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The type, which is in The American IMuseum of Natural History, is 

 unique. It was taken at Medje, April 6, 1910. 



The genus Abantis is thus far known to include eighteen species, 

 all of which are found in the ^Ethiopian subregion. They are the 

 following : 



1. Abantis teftensis Hopffer, 1855, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 643; 1862, 



Peters, Reise n. Mossambique, Ins., p. 415, PL xxvi, figs. 16, 17. 

 Eastern tropical Africa. 



2. Abantis paradisea (Butler), 1870, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 499; 1874, Lep. 



Exot., p. 167, PI. Lix, fig. 8. 



Abantis naniaquaana (Westwood), 1874, Thes. Ent. Oxon., p. 183, PI. 



XXXIV, fig. 10, 9 . 

 Southern Africa. 



3. Abantis zamhesiaca (Westwood), 1874, Thes. Ent. Oxon., p. 183, PI. xxxiv, fig. 9. 



Abantis zambezina Trimen, 1889, S. Afr. Butt., Ill, p. 344. . 



Abantis trimeni (Builer), 1895, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 264, PI. xv, 



fig. 5. 

 Southern tropical Africa. 



4. Abantis bismarcki Karsch, 1892, Ent. Nachr., XVIII, p. 228; 1893, Berl. Ent. 



Zeit., XXXVni, p. 242, PL vi, fig. 1. 

 Togoland. 



5. Abantis bicolor (Trimen), 1864, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, (3) II, p. 180; 1866, 



Rhop. Afr. Austr., II, p. 307, PI. vi, fig. 1. 

 South Africa, 



6. ^bonfe miosa Trimen, 1889, S. Afr. Butt., Ill, p. 339; 1891, Proc. ZooL Soc. 



London, p. 105, PL ix, fig. 24. 



Abantis uinvulensis (E. Sharpe), 1890, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) VI, 



p. 348. 

 Southern tropical Africa, Transvaal. 



7. Abantis elegantula (Mabille), 1890, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) X, p. 32. 



Mabille and Vuillot, 1891, Novit. Lep., p. 24, PL in, fig. 6. 

 Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Belgian Congo. 



8. Abantis efulensis Holland, 1896, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 21, PL v, fig. 12. 



Cameroon, Belgian Congo. 



9. Abantis plerotica Karsch, 1896, Ent. Nachr., XXII, p. 374. 



German East Africa. 



10. Abantis leucogaster (Mabille), 1890, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) X, p. 32. 



Mabille and Vuillot, 1891, Novit. Lep., p. 22, PL iii, fig. 5. 

 Sierra Leone. 



11. Aba7itis nigeriana Butler, 1901, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (6) VIII, p. 59. 



Nigeria. 



12. Abantis ardomarginata Lathy, 1901, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 34, PL iii. 



fig. 7. 



Zomba, British Central Africa. 



13. Abantis ja H. H. Druce, 1909, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 408, PL lxvii, fig. 2. 



Interior of Cameroon. 



