludes more detail. The species, according to this female (unknown to Jackson, 1962), would appear to fall in Jackson's group B of the pinodes group.
This species has been recorded previously only from Nigeria and Ghana.
Liberia: Harbel, 1 S , XI, 1 2 , IV (Fox).