340 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



markings of fore-wing not (or very faintly and partially) blackish- 

 edo-ed and the smallest of the three middle ones much reduced or 

 obsolete ; liind-iving without inferior diffused %videning of Jiind-7narginal 

 harder. Under side. — White much more restricted, confined to inner- 

 marginal inferior half of wing ; black hind-marginal border obsolete 

 superiorh', and almost so inferior ly, except on anal-angular prominence, 

 where it is very much narrower. (^Ilah. — Ehauda, interior of Western 

 South-Tropical Africa.) ^ 



The discovery of this species is due to Mr. C F. Palmer, who forwarded 

 the two rather worn specimens above described from Eureka, near Barberton, 

 Eastern Transvaal, with the note that one of them was captured on 4th April 

 1888 about teak trees growing on a stony ridge. Although very different in 

 the colouring and marking of the wing.?, and considerably larger, tliis species is 

 in form, and apparently to a large extent in the marking of the head and body, 

 nearly related to A. Tettensis. The complete black neuration of the upper side 

 at once distinguishes it from the other Soutli-African species of the genus.^ 



Localities of Ahantis venosa. 



I. South Africa. 



K. Transvaal. — Barberton (C. F. Palmer). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South-Tropical. 



a\. Western Interior. — Ehanda {A. W. Eriksson) — \_Var. A.]. 



362. (3.) Abantis bicolor, (Trim en). 



(J Leucoclutonea hicolor, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser., ii. p. 180 

 (1864); and Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 307, n. 201, pi. 6, f. i (1866). 



Ex-p. ciL, {$) I in. 5-6 lin. ; ($) i in. 6-^ lin. 



^ Very pale ochreous-yelloiv, with black margins : fore-wing ivith 

 large hlacJc spots. Fore-wing : costa with a black border, narrowing to 

 apex, where it joins the broad, interiorly irregularly-dentate, hind- 

 marginal black band ; inner margin also narrowly bordered with black ; 

 close to base, between median and submedian nervures, a large spot ; 

 a little beyond it two large spots form an oblique fascia, interrupted on 

 first median nervule, between costal border and submedian nervure 

 beyond middle ; a large irregular costal spot or patch between middle 



^ Besides the two examples of the Variety here described, I have one i from the same 

 locality, and have seen two others in Mr. Jameson's collection from the Um-Vuli (a tributary 

 of the Zambesi, in Mashunaland), in which all the transparent spots of the fore-wings are 

 wanting, the white of the under side of tlie hind-wings and the blackish border at anal 

 angle being also almost obsolete. In the existing dearth of material I am unable to decide 

 vifhether these examples belong to a distinct species : the markings of head and body appear 

 to be identical with those of the Variety. 



- I noted a large (possibly $ ) specimen of this species in Mr. H. Grose Smith's collection 

 in October 18S6. I omitted to record the locality, but believe that it was Delagoa Bay. 



