136 (June, 
\". A NEW SPECIES OF LYCAINID FROM UGANDA 
AND LAKE VICTORIA NYANZA. 
BY S. A. NEAVE, B.A. 
Reprinted from “ The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine,’ Second Series, Vol. xiv. 
PENTILA CLARENSIS, 2. sp. 
(Type ¢ from Toro Uganda, in the Hope Collection, Oxford 
University Museum). 
Allied on the one hand to P. amenaida, Hew., and P. mombase, Grose-Smith, 
and on the other to P. pauli, Staud., the affinity to the latter species being the 
more pronounced. 2. Expanse, 38°5 mm. 
Upper-side: pale fulvous orange, with a few black spots. Hind margins of 
both wings bordered with dull black. This border is smooth across the apex of the 
fore-wing but serrated elsewhere. There is also a narrow black border along the 
costa of the fore-wing. In both wings a terminal discocellular spet. 
The fore-wing has three sub-costal black spots immediately above the upper 
border of the cell. Below the cell is a larger spot between the Ist and 2nd 
median nervules. There are no spots within the cell Along the hind marginal 
border is a small discal row of two, or sometimes three minute spots. These are 
evanescent in the specimen from Nyangori. 
The hind-wing has two spots on the costal margin, which may or may not be 
somewhat evanescent. Running parallel with the black hind margin is a discal 
row of small spots, usually five in number, of which the one nearest the costa is 
137 much the largest. With the exception of the latter, these spots are evanescent in 
the specimen from Nyangori, in which however distinct traces of the corresponding 
spots upon the under surface of the wing are visible. 
Under-side: paler than the upper-side ; the whole of the hind-wing and the 
costa, apex and hind margin of the fore-wing being a dull buff. The rest of the 
fore-wing is of the same colour as the upper-side. The black border of both wings is 
absent, but there is a narrow black marginal line inside the black fringe. ‘The 
fringe is interrupted opposite the internervular spaces by the spreading outwards 
ofthe ground colour. In the fore-wing these buff sections of the fringe are smaller 
than in the hind-wing where they may be much larger than the black sections. 
Within the fringe the narrow black line is thickened opposite the black sections, 
interrupted opposite the buff. A series of internervular black more or less linear 
markings occupies a submarginal position. In the hind-wings these markings are 
oval or moniliform spots; in the fore-wing they become more and more linear towards 
the apical angle. The spot nearest the inner margin of the fore-wing is especially 
