346 SOUTH-AFEICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



This beautiful insect bears a strong superficial resemblance to tlie 

 Soutli- American Arsalte, Linn. ( — Niveus, Cram.), which, with Petrus, 

 Hiibn., and other New- World allies, has been by authors misplaced in 

 the genus Zcucochitonca, differing as they all do very markedly in 

 their much more slender antennae with a thin very gently- curved 

 club, more hirsute palpi, smaller thorax, shorter abdomen, and much 

 blunter fore-wings. Lcvuhii is unlike every other South-African 

 member of the Hcsperidcv, and must be highly conspicuous in its pure- 

 white black-edged livery when on the wing. It seems to present 

 scarcely any variation, but the $ s lately (1888) received from Northern 

 Ovampoland — where they were taken by Mr. Eriksson — have the black 

 markings thicker in the fore-wings. Only two ^ s have come under 

 my notice, — one taken on the Upper Limpopo by Mr. F. H. Barber in 

 1875, and the other by Mr. H. Barber in Matabeleland in 1878 

 or 1879. 



Though having a pretty wide range through Tropical South Africa, Levubu 

 does not appear to have been met with abundantly in any locality. Its most 

 southern station known to me is Griqualand West, wliere (at Ivlipdrift, on the 

 Vaal River) Mrs. Barber and Colonel Bowker both took a few specimens. The 

 latter, in November 1871, found the butterfly only about a particular hill-top, 

 keeping to a space of limited extent ; it was exceedingly swift on the wing, 

 and looked in flight like a bit of burnished silver. Mr. Eriksson's Ovampo- 

 land examples are noted as taken in November 1887 and January 1888. 

 Mr. T. Ayres has forwarded six specimens from the district of Potchefstrooni, 

 Traansvaal. 



Localities of Abantis Zevuhu. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



c. Griqualand West.— Vaal River ; Barkly (Mrs. Barber and J. H. 

 Bowker). 

 Iv. Transvaal. — Upper Limpopo {H. Barber, F. H. Barter, and F. C. 

 Selous). Potchefstroom District (T. Ayres). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Damaraland (J. A. Bell). 



a I. Western Interior. — North-East Damaraland : Omaramba — Oama- 

 tako (A. W. Eriksson). North Ovampoland : Omrora {A. W. 

 Eriksso7i). 

 hi. Eastern Interior. — Matabeleland {H. Barber). Tati River (J. L. 

 Fry). " Sakasusi or Dry River (Oafes)." — Westwood. 



Genus CAPRONA. 



Caprona, Wallengren, K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Ilandl., 1857 ; Lep. Rhop. Caffr., 



P- 51- 

 Caivona, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 308 (1866). 



Imago. — Head densely clothed above with long scales and short 

 hairs ; tuft of hairs near base of each antenna slender ; palpi as in 

 Abantis, but very short terminal joint rather broader and more dis- 



