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PENTILA AND LIPTENA. 



PENTILA TROPICALIS. 1, 2. 



Tinffra fropicalis Bomluval. Voy. Delafforffid', paye h'^^. Liptena Abraxas, Westioood in 

 DonhJeday and IleioUson s Gen. Binrnal Lcp., Plate 11, fg. 5. Pentila Abraxas, paye 504. 



IJppERSiDE. Male, rufous-orange. Anterior wing with several minute spots, the apex and 

 spots on the upper margin brown ; posterior wing with one spot. 



Underside uniform orange-yellow. Both wings with numerous spots (thirty or forty) 



and undulations of brown. 



Variety. Male with the apex and outer margin of the anterior wing broadly brown : the posterior wing also 

 margined with brown. 



Female like the male, except that it has (instead of the brown at the apex) a submarginal 



band of brown spots. 



Variety. Female white, with the apex of the anterior wing broadly brown, the spots larger and alike on 

 both sides, as in figure 1 ; or with the spots less numerous as in P. Abraxas of Westwood. 



Expan. t \\, ? 1^ inch. Hab. Natal and Old Calabar. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitsou. 



Mr. Westwood, after having, in error, used the name of Liptena for this groupe on plate 77 of the "Diurnal 

 Lepidoptera," adopted the name Pentila (which Boisduval had given to a part of it only), not being then aware that 

 Boisduval's genus Tingra was synonymous I would gladly have adopted the earlier name of Tin<jra, but since it 

 has never been characterized by its author the genus Pentila of the "Genera" must stand. Westwood's first 

 species, L. Uudularis, it is true, was Boisduval's type of Pentila, but since the dissections for Westwood's genus 

 Pentila have been made from P. Tronicalis, it must be considered his typical species. In Pentila the palpi are 

 very minute, the discordal cell lontj. In Liptena the paljii are long, the cell short. 



PENTILA PEUCETIA. 3. 



Upperside. Male, transparent white. The wings broadly margined with brown ; 

 anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a band of brown marked by a black spot ; posterior 

 wing with a central black spot. 



Underside as above except that the posterior wing has three black spots. 



Expan. 1^^ inch. Hab. Zambezi. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, 



LIPTENA. Hewitson. 



Eyes small, smooth. Palpi smooth, long ; the second joint compressed, reaching above the 

 head ; the terminal joint widest near its point. Anterior wing with the costal nervure short, not 

 reaching the middle of the wing ; the subcostal nervure four-branched ; two branches near 

 together before the end of the cell, two beyond and at a distance from it ; the cell broad, short, 

 not much more than a third of the wing in length, closed at a right angle nearly, by the disco- 

 cellular nervules, the first of which is very short, the third twice the length of the second and 

 curved inwardly. Posterior wing with the cell short, closed in some species much more 

 obliquely than in others. All the feet with the tarsi very long and slender (longer than in 

 Pentila). 



