﻿LYCaiNID.E 
  (AFRICAN). 
  — 
  TINGRA. 
  21 
  

  

  GENUS 
  TINGRA. 
  

  

  Tingnj, 
  Boisd. 
  {anka, 
  p. 
  0). 
  

  

  III.— 
  TINGRA 
  ABRAXAS. 
  $. 
  Fig. 
  7. 
  

  

  Liptam 
  Abraxas, 
  Westwood, 
  in 
  Doubledav 
  and 
  Hewitson's 
  " 
  Genera 
  of 
  

   Diurnal 
  Lepidoptera," 
  pi. 
  77, 
  f. 
  5 
  (1852). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  about 
  ly 
  inches. 
  

  

  Upperside 
  white, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  tinged 
  with 
  yellow 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  and, 
  in 
  some 
  

   s])ecimens 
  of 
  the 
  male, 
  also 
  along 
  the 
  costa 
  and 
  within 
  the 
  apical 
  border 
  of 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  wings. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  tip 
  and 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  

   fishy, 
  spotted 
  with 
  white 
  on 
  the 
  fringes, 
  most 
  distinctly 
  in 
  tlie 
  female 
  ; 
  two 
  ashy 
  

   spots 
  on 
  the 
  lower 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  margin. 
  One 
  ashy 
  spot 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  

   cell, 
  a 
  second 
  within 
  it, 
  and 
  a 
  third 
  below 
  it, 
  and 
  sometimes 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  others 
  

   towards 
  the 
  costa. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  ashy 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  hind 
  margin, 
  

   an 
  ashy 
  spot 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  two 
  others 
  nearer 
  tlie 
  base, 
  above 
  and 
  

   Itelow 
  the 
  cell 
  respectively. 
  

  

  Underside 
  similar, 
  the 
  tip 
  of 
  anterior 
  wings 
  not 
  ashy, 
  but 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  ashy 
  

   spots 
  running 
  round 
  the 
  hind 
  margins 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  wings. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Ashanti. 
  

  

  In 
  all 
  large 
  Collections. 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  given 
  a 
  figure 
  of 
  the 
  underside 
  of 
  this 
  insect, 
  of 
  which 
  Westwood 
  has 
  figured 
  the 
  

   upperside 
  only. 
  

  

  IV.— 
  TINGRA 
  :\IACULATA. 
  $ 
  . 
  Figs. 
  8, 
  9. 
  $ 
  . 
  Fig. 
  10. 
  

  

  Tiugra 
  Macuhita, 
  Kirby, 
  " 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History," 
  ser. 
  5, 
  

   voh 
  19, 
  p. 
  363 
  (.1887). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1^ 
  to 
  1^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Upperside 
  white, 
  tmged 
  with 
  tawny-yellow 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  

   the 
  tij) 
  ashy, 
  marked 
  with 
  three 
  white 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  costal 
  margin, 
  and 
  three 
  on 
  

   the 
  hind 
  margin, 
  and 
  followed 
  by 
  three 
  ashy 
  spots 
  (nearly 
  confluent 
  with 
  the 
  

   dark 
  tip 
  in 
  the 
  male) 
  before 
  the 
  anal 
  angle 
  ; 
  four 
  dark 
  spots 
  in 
  the 
  cell, 
  the 
  

   second 
  transverse, 
  the 
  fourth 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  ratlier 
  widely 
  se])arated 
  

  

  