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Localities of Fentila Tropicalis. 



T. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban, Vcrulam, and Itongati River. 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques {21rs. Monteiro). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical, 



h. Eastern Coast. — " Qucrimba " (IIo2^fer). 



B. K'orth Tropical. 



a. Western Coast.— " Old Calabar" (//e;w750//). 



Genus D'URBANIA. 



D''Urhania, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., vol. i. p. 400 (1862); 



Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 282 (1866), 

 Pentila, "VVestw. [part], Gen. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 503 (1S52). 

 Liptena [part], Ilewits., Exot. Butt., iii. p. 119 (1866). 



Imago. — Head small, clothed on front and on vertex with very- 

 short down ; eyes smooth ; 2'«//ji rather long, scaly, divergent, not or 

 barely rising above top of head, — second joint long and stout, third 

 short, slender, acuminate ; anfennw short, rather stout, with club rather 

 abruptly formed, sub-cylindrical, blunt at tip. 



Thorax short, rather slender, laterally and posteriorly with a few 

 short hairs above; prothoras superiorly coated densely with short 

 hair ; breast scaly and downy. Fore-ivings more or less elongate ; costa 

 usually but slightly or moderately arched, — sometimes more decidedly 

 so ; hind-margin convex, entire ; posterior angle rounded ; costal ner- 

 vure ending about middle of costa ; subcostal nervure five-branched, 

 first nervule emitted at half the length of discoidal cell, second mid- 

 way between first and extremity of cell, third and fourth nearer apex 

 than cell, fourth ending on costa just before apex, fifth ending a little 

 below ajDex ; discoidal cell short or very short ; upper radial nervule 

 joined to subcostal nervure at or a little beyond extremity of cell ; 

 inferior disco-cellular nervule considerably longer than middle one 

 curved, joining third median nervule at an angle some distance from 

 latter's origin ; first median nervule given off before or considerably 

 before middle. Hind-wings elongate ; costa j)rominent or very pro- 

 minent at base, thence little arched or nearly straight ; hind-margin 

 entire, very convex ; apex and anal angle much rounded ; inner margins 

 but slightly convex, only covering sides of abdomen ; costal nervure 

 ending about or a little beyond middle ; first subcostal nervule emitted 

 at or a little before extremity of discoidal cell ; cell short ; upper disco- 

 cellular nervule rather short, transverse; lower one oblique, lono- 

 curved, joining first median nervule at an angle a good way from 

 latter's origin ; submedian nervure short. Legs stout, scaly, without 

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