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  LYCENIDiE 
  (AFRICAN). 
  DURBANIA. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  varied 
  with 
  brown, 
  and 
  dull 
  oclireous 
  yellow, 
  

   eveiywliere 
  speckled 
  with 
  brown 
  ; 
  there 
  are 
  traces 
  of 
  three 
  large 
  dark 
  spots 
  in 
  

   the 
  cell, 
  the 
  last 
  at 
  its 
  extremity; 
  a 
  submarginal 
  blackish 
  band, 
  slightly 
  flecked 
  

   with 
  white. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  dull 
  tawny, 
  speckled 
  with 
  brown, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  

   slightly 
  interrupted 
  brown 
  border, 
  flecked 
  with 
  white 
  ; 
  within 
  this 
  is 
  an 
  angulated 
  

   row 
  of 
  five 
  large 
  brown 
  spots, 
  two 
  towards 
  the 
  costa, 
  and 
  three 
  towards 
  the 
  

   inner 
  margin 
  ; 
  between 
  the 
  latter 
  and 
  the 
  base 
  are 
  two 
  more 
  large 
  brown 
  spots. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Gaboon 
  (Rogers). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Hewitson 
  Collectiou 
  (Britisli 
  Museum). 
  

  

  This 
  sjiecies 
  has 
  a 
  curious 
  resemblauce 
  to 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  South 
  American 
  Lemoniinpe. 
  It 
  is 
  

   not 
  unlike 
  the 
  butterfly 
  which 
  we 
  have 
  figured 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Liyteiia 
  Parva 
  {aniea, 
  vol. 
  1, 
  

   Afr. 
  Lye, 
  p. 
  1-5, 
  pi. 
  4, 
  figs. 
  1-4). 
  

  

  GENUS 
  TINGEA, 
  Boisduval 
  [nnka, 
  vol. 
  1, 
  pp. 
  6, 
  31, 
  Gl). 
  

  

  XI.— 
  TINGRA 
  PICENA. 
  Figs. 
  3, 
  4. 
  

  

  Pentila 
  Piccna, 
  Hewitson, 
  " 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natiu'al 
  Histoiy," 
  ser. 
  4, 
  

   vol. 
  13, 
  p. 
  282 
  (1874). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1\ 
  inches. 
  

  

  Upperside 
  white, 
  slightly 
  tinted 
  with 
  yellowish, 
  as 
  are 
  also 
  the 
  fringes. 
  

  

  Anterior 
  wings 
  brown 
  along 
  the 
  costa 
  ; 
  apex 
  and 
  hind 
  margin 
  rather 
  

   broadly 
  brown, 
  nearly 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  second 
  median 
  nervule, 
  above 
  which 
  the 
  

   brown 
  border 
  ends 
  rather 
  obtusely. 
  All 
  the 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  round 
  black 
  spot 
  at 
  

   the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell. 
  

  

  Underside 
  similar, 
  with 
  the 
  black 
  spots 
  as 
  above. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  

   the 
  costa 
  above 
  the 
  cell, 
  the 
  apex, 
  atid 
  hind 
  margin 
  yellow, 
  the 
  border 
  tapering 
  

   to 
  the 
  anal 
  angle. 
  Extreme 
  costal 
  margin 
  speckled 
  with 
  blackish, 
  and 
  the 
  

   extremities 
  of 
  the 
  neniires 
  marked 
  with 
  black 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  second 
  median 
  

   nervule 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  yellow, 
  with 
  a 
  ferruginous 
  spot 
  near 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  a 
  

   smaller 
  one 
  between 
  the 
  large 
  spot 
  closing 
  the 
  cell 
  and 
  the 
  hind 
  margin. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  AVest 
  Africa. 
  (Taken 
  on 
  the 
  march 
  to 
  Coomassie 
  by 
  Lieutenant 
  

   Bell.) 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Hewitson 
  Collection 
  (British 
  Museum). 
  

  

  Somewhat 
  resembles 
  our 
  Tinyra 
  Fatima 
  (anteii, 
  vol, 
  1. 
  Afr. 
  Lye. 
  p. 
  62, 
  jjI. 
  1-5, 
  figs. 
  8, 
  9. 
  

  

  