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so strongly developed, but several exhibit a yellowish tinge over the 
spots in question, as well as over the large white patch in the hind- 
wings, — notably a specimen from Zululand and another (smaller than 
usual) from Ehanda, to the northward of Ovampoland. 
The only specimen of the $ that has come under my notice was cap- 
tured at Etshowe, in Zululand, by Captain Goodrich, of the 27th Innis- 
killing Fusiliers ; it is much larger than the with the wings (espe- 
cially the hind- wings) blunter and subtruncate. 
A. paradisea is a very handsome species, but is surpassed in beauty by its 
near congener A. Zamhezina (Westw.),^ of which a single $ was brought from 
tlie Zambesi many years ago by the Rev. H. Rowley, but which in 1887 was 
taken rather numerously by Mr. Eriksson in the country between Northern 
Ovampoland and Ombuella. Mr. Walter Morant in October 1869 sent me a 
specimen of Paradisea, with the information that it was captured with out- 
spread wings on a young Syringatree at Pinetown, Natal, and that the butterfly 
occurred there in the months of March, April, and May. Colonel Bowker has 
forwarded examples taken in the same locality on 5th April, and nearer 
D'Urban in the middle of February and in June ; and he notes that the wings 
are always held either open or not more than half closed, and that the species 
much affects loquat trees. He adds that a number of the pupse were found at 
Umzinto, on the coast of Natal, in the rotting stumps of a wooden fence. Mr. 
A. D. Millar, of D'Urban, writes that Pinetown is the only locality known to 
him for this species, and that he had caught several fine examples there towards 
the end of April, including ^ and 9 ^'^ copuld. He notes that the 9 had 
" orange markings in place of the white ones of the ^ and describes the ^ s 
as " settling on twigs and leaves, darting about and returning to the same 
spot." 
In 1878 I received from Mr. H. Barber a single specimen captured by 
him not far from Shoshong (Bamangwato). 
Localities of Abantis paradisea. 
1. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban {J. H. Boicker). Pinetown (TK 
Morant^ B. Ayres, J. H. Boivker, and A. D. Millar). 
F. Zululand. — Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich and T. Vachell). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourenjo Marques {Mrs, Monteiro). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
ai. Western Interior. — Omrora and Ehanda, northward of Ovampo- 
land {A. W. Eriksson), 
hi. Eastern Interior. — Bamangwato Country {H. Barber). 
1 Thes. Ent. Oxoii., p. 183, pi. xxxiv, f. 9 (1874). This lovely insect is smaller than 
Paradisea, and the ground-colour of the wings is on both surfaces brilliantly glossed with 
metallic blue and green ; the spots of the fore-wing are mostly larger ; and the collar and 
large posterior tufts of the thorax, as well as the anal tuft of the abdomen, are rich deep 
red with a tinge of carmine, while the sides of the abdomen are pure white bordered with 
black. In the type specimen figured by Westwood— of which I made a description in 1867 
— the sides of the abdomen were dull-yellowish, having probably become discoloured. I 
have not yet met with the ? of this species. 
