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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
markings of fore-wing not (or very fi\intly and partially) blackish- 
edged, and the smallest of the three middle ones much reduced or 
obsolete ; hind-wing without inferior diffused widening of hind-marginal 
lorder. Under side. — White much more restricted, confined to inner- 
marginal inferior half of wing; black hind-marginal border obsolete 
superiorly, and almost so inferiorly, except on anal-angular prominence, 
where it is very much narrower. (Ilab. — Ehanda, interior of Western 
South-Tropical Africa.)^ 
The discovery of this species is due to Mr. C. F. Palmer, who forwarded 
the two rather worn specimens above described from Eureka, near Barberton, 
Eastern Transvaal, with the note that one of them was captured on 4th April 
1888 about teak trees growing on a stony ridge. Although very different in 
the colouring and marking of the wings, and considerably larger, this species is 
in form, and apparently to a large extent in the marking of the head and body, 
nearly related to A. Tettensis. The complete black neuration of the upper side 
at once distinguishes it from the other South- African species of the genus.^ 
Localities of Ahantis venosa. 
I. South Africa. 
K. Transvaal. — Barberton (C. F. Palmer). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South-Tropical. 
ai. Western Interior. — Ehanda {A. W. Eriksson) — [Var. A.]. 
362. (3.) Abantis bicolor, (Trimen). 
^ Leucochitonea hicolor^ Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3rd Ser,, ii. p. 180 
(1864); and Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 307, n. 201, pi. 6, f. i (1866). 
Ex-p. al., {$) I in. 5-6 lin. ; ($) i in. 6-7 lin. 
J Very pale ochreous-yellow, with black margins: fore-wing with 
large Hack spots. Fore-wing : costa with a black border, narrowing to 
apex, where it joins the broad, interiorly irregularly-dentate, hind- 
marginal black band ; inner margin also narrowly bordered with black ; 
close to base, between median and submedian nervures, a large spot ; 
a little beyond it two large spots form an oblique fascia, interrupted on 
first median nervule, between costal border and submedian nervure 
beyond middle ; a large irregular costal spot or patch between middle 
^ Besides the two examples of the Variety here described, I have one $ from the same 
locality, and have seen two others in Mr, Jameson's collection from the Um-Vuli (a tributary 
of the Zambesi, in Mashunaland), in which all the transparent spots of the fore-wings are 
wanting, the white of the under side of the hind-wings and the blackish border at anal 
angle being also almost obsolete. In the existing dearth of material I am unable to decide 
whether these examples belong to a distinct species : the markings of head and body appear 
to be identical with those of the Variety. 
^ I noted a large (possibly 9 ) specimen of this species in Mr. H. Grose Smith's collection 
in October 1886. I omitted to record the locality, but believe that it was Delagoa Bay. 
