IIESPERID.E. 345 



364. (5.) Abantis Levubu, ("Wallengren). 



S Leucochitonea Levtibu, Wallcngr., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. llandl., 1857 ; 



I.ep. Khop. Caffr., p. 52. 

 „ ,, Trim., Khop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 306, n. 200 (1866). 



Plate XII. fig-. 5 (^)} 



Exp. al., (^) I in. 6-y lin. ; ($) i in. 7J- lin. 



^ Pure lohite, ivith narrow hlacJc margins. Fore-wing : costa and 

 Lind-margin rather narrowly edged throughout ; a submarginal black 

 streak, slightly inclining towards hind-marginal black, and becoming 

 obsolete about or rather above submedian nervure ; before this, a curved 

 black streak from costa beyond middle extends to third median ner- 

 vule, where it joins submarginal streak ; all nervuhs, hetiueen curved 

 streak and eosta and hind-margin, clouded with black, as well as (more 

 slightly) those in lower half of wing, near hind-margin ; by these black 

 markings a hind-marginal series of seven, and a curved subapical series 

 of six white spots (the latter much more elongate than the former spots) 

 are completely separated from the white field. Hind-iving : hind- 

 margin with a narrow edge, becoming broad at anal angle, whence it 

 radiates on nervules (chiefly along submedian nervure, which is clouded 

 throughout). Under side. — Scarcely differing from tipper side. Hind- 

 iving : inner margin edged with black ; a black ray between it and 

 submedian nervure ; median nervules black towards hind-margin, 

 especially the first, between which and submedian nervure is a short 

 black ray ; a hroad black clouding conspicuously marks basal half of costal 

 nervure. Cilia white, black-spotted at ends of nervules ; at anal angle 

 of hind-wing longer than elsewhere. 



Head above black, with the following white spots, viz., one frontal, 

 one central and vertical, one posterior to base of each antenna ; palpi 

 above black, with a conspicuous white spot at base of middle joint, and 

 a smaller one at extremity of that joint ; beneath, pure white, except 

 terminal joint, which is black. Thorax above black, clothed with long 

 white hair laterally and posteriorly ; collar with a median white spot 

 and a larger ochre-yellow one on each side ; pterygodes conspicuously 

 deep ochre-yellow in basal half, but beyond that white and hairy ; beneath 

 white frontally, mesially, and posteriorly, but ochre-yellow laterally ; legs 

 black, with the front of the tibia) and the terminal half of tlie front of 

 the femora of the middle and hind pairs pure white. Abdomen above 

 black, with a black anal tuft, beneath and on the sides pure white. 



^ Like ^, but the black streaks and outer neuration more finely 

 marked, so that the separated hind-marginal and subapical spots are 

 all rather larger. Ochre-yellow slioulder-patches on thorax paler. 



^ This figure is much too yellow, the white ground being in nature quite pure ; the inner- 

 marginal shading in the liind-wings is too dark ; and the rich ochre-yellow shoulder-patches 

 are very inadequately shown. 



