Lejndoptera from Africa and (lie East. 187 



anorle, 4 from the lower angle, 5 from the upper angle, 6 

 from behind tlie angle, 7 from behind G. 

 Type, Liptenara batesi, B-B. 



Liptenara batesi, sp. n. 



Both wings orange-red ; primaries witli a broad black 

 costa increasing in widtli ; apex and terraen very broad, the 

 former with a broad, white, subapical, irregular bar. Second- 

 aries with a broad black termen, very irregular on its inner 

 margin. Under surface as above as regards the orange area, 

 but the black area is much intercepted with white. Primaries 

 with the costa interrupted with white spots and the white 

 bar larger; termen with white radiations between the veins. 

 Secondaries with large white marginal lunules between the 

 veins, leaving only black spots at their bases. 



Expanse 46 mm. 



IJab. Bitje, Cameroons. 



Type in Coll. Joicey. 



Pentila petreoldes, sp. n. 



(J . Primaries with the cell deep sooty black, costa blackish 

 to cell, beyond the cell narrowly black till it joins the very 

 broad blackish termen ; fold below cell with confluent 

 blackish spots up to origin of vein 2 ; rest of wing deep 

 straw-colour, almost yellowish. Secondaries yellowish straw- 

 colour, with one or two blackish basal spots ; a round 

 blackish spot at the end of the cell and a broad black termen, 

 on the inner margin of which the row of postmedian spots of 

 the under surface shows through. Under surface : primaries 

 with the dark termen and costa irrorated with dark brown, 

 the cell darkly spotted. Secondaries tinely irrorated all 

 over, the termen darker; six dark spots around the cell, 

 those at the end and above the cell beino; the larg-est : a 

 curved row of seven spots following the outline of the dark 

 termen, 



? . Similar to the male, but tawny in colour, whilst the 

 cell of the primaries is spotted, not entirely black, and with a 

 black spot below vein '6, and the broad dark costa is con- 

 tinuous into the dark apex and termen. 



Expanse, ^ 34, ? 36 mm. 



IJab. Coomassie (Friapere Forest). 



Types in ( -oil. Joicey. 



P entila fallax J sp. n. 



$ . Allied to the previous species, but with the dark termen 



14* 



