344 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



so strongly developed, but several exhibit a yellowish tinge over the 

 spots in question, as well as over the large white patch in the hind- 

 wings, — notably a specimen from Zululaud and another (smaller than 

 usual) from Ehanda, to the northward of Ovampoland. 



The only specimen of the $ that has come under my notice was cap- 

 tured at Etshowe, in Zululand, by Captain Goodrich, of the 27th Innis- 

 killing Fusiliers ; it is much larger than the $, with the wings (espe- 

 cially the hind- wings) blunter and subtruncate. 



A. paradlsea is a very handsome specie?, but is surpassed in beauty by its 

 near congener A. Zavthezina (Westw.),i of which a single $ was brought from 

 the Zambesi many years ago by the Rev. H. Rowley, but which in 1887 was 

 taken rather numerously by Mr. Eriksson in the country between Northern 

 Ovampoland and Ombuella. Mr. "Walter Morant in October 1869 sent me a 

 specimen of Faradisea, with the information that it was captured with out- 

 spread wings on a young Syringa tree at Pinetown, Natal, and that the butterfly 

 occurred there in the months of March, April, and May. Colonel Bowker has 

 forwarded examples taken in the same locality on 5th April, and nearer 

 D'Urban in the middle of February and in June ; and he notes that the Avings 

 are always held either open or not more than half closed, and that the species 

 much affects loquat trees. He adds that a number of the pupa? were found at 

 Umzinto, on the coast of Natal, in the rotting stumps of a wooden fence. Mr. 

 A. D. Millar, of D'Urban, writes that Pinetown is the only locality known to 

 him for this species, and that he had caught several fine examples there towards 

 the end of April, including ^ and $ in copuld. He notes that the $ had 

 " orange markings in place of the white ones of the ^ " and describes the $ s 

 as " settling on twigs and leaves, darting about and returning to the same 

 spot." 



In 1878 I received from Mr. H. Barber a single specimen captured by 

 Inm not far from Shoshong (Bamangwato). 



Localities of Abantis paradisea. 



I. South Africa. 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban {J. H. Botcher). Pinetown (IF. 

 Morant, B. Ayres, J. H. Boivker, and A. D. Millar). 



F. Zululand.— Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich and T. Vachell). 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourengo Marques [Mrs. Monteiro). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



ax. Western Interior. — Omrora and Ehanda, northward of Ovampo- 

 land (A. W. Eriksson). 

 hi. Eastern Interior. — Bamangwato Country {H. Barber). 



^ Thes. Ent. Oxon., p. 183, pi. xxxiv. f. 9 (1874). This lovely insect is smaller than 

 Paradisea, and the ground-colour of the wings is on both surfaces brilliantly glossed with 

 metallic blue and green ; the spots of the fore-wing are mostly larger ; and the collar and 

 large posterior tufts of the thorax, as well as the anal tuft of the abdomen, are rich deep 

 red with a tinge of carmine, while the sides of the abdomen are pure white bordered with 

 black. In the type specimen figured by Westwood— of which I made a description in 1867 

 — the sides of the abdomen were dull-yellowish, having probably become discoloured. I 

 have not yet met with the ? of this species. 



