﻿(U 
  LYCENID.T; 
  (AFRICAN). 
  PENTILA. 
  

  

  blackish 
  line 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  fringes, 
  which 
  are 
  marked 
  beyond 
  it 
  with 
  short 
  

   dark 
  dashes 
  on 
  the 
  nervures. 
  

  

  Underside 
  white. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  flecked 
  with 
  brown, 
  and 
  with 
  an 
  

   irregular 
  curved 
  brown 
  stripe 
  running 
  from 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  costa, 
  and 
  

   ceasing 
  opposite 
  the 
  hind 
  margin 
  above 
  the 
  median 
  nervure. 
  The 
  marginal 
  

   markings 
  cease 
  before 
  reaching 
  the 
  hinder 
  angle 
  ; 
  the 
  fringes 
  are 
  light 
  brown, 
  

   with 
  the 
  extreme 
  tips 
  white, 
  and 
  within 
  them 
  are 
  three 
  black 
  lines, 
  the 
  first 
  

   continuous, 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  pale 
  yellow 
  line 
  from 
  the 
  second, 
  which 
  is 
  intersected 
  

   by 
  the 
  nervures, 
  and 
  separated 
  from 
  the 
  third 
  by 
  a 
  white 
  line 
  ; 
  the 
  third 
  black 
  

   • 
  line 
  is 
  interrupted 
  at 
  and 
  between 
  the 
  nervures. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  white 
  

   fringes 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  three 
  l)lack 
  lines 
  separated 
  by 
  white 
  and 
  yellow 
  spaces 
  as 
  

   above 
  ; 
  the 
  outer 
  line 
  is 
  only 
  continuous 
  towards 
  the 
  anal 
  angle 
  ; 
  the 
  yellow 
  

   line 
  is 
  paler, 
  the 
  second 
  black 
  line 
  is 
  continuous, 
  and 
  the 
  innermost 
  line 
  is 
  

   browner, 
  and 
  slightly 
  waved. 
  Within 
  this 
  are 
  three 
  brown 
  transverse 
  bands, 
  

   running 
  from 
  opposite 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  ; 
  the 
  outermost 
  extending 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   the 
  second 
  only 
  to 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  wing, 
  and 
  the 
  third 
  still 
  shorter. 
  

  

  Head 
  and 
  thorax 
  blackish, 
  abdomen 
  white, 
  legs 
  tawny, 
  tibite 
  and 
  tarsi 
  

   spotted 
  above 
  with 
  black, 
  anteunte 
  ringed 
  with 
  white, 
  and 
  the 
  extreme 
  tip 
  

   tawny. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Ogove, 
  Galioon 
  (Mocquerys). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Staudiuger. 
  

  

  Allied 
  to 
  P. 
  Undularis, 
  Hewitson 
  {antea, 
  vol. 
  i., 
  Afr. 
  Ltc, 
  p. 
  9, 
  pi. 
  2, 
  f. 
  13). 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Staudiugei' 
  has 
  received 
  specimens 
  from 
  Victoria 
  (Cameroons), 
  iu 
  which 
  the 
  iuuer 
  

   browu 
  bauds 
  on 
  the 
  undersurface 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  are 
  obsolete 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  only 
  female, 
  

   the 
  black 
  border 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  hardly 
  extends 
  to 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  margin. 
  He 
  

   regards 
  these 
  as 
  merely 
  varieties 
  of 
  one 
  species. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  AKGYROCHEILA. 
  

  

  Argijrocheila, 
  Staudinger, 
  "Iris," 
  vol. 
  4, 
  p. 
  215 
  (1892). 
  

  

  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  projecting 
  in 
  four 
  large 
  silvery-bordered 
  

   lobes, 
  the 
  apex 
  least, 
  forming 
  hardly 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  rectangle, 
  and 
  the 
  lowest, 
  

   which 
  is 
  situated 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  margin, 
  most 
  ; 
  posterior 
  wings 
  

   more 
  regularly 
  lobate. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  subcostal 
  nervure 
  five-branched 
  ; 
  

   the 
  three 
  first 
  branches 
  emitted 
  at 
  equal 
  distances 
  apart 
  ; 
  the 
  first 
  half-way 
  between 
  

   the 
  base 
  and 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  the 
  third 
  emitted 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  ; 
  

   the 
  fourth 
  and 
  fifth 
  form 
  a 
  rather 
  short 
  fork 
  rmming 
  to 
  the 
  costa 
  before 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

  