﻿LYCiENID^ 
  (Afpjcan). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  XV. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  TINGRA. 
  

  

  Tiiujra, 
  Boisduval 
  {antm, 
  pj). 
  0, 
  31). 
  

  

  VI.— 
  TINGRA 
  LAUEA. 
  $ 
  . 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  ? 
  . 
  Fig. 
  3. 
  

  

  Tunjm 
  Laura, 
  Kirby, 
  " 
  Anuals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History," 
  sev. 
  (5, 
  

   vol. 
  4, 
  p. 
  267 
  (September, 
  1890). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  Ij 
  to 
  1.3- 
  inches. 
  

  

  " 
  Male. 
  Upperside 
  white, 
  tinged 
  with 
  tawny 
  at 
  base. 
  Anterior 
  wings, 
  

   costa 
  irrorated 
  with 
  black, 
  apex 
  ashy 
  to 
  the 
  lowest 
  submedian 
  ncrvnle, 
  its 
  upper 
  

   part 
  edged 
  within 
  with 
  three 
  black 
  spots, 
  nearly 
  lost 
  in 
  the 
  ashy 
  colouring 
  ; 
  

   another 
  spot 
  at 
  end 
  of 
  cell, 
  two 
  small 
  ones 
  in 
  the 
  cell, 
  on 
  one 
  side 
  only, 
  and 
  

   two 
  on 
  the 
  disk 
  opposite 
  the 
  lowest 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  border 
  ; 
  posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  

   spot 
  on 
  the 
  costa 
  above 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  another 
  at 
  its 
  extremity 
  ; 
  other 
  spots 
  on 
  

   the 
  undersurface 
  showing 
  faintly 
  through. 
  

  

  " 
  Underside 
  white, 
  tinged 
  with 
  yellow 
  on 
  the 
  costa 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  wings, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings, 
  chiefly 
  at 
  base 
  and 
  apex; 
  hind 
  margins 
  

   spotted 
  with 
  black 
  on 
  the 
  nervures 
  ; 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  spots 
  above 
  

   the 
  cell 
  (only 
  one 
  distinct, 
  the 
  costa 
  being 
  irrorated 
  with 
  black), 
  one 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  

   of 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  two 
  submarginal 
  rows 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  the 
  outermost 
  (nearly 
  straight) 
  

   of 
  three 
  larger, 
  and 
  the 
  innermost 
  (oblique) 
  of 
  four 
  smaller 
  spots 
  ; 
  posterior 
  

   wings 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  spot 
  at 
  base 
  of 
  cell, 
  a 
  large 
  one 
  on 
  the 
  costa 
  above 
  the 
  cell, 
  

   a 
  small 
  one 
  below 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  another 
  at 
  its 
  extremity, 
  beyond 
  which 
  is 
  an 
  

   angulated 
  row 
  of 
  six 
  spots 
  running 
  from 
  the 
  costa, 
  and 
  a 
  shorter 
  row 
  of 
  three 
  

   between 
  the 
  upper 
  ones 
  and 
  the 
  apex. 
  

   • 
  '• 
  Antennje 
  black, 
  tipped 
  with 
  tawny 
  in 
  both 
  sexes. 
  

  

  " 
  Female. 
  Upperside 
  white, 
  apex 
  of 
  anterior 
  wings 
  rather 
  broadly 
  ashy, 
  but 
  

   this 
  colour 
  ceases 
  on 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  at 
  the 
  lowest 
  median 
  nervule 
  ; 
  a 
  con- 
  

   spicuous 
  black 
  spot 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  submedian 
  nervure, 
  and 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  nervures 
  

  

  VOL. 
  I., 
  OCTOBEE, 
  1891. 
  3 
  D 
  

  

  