﻿LYCiENIDiE 
  (AFRICAN). 
  — 
  TINGEA. 
  

  

  I.— 
  TINGEA 
  TROPICALIS. 
  Figs. 
  9, 
  10. 
  

  

  Tingra 
  Tropicalls, 
  Boiscluval, 
  /. 
  c, 
  p. 
  589 
  n.,46 
  (1847). 
  

  

  Pentila 
  rrop/ca/ts, 
  male, 
  Hewitson, 
  "Exotic 
  Butterflies," 
  III., 
  rcntila 
  and 
  

   Liptena, 
  f. 
  2. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Eich 
  deep 
  yellow, 
  somewhat 
  incliuing 
  to 
  orauge 
  ; 
  fore 
  wings 
  with 
  

   the 
  costa 
  dusted 
  with 
  black, 
  most 
  thickly 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  a 
  large 
  black 
  spot 
  at 
  the 
  

   end 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  five 
  small 
  ones 
  in 
  the 
  cell, 
  one 
  near 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  above 
  the 
  cell 
  

   are 
  two 
  more 
  spots, 
  forming, 
  with 
  those 
  in 
  the 
  cell, 
  two 
  series 
  of 
  three, 
  of 
  which 
  

   the 
  middle 
  spot 
  is 
  a 
  little 
  nearer 
  the 
  base 
  than 
  the 
  others 
  ; 
  below 
  the 
  cell 
  is 
  

   another 
  black 
  spot 
  ; 
  hind 
  margin 
  with 
  an 
  obsolete 
  submarginal 
  row 
  of 
  black 
  

   spots, 
  most 
  distinct 
  towards 
  the 
  hinder 
  angle 
  ; 
  a 
  slightly 
  interrupted 
  black 
  line 
  

   runs 
  from 
  the 
  costa 
  near 
  the 
  tip, 
  round 
  the 
  apex, 
  to 
  three-fourths 
  of 
  the 
  length 
  

   of 
  the 
  hind 
  margin. 
  

  

  Underside 
  like 
  the 
  upper, 
  but 
  more 
  spotted 
  ; 
  all 
  the 
  wings 
  with 
  two 
  sub- 
  

   marginal 
  rows 
  of 
  spots, 
  and 
  the 
  fringes 
  marked 
  with 
  linear 
  spots 
  ; 
  the 
  fore 
  

   wings 
  are 
  otherwise 
  spotted 
  nearly 
  as 
  above, 
  and 
  the 
  hind 
  wings 
  have 
  one 
  spot 
  

   at 
  the 
  base 
  on 
  the 
  costa, 
  one 
  large 
  one 
  above 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  three 
  small 
  

   ones 
  in 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  a 
  larger 
  one 
  at 
  the 
  extremity, 
  and 
  throe 
  rather 
  large 
  spots 
  

   below 
  the 
  cell. 
  

  

  Body 
  and 
  legs 
  yellow, 
  antennte 
  black, 
  spotted 
  with 
  white 
  beneath 
  ; 
  tarsi 
  

   spotted 
  with 
  black. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Both 
  sexes 
  in 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Henley 
  Grose 
  Smith 
  ; 
  the 
  male, 
  agi-eeing 
  with 
  Boisduval's 
  

   description 
  and 
  Hewitson's 
  figure, 
  from 
  Natal, 
  and 
  the 
  female 
  from 
  Delagoa 
  Bay. 
  The 
  insect 
  

   figured 
  by 
  Hewitson 
  as 
  the 
  female 
  (i!. 
  c. 
  fig. 
  1) 
  is 
  quite 
  distinct, 
  and 
  may 
  be 
  called 
  T. 
  Hewitsonii. 
  

  

  II.— 
  TINGEA 
  TOEEIDA, 
  f. 
  7, 
  8. 
  

  

  Tingra 
  Torrida, 
  Kirby, 
  "Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History," 
  ser. 
  5, 
  

   vol. 
  19, 
  p. 
  3G4 
  (1887). 
  

  

  " 
  "Wliite, 
  tinged 
  with 
  orange 
  towards 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  fore 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  tip 
  

   ashy, 
  and 
  two 
  brown 
  spots 
  below 
  it 
  on 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  ; 
  a 
  brown 
  spot 
  at 
  the 
  

   end 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  on 
  all 
  the 
  wings 
  ; 
  hind 
  wings 
  with 
  six 
  marginal 
  brown 
  spots. 
  

  

  " 
  Underside 
  similar, 
  fore 
  wings 
  witli 
  a 
  second 
  spot 
  at 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  

   the 
  cell 
  ; 
  the 
  apex 
  not 
  ashy, 
  but 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  with 
  six 
  spots, 
  preceded 
  at 
  the 
  

  

  