342 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



yellow spots above, besides those on the collar. Abdomen with the 

 lateral stripes enlarged, quite confluent on each side, and their narrowed 

 dorsal points meeting. 



Colonel Bowkcr discovered this well-maaked species in Kaffraria Proper in 

 1863, and tlie only specimen (a ^) which the collection he presented in the 

 folloM'ing year to the South-African Museum contained was described by me 

 in 1864 ''ind figured (op. cit.) in 1866. Two ,^ s subsequently received from 

 him were noted as taken in January ; they Avere very swift on the wing, fre- 

 quenting the edge of a forest ; one was captured Avhen perched on a twig of 

 Hibiscus. Two other (^ s, were secured by Colonel Bowker before leaving the 

 Bashee River; and more recently (in 1879 and 1883) he has sent four $ s from 

 Pinetown in Natal, one of which is marked as captured on the 5th April. 

 The insect is evidently very rare : I have seen only four besides the nine 

 examples just mentioned, viz., a pair in the collection from Natal sent by 

 Colonel Bowker to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886, a $ taken in 

 Zululand by Captain Goodrich, and a $ lately (1888) sent to me for examina- 

 tion by Mr. A. D. Millar of D'Urban. The latter kind correspondent informs 

 me that he has taken but two specimens during his long and successful 

 researches in the vicinity of D'Urban. 



Localities of Ahantis hicolor. 



I. South Africa. 



D. KafTraria Proper. — Bashee River (/. H. Boiclier). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban {A. D. Millar). Pinetown (/. H. 

 JBowker). 



F. Zululand. — Etshowe (A. M. Goodrich). 



363. (4.) Abantis paradisea, (Butler). 



(J Leucochitonca j-)aradisea, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1S70, p. 499; 



and Lep. Exot., p. 167, i)]. lix. f. 8 (1874). 

 (J Hesjieria {Oxynetra) Naviagtiana, Westw., Thes. Ent. Oxon., p. 183, 



pi. xxxiv. f. 10 (1874). 

 <? Leucocldtonea x>aradisea, Stand., Exot. Schmett., i. pi. 100 (1888).'^ 



Exp. al, ($) I in. 7-8I lin. ; (?) 2 in. ol lin. 



$ Glossy black, unth a slight submetallic dark-green lustre: fore- 

 wing loith rather large serni-transparent white sp)ots near base and inner 

 margin, and vitreous ones superiorly and suhapically ; hind-ivioig with a 

 very large scmi-t7'ansparent lohite rounded patch; in both wings the 

 semi-traMsp)arent markings are sometivies tinged with 2^ale ochre-yellow ; 

 cilia short and black, except about anal angle of hind-iving, where they 

 are longer and mixed with whitish. Fore-wing : at base, below sub- 

 costal nervure, a silky-white spot ; three spots in basal area arranged 

 in a triangle, — the upper one small (in discoidal cell), and the two 

 lower ones (between median nervure and its first nervule and sub- 



^ Dr. Staiulinger (op. cit., p. 299) suggests that this species and L. hicolor, Trim., pro- 

 bably belong to the genus Ahantis^. 



