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LIPTENA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
short footstalk, rarely somewhat separated; veins 6 and 7 not petioled. The discal cell is at the apex obliquely 
cut off and not extended at the posterior angle. The 1 palpi are covered with appressed scales. Antennal club 
long-extended almost whorled. 
The numerous species may be divided into 4 groups according to their colour and marking. Some 
of these groups have been regarded as genera. The morphological marks, however, do not stand the test, for 
which reason it is better to consider them as groups discernible by the colouring. 
Review of the Groups of Species. 
A. Wings above with a white ground-colour changing to light ochreous-yellow, with or without black markings. 
a. The wings are short and broad, always above with a white ground-colour. The costal margin, apex 
and margin of the forewing on 1) o t h sides broadly black abo^e always contingent and unspotted. Veins 
3 and 4 of the hindwing almost invariably rising separately. First group. 
p. Wings more oblong, above with a white or yellow ground-colour. Forewing above unmarked or with 
a large black apical spot rarely continued at the margin as far as the posterior margin; the costal margin 
is rarely and only above black. Hindwing beneath one-coloured or with several fine transverse lines 
or black dots. Veins 3 and 4 of the hindwing petioled or from the same place, rarely (as in fatima) separated 
at the rise. — Parapontia Rober (= Leucolepi.s Karsch). Second group. 
B. Wings above unicolorously black or black with orange-red spots or orange-yellow with black margins. Veins 
3 and 4 of the hindwing from the same place. Hindwing never beneath with 6 or 7 dark transverse lines 
or transverse bands. 
a. Wings beneath blackish with light spots or yellowish with black spots, above usually more or less orange- 
yellow* or red, rarely unicolorously black. Vein 7 on the forewing terminates into the margin. 
Third group. 
p. Wings above unicolorously black, beneath white with black markings. Vein 7 of the forewing terminates 
into the apex. — Tetrarhanis Karsch. Fourth group. 
First Group of Species. 
The species partly remind us of the Larinopods, partly strikingly of the Pentila -species of the Tirza- group. 
From the Pentila -species they are easily discernible by the absence of the precostal vein of the hindwing and by the much 
shorter discal cell. Sexes resembling each other. 
Review of the Species. 
I. The black apex of the forewing beneath spotted light or with a white streak. Hindwing above without 
the black discal dot. 
A. The black marginal band of the forewing reaches the posterior margin and is continued in the same 
width to the anal angle on the hindwing above. Hindwing beneath with a dark proximal margin. 
a. On the forewing beneath the black costal margin is, behind the apex of the discal cell, sharply 
separated from the black apex by a projection of the white ground-colour. 
*. Hindwing beneath at the costal margin with black markings. 
1. Hindwing beneath of a yellowish ground-colour; the discal cell quite light or only at the apex 
with a black transverse streak. L. libyssa. 
2. Hindwing beneath with a white ground-colour; the discal cell at the base, in the middle and 
at the apex black. L. hollandi. 
**. Hindwing beneath at the costal margin in the areas 7 and 8 unicolorously white without spots. 
L. nubifera. 
p. On the forewing beneath the black costal margin gradually passes over into the black apex without 
a deep indentation. Hindwing beneath with a very broad marginal band spotted white at the margin. 
