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to be limited to KafTraria Proper, Natal, and Zululand. Tdtcnsis and 

 Levuhu Lave been taken on the Vaal Iliver, in Griqnaland West, and 

 Vcnosa in tlie Eastern Transvaal. Paradisca is recorded from Natal, 

 Zululand, and Delagoa Bay, and appears to bo less rare than its 

 congeners. 



The species are very different in colouring and pattern. Tettcnsis 

 has the fore-wings blackish Avith large whitish markings, and the hind- 

 wings white with a few black spots, and faintly margined with pale-red 

 beneath. Vcnosa is pale brownish-grey tinged with ochre-yellow, and 

 has all the neuration black above. Bicolor is pale ochre-yellow with a 

 black border, and has four large black spots in the fore-wings. Taradisea 

 is shining bluish-black with transparent and white (or pale-yellowish) 

 spots and hind-wing patch ; the body being spotted with orange and 

 white. Leviibu is of the purest white, with a white spotted black 

 border and the ends of nervules black ; its upper and under surfaces 

 scarcely differ. 



360. (1.) Abantis Tettensis, Hopifer. 



$ Abantis Tettejisis, Hopff., " Monatsb. K. Akad. Wissensch. Berl., 1855, 

 p. 643;" and Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins., jx 415, pi. xxvi. ff. 16, 

 17 (1862). 



Exp. at., {$) I in. 3-4 lin. ; ($) i in. 5 lin. 



$ Blackish, with large yellowish-white se7ni-transparent hasal and 

 discal marlcings in fore-wing, and a hind-marginal series of sinall spots 

 in loth wings; hind-iving white, with UacTc spots and hind-marginal 

 lorder. Fore-wing : neuration black ; two white longitudinal stripes 

 from base, the upper one narrow, along costal border to a little beyond 

 middle — the lower one broad, occupying space between median nervure 

 with part of its first nervule and submedian nervure to a little before 

 middle ; in discoidal cell, crossed by fold, a large white spot very near 

 extremity; a superiorly strongly- curved, inferiorly sinuate discal row 

 of eight spots, of which the five upper are small and elongate (the first 

 and second almost linear), and form a continuous subapical curved bar ; 

 the sixth is small, subquadrate, separate, between second and third 

 median nervules; and the seventh and eighth are much larger, and in 

 a direct line between disco-cellular spot and submedian nervure ; seven 

 spots in hind-marginal series, the lowest bisected by black line of intra- 

 neural fold. Hind-wing : field white up to costal edge, but more or 

 less obscured with blackish along inner- marginal border ; a very small 

 black spot in discoidal cell at base, and another near base between 

 costal and subcostal nervures ; slightly before middle a curved transverse 

 row of three widely- separated rather large spots; a submarginal row of 

 six small spots, mostly touching the diffused blackish inner edo-e of 

 hind-marginal black border (which becomes very broad in anal-ano-ular 

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