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to be limited to Kaflfraria Proper, Natal, and Zululand. Tettensis and 
Levuhu have been taken on the Vaal Eiver, in Griqnaland West, and 
Venosa in the Eastern Transvaal. Paradisea is recorded from Natal, 
Zulnland, and Delagoa Bay, and appears to be less rare than, its 
congeners. 
The species are very different in colouring and pattern. Tettensis 
j has the fore-wings blackish with large whitish markings, and the hind- 
i wings white with a few black spots, and faintly margined with pale-red 
j beneath. Venosa is pale brownish-grey tinged with ochre-yellow, and 
has all the neuration black above. Bicolor is pale ochre-yellow with a 
black border, and has four large black spots in the fore-wings. Paradisea 
is shining bluish-black with transparent and white (or pale-yellowish) 
spots and hind-wing patch ; the body being spotted with orange and 
white. Levuhu is of the purest white, with a white spotted black 
border and the ends of nervules black ; its upper and under surfaces 
scarcely differ. 
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360. (1.) Abantis Tettensis, Hopffer. 
$ Abantis Tettensis, HopfF., " Monatsb. K. Akad. Wissensch. Berl., 1855, 
p. 643;" and Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins., p. 415, pi. xxvi. ff. 16, 
17 (1862). 
PJxp. al, ($) I in. 3-4 lin. ; ($) I in. 5 lin. 
$ Blackish, with large yellowish-white semi-transparent lasal and 
discal markings in fore-wing, and a hind-marginal series of small spots 
in hath wings; hind-wiiig white, with Mack spots and hind-marginal 
border. Fore-wing : neuration black ; two white longitudinal stripes 
from base, the upper one narrow, along costal border to a little beyond 
middle — the lower one broad, occupying space between median nervure 
with part of its first nervule and submedian nervure to a little before 
middle ; in discoidal cell, crossed by fold, a large white spot very near 
extremity; a superiorly strongly- curved, inferiorly sinuate discal row 
of eight spots, of which the five upper are small and elongate (the first 
and second almost linear), and form a continuous subapical curved bar ; 
the sixth is small, subquadrate, separate, between second and third 
median nervules ; and the seventh and eighth are much larger, and in 
a direct line between disco-cellular spot and submedian nervure ; seven 
spots in hind-marginal series, the lowest bisected by black line of intra- 
neural fold. Mind-wing : field white up to costal edge, but more or 
less obscured with blackish along inner- marginal border; a very small 
black spot in discoidal cell at base, and another near base between 
costal and subcostal nervures ; slightly before middle a curved transverse 
row of three widely- separated rather large spots ; a submarginal row of 
six small spots, mostly touching the diffused blackish inner edge of 
hind-marginal black border (which becomes very broad in anal-angular 
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