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radial originating just midway between upper one and tliird median 
nervule ; first median nervule given off considerably nearer to base 
than to second nervule. Hind-ioings in ^ (except in Levubu) more or 
less prominent inferiorly about anal angle ; costa short, almost straight 
beyond strong basal curve; subcostal nervure branched at some dis- 
tance before extremity of discoidal cell ; disco-cellular and lower radial 
nervules arranged as in fore-wing, but more attenuated, and the former 
less oblique. Legs ^ of moderate length and thickness ; hind-femora 
inferiorly, and middle and hind tibise superiorly more or less hairy ; ap- 
pendage to fore-tibiae narrow, elongate (in Tettensis $ very small, and 
in one example apparently wanting ^) ; middle and hind tibi^ smooth, 
their terminal spurs rather long, but second pair on hind-tibiae in some 
species ( Venosa and Zamhesina) yerj small ; tarsi closely spinulose 
beneath. 
Abdomen tapering in ^, and a little shorter than inner margin of 
hind- wings ; broad and blunt at extremity (and considerably shorter) 
in Sj.. 
Since I have been able to compare specimens of the exceedingly 
rare Abantis Tettensis with Levitbu, Wallengr., and the few other species 
which appear to have been rightly placed in the genus Leucochitonea^ 
Wallengr., I consider that the two reputed genera cannot properly be 
separated, and should be therefore united under Hopffer's earlier name. 
Levuhu, Wallengren's type of Zeucochitonea, certainly diverges more 
from Tettensis than the other species I include under Ahantis, but the 
differences it presents (noted above) are insufficient for generic sepa- 
ration. I agree with Herrich-Schaffer (Corr.-Blatt. Zool.-Min. Ver. 
JRegcnsh., 1868, pp. 32 and 46) that neither the Niveus, Oram. 
( = Arsalte, Linn.), group — though strikingly like Levuhu in general 
aspect — nor the other American species described and figured by 
Felder {Reise der Novara, Lep., iii. pp. 524-525, pi. Ixxiv.), can 
rightly be placed in Leucochitonea ; the latter have indeed been by 
most subsequent writers referred to the genus Pytlionides. Mr. Hewit- 
son also issued {Exot. Butt., vols. iv. and v.) two plates of numerous 
so-called species of Leucochitonea, which cannot be retained in that 
genus, or consequently in Alantis. 
Plotz {Stett. LJnt. Zeit., loc. cit) created the genus Sapoea for A. 
{Leucochitonea) hicolor, mihi, and afterwards added to it (1886) A. 
Zamhesina (Westw.), placed by its describer in the genus Oxynetra, 
Feld., but a near ally of A, (Leucochitonea) paradisea, Butl. These 
species and Venosa, mihi, n. sp., are unquestionably inseparable generi- 
cally from Tettensis, Hopff. 
Four of the five known South- African species have been met with 
in the South-Tropical belt, the exception being A. hicolor, which appears 
^ The fore-coxse in the S Levuhu have a conspicuous tuft of very long black hairs spring- 
ing close to the junction with the femur, and directed posteriorly. 
Hopffer (oj3. cit.) notes that this appendage was wanting in the ? Tettensis he described. 
