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yellow spots above, besides those on the collar. Abdomen with the 
lateral stripes enlarged, quite confluent on each side, and their narrowed I 
dorsal points meeting. 
Colonel Bowker discovered this well-marked species in Kaffraria Proper in | 
1863, and the only specimen (a (J) which the collection he presented in the | 
following year to the South- African Museum contained was described by me , 
in 1864 and figured {pp. cit.) in 1866. Two (J s subsequently received from 
him were noted as taken in January ; they were very swift on the wing, fre- 
quenting the edge of a forest ; one was captured when perched on a twig of 
Hibiscus. Two other s were secured by Colonel Bowker before leaving the 
Bashee River; and more recently (in 1879 and 1883) he has sent four $ s from 
Pinetown in Natal, one of which is marked as captured on the 5th April. 
The insect is evidently very rare : I have seen only four besides the nine 
examples just mentioned, viz., a pair in the collection from Natal sent by 
Colonel Bowker to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886, a $ taken in 
Zululand by Captain Goodrich, and a $ lately (1888) sent to me for examina- 
tion by Mr. A. D. Millar of D'Urban. The latter kind correspondent informs 
me that he has taken but two specimens during his long and successful 
researches in the vicinity of D'Urban. 
Localities of Abantis bicolor. 
I. South Africa. 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River H. Boivker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban {A. D. Millar). Pinetown (/. H. 
Boiuker). 
F. Zululand. — Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich). 
363. (4.) Abantis paradisea, (Butler). 
(J Leucocliito7iea paradisea, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 499; 
and Lep. Exot., p. 167, pi. lix. f. 8 (1874). 
^ Iles2'>eria {Oxynetra) Namaquana^ Westw., Tlies. Ent. Oxon., p. 183, 
pL xxxiv. f. 10 (1874). 
S LeiLcocliitonea paradisea, Stand., Exot. Schmett., i. pi. 100 (1888).^ 
Exp. al, ($) I in. lin. ; ($) 2 in. lin. 
$ Glossy black, with a slight submetallic dark-green Instre : fore- 
whig luitlb rather large semi-transparent white spots near base and inner 
margin, and vitreous ones superiorly and subapically ; hiiid-wing with a 
very large semi-transparent white rounded patch; in both wings the 
semi-tramsparent markings are sometimes tinged with pale ochre-yelloiv ; 
cilia short and black, except about anal angle of hind-wing, where they 
are longer and mixed ivith whitish. Fore-iving : at base, below sub- 
costal nervure, a silky-white spot ; three spots in basal area arranged 
in a triangle, — the upper one small (in discoidal cell), and the two 
lower ones (between median nervure and its first nervule and sub- 
^ Dr. Staudinger [op. cit, p. 299) suggests that this species and L. hicolor, Trim., pro- 
bably belong to the genus Abantis. 
