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PENTILA & LIPTENA. II. 



PENTILA AMENAIDA. 4, 5, C, 7. 



Upperside. Male rufous-orange : the margins broadly dark brown. Anterior 

 wing with a large oblong spot in the cell, evidently composed of two or three smaller 

 spots and also forming part of the costal margin : three round spots below this and four 

 forming a semicircle and parallel to the outer margin, all dark brown. Posterior wing 

 with some minute black spots near the base, two larger spots at the middle, and four 

 near the outer margin. 



UiXDERSiDE as above, except that it is without the brown border is closely 

 undulated throughout with brown and has the spots more distinct near the base of 

 the posterior wing. 



Female (figs. 4 6) like the male, except that it is of a brighter orange. 



Female variety (figs. 5 7). 



Exp. 1-1% inch. Hab. Angola. (Rogers and Monteiro.) 



In the Collection of W. 0. Plewitson. 

 In drawing the figures of this species I believed that I had got both sexes, but discovered upon 

 closer examination that they are all females. 



PENTILA ROTHA. 8, 9. 



Upperside. ]\Iale orange-yellow : the margins broadly brown. Both wings 

 with several black spots near the base. Posterior wing with some black spots touching 

 the marginal brown. 



Underside as above, except that there are more subbasal spots that the 

 outer margin is undulated with brown and has a double series of large dark brown 

 spots. 



Exp. l-/j inch. Hab. Gaboon (Ansell.) 



PENTILA ABRAXAS. 10, var. 



PENTILA ELEAZA. 11, 12. 



Upperside. Male dark brown. Anterior win"; with an orange siiot between 



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the median nervures. 



Underside. Anterior wing grey brown, with a band of scarlet near the apex 

 and enter margin. Posterior wing warm grey spotted with scarlet and black : three 

 minute black spots near the base, three near the middle, four (two of them linear) near 

 the outer margin and a submarginal series of lunular spots all black. 



Exp. 1-0% inch. Flab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



Published October lat, 1873.] 



