﻿LYC^NID.E 
  (African), 
  

  

  PLATE 
  XII. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  ALLOTINUS. 
  

  

  Jlloiiinis, 
  Felcler, 
  " 
  Keise 
  der 
  Fregatter 
  Novara," 
  Lepidoptera, 
  II., 
  p. 
  285 
  

   (1865). 
  

  

  I.— 
  ALLOTINUS 
  ZYMNA. 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  

  

  Miletus 
  Zi/mna, 
  Westwood, 
  in 
  Doubleday 
  and 
  Hewitson's 
  "Genera 
  of 
  

   Diurnal 
  Lepidoptera," 
  vol. 
  2, 
  p. 
  502, 
  pi. 
  76, 
  fig. 
  7 
  (1852). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Upperside 
  white. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  costa 
  above 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  the 
  

   apex 
  and 
  hind 
  margin 
  broadly 
  black, 
  diminishing 
  to 
  the 
  hinder 
  angle. 
  Posterior 
  

   wings 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings, 
  being 
  produced 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  

   margin, 
  which 
  is 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  broadly 
  and 
  completely 
  bordered 
  with 
  ashy. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  white, 
  costa 
  and 
  hind 
  margin 
  bordered 
  with 
  

   ashy 
  ; 
  two 
  ashy 
  spots 
  in 
  the 
  cell. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  ashy, 
  with 
  darker 
  bands 
  

   and 
  markings, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  anastomosing, 
  and 
  slightly 
  bordered 
  with 
  whitish. 
  

  

  Hal). 
  Common 
  in 
  "West 
  Africa, 
  and 
  rather 
  variable 
  in 
  size 
  and 
  distinctness 
  

   of 
  markings. 
  

  

  In 
  all 
  the 
  principal 
  Collections. 
  

  

  II.— 
  ALLOTINUS 
  SIMILIS. 
  Figs. 
  3, 
  4. 
  

  

  Allotinus 
  Sim 
  His, 
  Kirby, 
  " 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History," 
  ser. 
  6, 
  

   vol. 
  4, 
  p. 
  282 
  (1890). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Upperside 
  as 
  in 
  ./. 
  Ziidiiki, 
  Westw., 
  but 
  posterior 
  wings 
  less 
  produced. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  white, 
  grey 
  towards 
  the 
  costa 
  and 
  hind 
  margin. 
  

   with 
  two 
  grey 
  transverse 
  oval 
  spots 
  in 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  two 
  white 
  ^ubmarginal 
  

  

  VOL. 
  I., 
  JANUARY, 
  1891. 
  g 
  s 
  

  

  