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PENTILA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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P. nero Sm. db Ky. (= umbra Hall.) (01 e). Wings of an orange-yellow or recldish-yellow ground- new. 
colour and above with a very broad, dark marginal band reaching the discal dots and on the forewing also the 
apex of the discocellular; on the forewing it is continued at the costal margin as far as the base and reaches 
there the costal margin of the discocellular. Beneath all the dots are completely present. Kuilu River and 
Congo District. 
P. rotha Hew. (= marianna Stiff.) (HI e) deviates from nero only by the black apical band on the wihn. 
forewing above not reaching the apex of the discocellular, so that the areas 4 to 0 are yellow in the basal part 
Cameroon to Gabun. 
P. amenaida Hew. (61 f). Wings orange-yellow or rarely reddish-yellow, above with a black marginal amenaida. 
band which is narrow and does not reach the discal dots pf the hindwings and of the areas 2 and 3 of the 
forewing, and does not reach the discocellular at the costal margin of the forewing; the discal dots are sometimes 
absent above, ( = ab. anienaidana Strand), and only show through from beneath; discocellular of the forewing amenaidu- 
above without black dots or with three such dots at most; under surface usually fully developed with all the dots. 
Congo District and Angola. — nyassana Auriv. deviates by the absence of all or nearly all the basal dots above nyassana. 
and by the wings being greenish-yellow at the margin. Nyassa District. 
P. multiplagata Baker is unknown to me, but according to the description it seems hardly to differ muUiplaga- 
from amenaida ; at least the description does not mention any marks that could not also be applied. The descrip- la - 
tion runs: ,,Thorax black; abdomen light ochreous-yellow; both wings ochreous-yellow with somewhat lobated, 
very broad black marginal bands; forewing with the costal margin narrow black with two black dots above 
the cell, a larger one at the end of the discocellular and 3 postmedian ones ( = discal dots) in a bow from vein 
l to 3. Hindwing with a dot at the cell-end and a post-median row of 7 dots parallel to the black marginal 
band, the three lower ones are nearer at the base than the four upper ones. Under surface: forewing ochreous- 
yellow, at the apex yellowish with three dots across the discocellular, one at its apex, one between the veins 
1 and 2 near the angle, a postmedian row of 8 dots, beginning at and above the third costal dot, and a sub- 
terminal row of 6 dots, the three foremost of which form broad spots, the three hindmost forming large 
dots. Hindwing lighter than the forewing with a curved row of 5 basal dots, the one at the costal margin 
and in the cell being very small, the three others in 1 a to 2 large, a postmedian row of 9 large dots and a 
subterminal row of 7 large dots. Expanse of 40 mm.“ Congo District: Makala. 
P. amenaidoides Holl. very much approaches P. amenaida , and only deviates by the black marginal amenaidoi- 
band above on the hindwing and in the areas 1 a to 2 on the forewing being very narrow, linear. The ground¬ 
colour is reddish and on the under surface speckled with grey scales. Gabun. 
P. mombasae Sm. & Ky. (61 f) is probably the eastern race of amenaida and deviates only by the mombusuc. 
discocellular of the forewing showing 5 black dots, one of which is near the base the others standing by twos 
above each other; besides the hindwings are beneath more or less striated black. In the the forewing is above 
broad black at the costal margin. German and British East Africa. — ab. dama Stiff, deviates by the marginal da mu. 
band on the hindwing above and between the anal angle and vein 2 on the forewing, being only represented 
by marginal spots. German East Africa: Lindi. — ab. sigiensis Strand deviates by the indistinctness of sigiensis. 
the black dusting beneath and by the reduced black dots. Marginal band above like in the typical form; the 
A is almost entirely without the dark costal-marginal band of the forewing above. It forms a distinct transition 
to amenaida. German East Africa. 
P. pauli deviates from the other species except clarensis by both wings showing beneath at the margin 
6 black longitudinal streaks on the folds of the areas 1 b (resp. 1 c) to 6; wings above with a broad, dark, proxi¬ 
mal ly lobated marginal band, beneath with a fine black marginal line and dark fringes; discal dots always large 
and distinct. — pauli Stgr. Discal dots small, above often indistinct; basal dot of area 7 on the hindwing small, pauli. 
Nigeria; Loko. —- ab. radiata Lathy (62 a) is without the discal dots and has beside the discal dots only radiaia. 
one basal dot in the area 7 of the hindwing which is, however, as large as the discal dot. Nigeria. — ab. multi- multipunc- 
punctata Lathy (62 a) has on both sides large and distinct discal dots. Nigeria. iata 
P. clarensis Neave is unknown to me, but according to the description it seems to deviate from clarensis. 
pauli only by the wings showing beneath light marginal spots between the ends of the veins Uganda: Toro. 
P. petreia. Both wings above with a broad, black, proximally almost entire marginal band extending petreia. 
on the forewing at the costal margin to the base and reaching the costal margin of the cell; dieal dots large 
and distinct; usually 2 black dots in the discocellular of the forewing; discal dots are absent above and 
usually also beneath. — petreia Hew. has a reddish ground-colour. Ashanti to Uganda. — preussi Stgr. (61 f). preussi. 
Ground-colour of both wings ochreous-yellow. Sierra Leone. 
P. inconspicua Ham. Druce (63 a) deviates from preussi (61 f) only by the black apical part on the inconspi- 
forewing above reaching the apex of the discocellular and entirely covering the areas 5 and 6; the under surface cuu 
is also darker, speckled more brown. Congo District: Kassai and Uganda, 
