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the fore-wing a longitudinal white streak in the basal region, which is 

 wholly wanting in riillandcr. On the under side the hoary-grey violet- 

 glossed hind-wing is very different from the pure-white brown- bordered 

 surface in Fhikmder, although the general pattern of the marking is 

 similar. In outline of wings Produda resembles Pamphila horlonica, 

 Boisd., but the elongation is more pronounced in the former. The 

 palpi, thorax, and abdomen are white beneath, as in Fhilander, but the 

 sides and middle of the back of the abdomen are not white, there bein"' 

 only fine white lines marking the segmental divisions. 



The four examples I have seen appear to he $s, viz., the one in the 

 Hewitson Collection above mentioned ; another kindly lent to me by Mr. H. 

 Grose Smith ; a third received in August 1SS4 by the South- African Museum ; 

 and a fourth captured at Kimberley on 5th March 1887 by Mr. 11. L. L. Feltham. 

 The three former examples Avere collected by JMrs. Mouteiro at Delagoa Bay. 



Localities of Ancyloxypha produda. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



c. Griqualand "West. — Kimberley [H. L. L. FeWmvi). 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourene.o Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 



Genus ABANTIS. 



Ahantis, Hopffer, "Monatsb. K. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, 1855, P- 643;" 

 and Peters' Reise n. Mossamb., Zool., Ins., p. 414 (1862). 



Leucochitonea, Wallengreu, Sv. Vet.- Akad. Handl., 1857; Lep. Rhop. 

 Caffr., p. 52. 



Leucochitonea, Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 306 (1866). 



Ahantis and Sapcea, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 18S4, p. 388, and iS8i^, p. 31:. 



Imago. — Head not quite as broad as thorax, shortly but densely 

 pilose above, a compact tuft (very short in some species) near base of 

 each antenna ; palpi with basal and middle joints broad, densely and 

 compactly scaly and hairy, — terminal joint usually short (very short 

 in Zamhesina, longest in Lcvubu), slender, blunt, clothed with very 

 short appressed hairs, horizontally porrected ; antennce short, rather 

 thick, with a rather suddenly-formed, elongate, cylindrical, bluntly- 

 tipped club, sharply (in Zevuhu gently) recurved. 



Thorax robust (less so in Levuhu), shorter than abdomen; above 

 scaly, with close down anteriorly, and longish hair laterally and pos- 

 teriorly, — beneath with dense short hair. Forc-ivings rather narrow 

 elongate apically ; costa nearly straight (in ^ more arched at base than 

 in $) ; hind-margin very slightly concave just above posterior angle ; 

 inner margin nearly straight, very slightly hollowed beyond middle • 

 discoidal cell narrow, about two-thirds length of wing; middle and 

 lower disco-cellular nervules well developed, inwardly oblique; lower 



