﻿LYCaiNIDiE 
  (AFRICAN) 
  PENTILA. 
  

  

  I.— 
  PENTILA 
  UNDULARIS, 
  f. 
  13. 
  

  

  Liptena 
  Undularis, 
  Hewitson, 
  " 
  Exotic 
  Butterflies," 
  III., 
  Pentila 
  and 
  Liptena, 
  

   pl. 
  1. 
  f. 
  7 
  (1877). 
  

  

  White, 
  fore 
  wings 
  tipped 
  with 
  brown, 
  all 
  the 
  wings 
  beneath 
  with 
  slender 
  

   brown 
  undulating 
  markings. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1^ 
  to 
  If 
  inches. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collections 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  and 
  Henley 
  Grose 
  Smith, 
  from 
  the 
  Congo. 
  

   As 
  Hewitson 
  only 
  figured 
  the 
  underside, 
  a 
  figure 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  surface 
  is 
  here 
  given. 
  

  

  II.— 
  PENTILA 
  EVANESCENS, 
  f. 
  11, 
  12. 
  

  

  Pentila 
  Evanesccns, 
  Kirby, 
  " 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History," 
  

   ser. 
  5, 
  vol. 
  19, 
  p. 
  364 
  (1887). 
  

  

  " 
  Yellowish-white, 
  shading 
  into 
  tawny-yellow 
  towards 
  the 
  hind 
  margins, 
  

   the 
  costa 
  of 
  the 
  fore 
  wings 
  narrowly 
  edged 
  with 
  black, 
  rather 
  more 
  broadly 
  for 
  

   the 
  last 
  fom'th 
  of 
  its 
  length 
  before 
  the 
  tip, 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  

   the 
  fore 
  wings 
  and 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  wings 
  from 
  the 
  middle 
  to 
  the 
  

   anal 
  angle 
  very 
  narrowly 
  edged 
  with 
  black. 
  

  

  " 
  Underside 
  imiform 
  dull 
  yellowish-white, 
  the 
  hind 
  margins 
  a 
  little 
  

   yellower, 
  and 
  the 
  fringes 
  tawny-yellow, 
  edged 
  within 
  with 
  a 
  dull 
  brown 
  line 
  ; 
  an 
  

   obscure 
  tawny 
  spot 
  at 
  Uie 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  on 
  the 
  fore 
  wings." 
  (W. 
  F. 
  K. 
  in 
  

   "Annals 
  and 
  Magazine," 
  /. 
  <•.) 
  

  

  Exp. 
  \\ 
  inches. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  CoUection 
  of 
  Henley 
  Grose 
  Smith, 
  from 
  the 
  Cameroons. 
  

  

  A 
  very 
  obscure 
  species, 
  somewhat 
  resembling 
  a 
  small 
  pale 
  Ccenonympha 
  in 
  appearance. 
  

  

  VOL. 
  I., 
  OCTOBER, 
  1887. 
  

  

  