20 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [Jan. 14, 
(1864); Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 309, pl. vi. fig. 2 (1866); 
Staud. Exot. Schmett. pl. 100; Trim. S. Afr. Butt. p. 349 (1889). 
Hab, Extra-tropical South Africa. 
Axantis, Hopff. 
(Leucochitonea, Wallgr.; Sapea, Ploetz.) 
I cannot bring myself to differ from Trimen, and to accept the 
conclusion of Watson, that L. levubu, Wallgr., should constitute the 
type and sole representative of a genus. The difference between 
this species and the others given below are certainly rather of 
specific than of generic grade. I therefore sink Wallengren’s 
genus Leucochitonea as a synonym of <Abantis, Hopff., as has 
already been done by Trimen. 
63, A, rerrENnsis, Hopff. 
Abantis tettensis, Hopf. Monatsb. k. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1855, 
p. 643; Peters’ Reise Mossamb., Ins. p. 415, pl. xxvi. figs. 16, 17 
(1862); Trim. 8. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 3837 (1889); Wats. P. Z. 8. 
1893, p. 63. 
Hab. South Tropical and Temperate Africa. 
64. A. PARADISEA, Butl. 
Leucochitonea paradisea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1870, 
p. 499 ; Lep. Exot. p. 167, pl. lix. fig. 8 (1874). 
Hesperia (Oxynetra) namaquana, Westw. Thes. Ent. Oxon. 
p- 183, pl. xxxiv. fig. 10 (1874). 
Leucochitonea paradisea, Staudgr. Exot. Schmett. i. pl. 100. 
Abantis paradisea, Trim. 8, Afr, Butt. p. 342 (1889); Wats. 
P. Z. 8. 1893, p. 63. 
Hab. Southern Africa, 
65. A. ZAMBESIACA, Westw. 
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Hesperia zambesiaca, Westw. Thes. Ent. Oxon. p. 183, pl. xxxiv. 
fig. 9 (1874). 
Abantis zambesina, Trim. 8. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 244 (1889) ; 
Pi Z.:8. 1891. p..105, 
Sapea trimeni, Butl. P. Z. 8, 1895, p. 264, pl. xv. fig. 5. 
Hab. Southern Tropical Africa, 
With the figures of their species, given by Westwood and 
Butler, before me and a long series of specimens labelled by 
Mr. Trimen to compare with them, I am wholly at a loss to see 
what valid reason exists for separating the insect recognized by 
Dr. Butler as Sapa trimeni from the insect described by West- 
wood. It is true that the normal colour of the sides of the 
abdominal segments of the insect is “ snow-white,” as stated by 
Dr. Butler, and brought out in his excellent figure, but the fact 
that Westwood says that these segments in the type were 
_‘luteous” does not in my judgment furnish sufficient reason to 
