336 SOUTII-AFEICAX BUTTEEFLIES. 



radial originating just midway between upper one and third median 

 nervule ; first median nervule given off considerably nearer to base 

 than to second nervule. Hind-ivings in $ (except in Levuhu) more or 

 less prominent inferiorly about anal angle ; costa short, almost straight 

 beyond strong basal curve; subcostal nervure branched at some dis- 

 tance before extremity of discoidal cell ; disco-cellular and lower radial 

 nervules arranged as in fore-wing, but more attenuated, and the former 

 less oblique. Legs ^ of moderate length and thickness ; hind-femora 

 inferiorly, and middle and hind tibia? superiorly more or less hairy ; ap- 

 pendage to fore-tibia) narrow, elongate {in Tettensis $ very small, and 

 in one example apparently wanting ") ; middle and hind tibige smooth, 

 their terminal spurs rather long, but second pair on hind-tibiae in some 

 species ( Venosa and Zanibesina) very small ; tarsi closely spinulose 

 beneath. 



Abdomen tapering in <^, and a little shorter than inner margin of 

 hind-wings ; broad and blunt at extremity (and considerably shorter) 

 in $. 



Since I have been able to compare specimens of the exceedingly 

 rare Abantis Tettensis with Levuhu, Wallengr., and the few other species 

 which appear to have been rightly placed in the genus Leucochitonea^ 

 Wallengr., I consider that the two reputed genera cannot properly be 

 separated, and should be therefore united under Hopffer's earlier name. 

 Levuhu, Wallengren's type of LeucocMtojiea, certainly diverges more 

 from Tettensis than the other species I include under Abantis, but the 

 differences it presents (noted above) are insufficient for generic sepa- 

 ration. I agree with Herrich-Schaffer {Corr.-Blatt. Zool.-Min. Ver. 

 Begensh., 1868, pp. 32 and 46) that neither the Niveus, Oram. 

 ( = Arsalte, Linn.), group — though strikingly like Levubu in general 

 aspect — nor the other American species described and figured by 

 Felder (Eeise der Noveira, Lep., iii. pp. 524-525, pi. Ixxiv.), can 

 rightly be placed in Leueochltonea ; the latter have indeed been by 

 most subsequent writers referred to the genus Pythonides. Mr. Hewit- 

 son also issued {Exot. Butt., vols. iv. and v.) two plates of numerous 

 so-called species of Leucochitonca, which cannot be retained in that 

 genus, or consequently in Abantis. 



Plotz (Stett. Ent. Zeit., loc. cit.) created the genus Scqjcea for A. 

 (Le2icocJiito7iea) bicolor, mihi, and afterwards added to it (1886) A. 

 Zambesiiia (Westw.), placed by its describer in the genus Oxynetra, 

 Feld., but a near ally of A. (Leucochitonea) paradisea, Butl. These 

 species and Venosa, mihi, n. sp., are unquestionably inseparable generi- 

 cally from Tettensis, Hopff. 



Four of the five known South-African species have been met with 

 in the South -Tropical belt, the exception being A. bicolor, which appears 



^ The fore-coxae in the i Levuhu have a conspicuous tuft of very long black hairs spring- 

 ing close to the junction with tlie femur, and directed posteriorly. 



^ Hopffcr {op. cit.) notes that this appendage was wanting in the 9 Tettensis he described. 



