284 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALI3. 



Genus PENTILA. 



Pentila, Boisd, 

 Tingra, Boisd. 



Imago. — Head small : antennce short, with a short, thick, 

 elongaie-ovate club ; palpi very small and short, closely 

 appressed to head. Wings large, elongate, entire. Fore-wing :■ 

 costa moderately arched, hind-margin convex. Hind-wing r 

 ovate, hind-margin being strongly convex. Legs short, thick, 

 scaly : fore-legs of $ small, imperfect. Abdomen elongate, 

 thickened at extremity. 



The species composing this singular and aberrant Lycaeni- 

 deous Genus are of weak and delicate structure, reminding 

 one to some extent of the Moths called Geometrcs, a 

 resemblance increased by their faint colouring speckled with 

 blackish. Five species have been discovered in Western 

 Tropical Africa, one only of which is as yet known to inhabit 

 the South. This species seems widely spread, Hopifer 

 recording it from Queriraba, on the coast of Eastern Africa. 



176. Pentila tropicalis. 



Tingra tropicalis, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 589, 



n. 46. 

 Pentila „ Hpfr., in Peters' Reise nach Moss., 



[p. 413. 

 Tingra ,, Wallgr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 46. 



Exp. 1 in. 6 lin. — 1 in. 8 lin. 



$ . YeUow-ochreous, with blackish dots : fore-wing with 

 a blackish border ; each wing with a dot at end of discoidal 

 cell. Fore-wing : costa dusted with blackish ; apex and 

 hind-mavgif) more or less widely bordered with blackish, 

 which sometimes becomes macular towards anal angle ; three 

 dots in cell, and one below median nervure, near origin of 

 second nervule. Hind-wing : a dot before middle, above 

 subcostal nervure. Cilia interrupted with blackish. Under- 

 side. — Paler : hind-wing and edges of fore-wing irrorated 

 with elongate dark atoms; commonly two transverse rows of 

 dots beyond middle, of which the outer is more distinct and 

 parallel with hind-margin. Fore-wing : dots as above, but 

 sometimes three additional ones above subcostal nervure 

 before middle. Hind-wing: two additional dots, one at 

 base, the other in cell close to extremity. 



$ . Similar : no hind-marginal border, but a row of dots 

 in ^ore-wing. 



