LTCjENlDyE. — PENTILA. 



LIPTENA ILMA. 13. 



Uppekside dark brown. 



Underside white, tinted with blue. Both Avings with a nearly central black 

 spot and an apical spot of brown. Anterior wing with the costal niargin, three 

 submarginal lunular spots and the outer margin brown. Posterior wing with 

 three lunular spots below the middle and some similar spots on the outer margin 

 pale brown. 



Exp. 1^5 inch. Hab. Angola. (Rogers.) 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



LIPTENA ISCA. 14, 1.5, 16. 



Upperside. Male. Anterior wing dark brown with a small scarlet spot on the 

 inner margin near the anal angle. Posterior wing scarlet, with the abdominal and 

 outer margins black. 



Underside dark brown tinted with grey towards the base. Anterior wing with 

 two spots within the cell, two near the costal margin and a central band ending in a 

 large spot near the anal angle, all scarlet. Posterior wing with a spot in the cell and 

 a central band of spots also scarlet. 



Female scarlet with the margins broadly brown. Anterior wing Aviih a black 

 spot near the base and a small scarlet spot near the middle of the costal margin. 

 Posterior wing with dark brown spots near the base. Underside as in the male. 



Exp. 1^ inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 

 In the Collection of W. 0. Hewitson. 



LIPTENA MILCA. 17. 



Upperside dark brown. Both wings crossed by a broad continuous band of 

 scarlet. 



Underside as above except that the base of both wings is undulated with paler 

 colour. 



Exp. ly\r i"ch. Hab. West Africa. (Rogers.) 



LIPTENA ERASTUS. 



Pieris Erastus. Hewitson. Exot. Bafts. Vol. III.pl. v.,/y. 51. 



I have preferred to place several heterogeneous species in the genus Liptena, rather ihnn to make 

 new genera to receive them. Having commenced the illustration of these genera in this work, I have 

 thought it hetter to continue it here, rather than to transfer it to the Lycaenidfe. 



