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Localities of Pcntila Troincalis, 
T. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban, Yerulam, and Itongati River. 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques {Mrs. 3Io7iteiro). 
II. Other African Eegions. 
A. South Tropical. 
b. Eastern Coast.—" Querimba " {Hopffer). 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — " Old Calabar" {Heioitsoi)). 
Genus D'UHBANIA. 
D'Urljania, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., vol. i. p. 400 (1862); 
Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 282 (1866). 
Pentila, Westw. [part], Gen. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 503 (1852). 
Liptena [part], Hewits., Exot. Butt., iii. p. 119 (1866). 
Imago. — Head small, clothed on front and on vertex with very 
short down ; eyes smooth ; palpi rather long, scaly, divergent, not or 
barely rising above top of head, — second joint long and stout, third 
short, slender, acuminate ; antennm short, rather stout, with club rather 
abruptly formed, sub-cylindrical, blunt at tip. 
Thorax short, rather slender, laterally and posteriorly with a few 
short hairs above ; prothorax superiorly coated densely with short 
hair ; breast scaly and downy. Fore-ioings more or less elongate ; costa 
usually but slightly or moderately arched, — sometimes more decidedly 
so ; hind-margin convex, entire ; posterior angle rounded ; costal ner- 
vure ending about middle of costa ; subcostal nervure five-branched, 
first nervule emitted at half the length of discoidal cell, second mid- 
way between first and extremity of cell, third and fourth nearer apex 
than cell, fourth ending on costa just before apex, fifth ending a little 
below apex ; discoidal cell short or very short ; upper radial nervule 
joined to subcostal nervure at or a little beyond extremity of cell ; 
inferior disco-cellular nervule considerably longer than middle one, 
curved, joining third median nervule at an angle some distance from 
latter's origin ; first median nervule given off" before or considerably 
before middle. Hincl-iuings elongate ; costa prominent or very pro- 
minent at base, thence little arched or nearly straight; hind-margin 
entire, very convex ; apex and anal angle much rounded ; inner margins 
but slightly convex, only covering sides of abdomen ; costal nervure 
ending about or a little beyond middle ; first subcostal nervule emitted 
at or a little before extremity of discoidal cell ; cell short ; upper disco- 
cellular nervule rather short, transverse; lower one oblique, long, 
curved, joining first median nervule at an angle a good way from 
latter's origin ; submedian nervure short. Legs stout, scaly, without 
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