﻿LYC^NID^ 
  (AFRICAN). 
  TINGKA. 
  

  

  end 
  of 
  the 
  costa 
  by 
  thi-ee 
  linear 
  ones." 
  (W. 
  F. 
  K. 
  in 
  "Annals 
  and 
  Maga- 
  

   zine," 
  /. 
  c.) 
  

  

  Exp. 
  If 
  inches. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Henley 
  Grose 
  Smith, 
  from 
  the 
  Gaboon. 
  

  

  Closely 
  allied 
  to 
  T. 
  Abraxas, 
  Westw. 
  {Lipiena 
  Abraxas, 
  "Westwood 
  in 
  Doubleday 
  and 
  

   Hewitson's 
  "Genera 
  of 
  Diurnal 
  Lepidoptera," 
  pi. 
  77, 
  f. 
  5 
  (1852)). 
  

  

  GENUS 
  PENTILA. 
  

  

  PcntiJa 
  (Doubleday, 
  " 
  List 
  of 
  the 
  Specimens 
  of 
  Lepidopteroiis 
  Insects 
  in 
  

   the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum," 
  II., 
  p. 
  57 
  (1847)) 
  ; 
  Westwood 
  in 
  Double- 
  

   day 
  and 
  Hewitson's 
  " 
  Genera 
  of 
  Diurnal 
  Lepidoptera," 
  p. 
  503 
  (1851) 
  ; 
  Butler, 
  

   Entomologist's 
  Monthly 
  Magazine, 
  XXIL, 
  p. 
  59 
  (1885). 
  

  

  Wings 
  oval 
  ; 
  hind 
  wings 
  produced, 
  the 
  cell 
  closed 
  by 
  a 
  nearly 
  straight 
  vein 
  ; 
  

   fore 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  subcostal 
  nervure 
  five-branched. 
  

  

  Doubleday 
  first 
  published 
  the 
  name 
  Pentila 
  Undularis 
  without 
  description 
  

   of 
  either 
  genus 
  or 
  species. 
  On 
  pi. 
  76 
  of 
  the 
  "Genera 
  of 
  Dim-nal 
  Lepidoptera," 
  

   Westwood 
  figm-ed 
  Pentila 
  Zgmna 
  (fig. 
  7), 
  and 
  on 
  pi. 
  77 
  he 
  figin-ed 
  Liptena 
  

   Abraxas 
  (fig. 
  5), 
  and 
  Acma 
  (fig. 
  6). 
  Subsequently 
  (p. 
  503) 
  Westwood 
  dropped 
  

   the 
  name 
  Liptena, 
  regarding 
  the 
  species 
  figm-ed 
  imder 
  that 
  name 
  as 
  congeneric 
  

   with 
  Pentila 
  Undularis 
  (Boisduval's 
  MS. 
  type 
  oi 
  Pentila), 
  and 
  referring 
  P. 
  Zijmna 
  

   to 
  the 
  genus 
  Miletus 
  ; 
  he 
  likewise 
  included 
  Tingra 
  Tropicalis, 
  Boisd., 
  in 
  the 
  

   genus 
  with 
  doubt. 
  Hewitson, 
  "Exotic 
  Butterflies," 
  YH., 
  Pentila 
  and 
  Liptena 
  

   (1866), 
  revived 
  the 
  name 
  Liptena, 
  placing 
  in 
  it 
  L. 
  Acrcea, 
  and 
  figm-ing 
  Tingra 
  

   Tropiccdis 
  (with 
  which 
  he 
  confounded 
  Liptena 
  Abraxas) 
  as 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  Pentila. 
  It 
  

   is 
  doubtless 
  to 
  L. 
  Abraxas 
  that 
  Hewitson 
  refers, 
  when 
  he 
  states 
  that 
  Westwood 
  

   took 
  his 
  dissections 
  from 
  Tingra 
  Tropicalis, 
  for 
  the 
  latter 
  species 
  was 
  not 
  only 
  

   unknown 
  to 
  Westwood 
  in 
  1851, 
  but 
  placed 
  by 
  him 
  in 
  Pentila 
  with 
  doubt. 
  It 
  was 
  

   not 
  imtil 
  1866 
  that 
  Hewitson 
  ("Exotic 
  Butterflies," 
  V., 
  Pentila 
  and 
  Liptena, 
  

   pi, 
  2) 
  figui-ed 
  and 
  described 
  Pentila 
  Undularis, 
  Boisd. 
  MS., 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time 
  

   as 
  a 
  Liptena. 
  No 
  genus 
  being 
  recognizable 
  until 
  a 
  species 
  belonging 
  to 
  it 
  is 
  

   described 
  or 
  figm-ed, 
  P. 
  Zijmna 
  would 
  be 
  the 
  type, 
  notwithstanding 
  Westwood's 
  

   error, 
  but 
  that 
  the 
  name 
  Undularis, 
  though 
  MS., 
  indicated 
  an 
  insect 
  with 
  un- 
  

   dulating 
  markings 
  ; 
  and 
  no 
  other, 
  therefore, 
  could 
  be 
  regarded 
  as 
  tj^ucal, 
  if 
  the 
  

   MS. 
  genus 
  Pentila 
  was 
  retained 
  at 
  all. 
  Butler 
  (l. 
  c.) 
  has 
  arrived 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  

   result 
  by 
  a 
  different 
  course 
  of 
  reasoning. 
  (W. 
  F. 
  K.) 
  

  

  