1893.] ME. B, Y. WATSON ON THE HESPERIIDiE. 63 



35. Genus Leucochitonea. 



Leucochitonea, Wallgr. Rhop. Caffr. p. 52 (1857). 



Type, levuhu, Wallgr. 



Antenuse less than half the length of costa ; club moderate, less 

 robust than in Abantis, recurved, tip blunt. Palpi porrect ; second 

 joint short ; third joint long, slender, bluntly pointed. Fore wing : 

 inner and outer margins subequal ; no costal fold in male ; cell less 

 than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaching costa well 

 before the end of cell ; discocellulars inwardly oblique, the lower the 

 longer; vein 3 shortly before end of cell; vein 2 only slightly 

 nearer to base of "wing than to vein 3 ; lower margin of cell arched 

 between veins 2 and 3. Hind wing not conspicuously elongated ; 

 outer margin slightly sinuate ; vein " shortly before end of cell ; 

 discocellulars and vein 5 barely traceable ; vein 3 immediately before 

 end of cell ; vein 2 considerably nearer to end of cell than to base of 

 wing. Hind tibise with two pairs of spurs, the terminal pair con- 

 siderably the longer. In the male there is a conspicuous tuft of 

 radiating hairs affixed to the fore coxae. Female with a dense tuft 

 of closely set hairs at extremity of abdomen. 



Trimeu considers this genus identical with Abantis, and that the 

 differences between the two genera pointed out by him are not 

 sufficient for generic separation. The type is the only known species 

 of the genus ; the numerous New-World species put in the genus 

 by various authors in no way belong to it. 



levuhu, Wallgr. 

 Confined to Africa. 



36. Genus Abantis. (Plate III. fig. 16.) 

 Abantis, Hopff. Verb. Akad. Wiss. Berl. p. 643 (1855). 



Type, tettensis, Hoj)ff. 

 Sapcea, Pldtz, Stett. ent. Zeit. vol. xl. p. 177 (1879). 



Type, bicolor, Trim. 

 Antennte short, less than half the length of costa ; club robust, 

 sharply recurved, tip blunt. Palpi porrect ; third joint short, obtusely 

 conical. Fore wing : inner and outer margins subequal ; no costal 

 fold in male ; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 12 

 reaching costa well before the end of cell ; discocellulars strongly in- 

 wardly oblique, the lower the longer ; vein 3 immediately before end 

 of cell ; vein 2 slightly nearer to base of wing than to end of cell. 

 Hind wing rather elongated, less conspicuously in the female ; outer 

 margin slightly excavated at vein 5 ; vein 7 shortly before end of 

 cell ; discocellulars outwardly oblique ; vein 5 traceable but not 

 fully developed ; vein 3 immediately before end of cell ; vein 2 

 nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind tibiae fringed and 

 with two pairs of spurs, the upper pair minute. 



tettensis, 'H.o]it£. 1. 



bicolor, Trim 2. 



paradisea, Butl 3. 



Trimeu notes that the epiphysis on the fore tibise appears to be 



