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new Species of African Lycsenida3. 
of anterior wings and on the hind margins of all the wings ; a 
large oval spot at the end of the cell of the posterior wings ; 
on the under surface the border does not quite reach the 
hinder angle of the anterior wings. Fringes grey, with a 
blackish line at the base, separated from the broad border 
by a whitish submarginal line. 
Legs yellow ; abdomen white : antennae black, ringed with 
white ; club black, tipped with yellow. 
Hab . Cameroons ( Preuss ). 
In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 
Tingra lavinia . 
Exp. 1^ inch. 
Male . — Upperside white, with rather large black spots on the 
costa towards the apex of fore wings, at the ends of all the cells, 
and at the ends of the nervures on all the hind margins, and 
one nearer the base above the cells ; under this, on the anterior 
wings only, is occasionally another spot in the cell on the 
underside ; extreme base of the wings slightly stained with 
yellow ; apex of anterior wings slightly bordered with ashy 
above. 
In the collections of the British Museum (Gaboon) and Dr. 
Staudinger (Ogowe). 
Allied to T. torrida , Kirb., but a larger, paler, and broader- 
winged insect. 
Tingra laura. 
Exp. 1J to IJr inch. 
Male . — Upperside white, tinged with tawny at base. Ante- 
rior wings: costa irrorated with black, tip ashy to the lowest 
submedian nervule, its upper part edged within with three 
black spots, nearly lost in the ashy colouring ; another spot at 
end of cell, two small ones in the cell, on one side only, and two 
on the disk opposite the lowest part of the border. Posterior 
wings with a spot on the costa above the cell, and another at 
its extremity ; other spots on the under surface showing 
faintly through. 
Underside white, tinged with yellow on the costa and at 
the apex of the anterior wings, and on the posterior wings, 
chiefly at base and tip ; hind margins spotted with black on 
the nervures. Anterior wings with a row of spots above the 
cell (only one distinct, the costa being irrorated with black), 
one at the end of the cell, and two submarginal rows at the 
apex, the outermost (nearly straight) of three larger, and the 
innermost (oblique) of four smaller spots. Posterior wings 
