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in 2 and 3 and subapical dots in 6 to 8. Hindwing above with a white basal dot and a straight white 
median band in 1 c to 6. The under surface is more monotonously dark grey with almost the same white 
markings but with two basal spots of the hindwing. The forewing above shows in the marginal part a 
very faint greenish hue by far not so as in the figure. Cape Colony to Angola, Nyassa and Usambara. 
3. Genus: Abaiitls Hpffr. 
This genus differs from the others in a conspicuous way in the marks mentioned in the review of the 
genera. It contains several pretty but mostly very rare species which are widely distributed on the African 
Continent, whereas in Madagascar and the other islands they are absent. 
Review of the Species. 
A. Hindwing on both sides with 5 to 7 sharply defined black punctiform spots, 2 in area 7, 2 in the discal cell, 
and 1 to 3 in 1 c. Hind body black with white posterior edges of the segments. A. tettensis. 
B. Hind wing without black punctiform spots. 
a. Hindwing on both sides black or steel-blue with three large white spots (in 1 c, 7 and the discal cell 
as well as the base of 4 and 5) and 2 or 3 small ones (in 2 [3] and 6); all are separated by the dark veins. 
Forewing with 2 or 3 white or yellowish spots in 1 b, one basal spot each in 2 and in the discal cell, and 
7 hyaline spots (a large one in the apex of the cell and one each in 2, 3, 5 to 7 or 8). Frons before the 
antennae white. Collar on each side w r ith a red spot. Abdomen with variegated colours and an orange 
or red anal pencil. 
*. Wings with a black ground-colour. Abdomen above with 4 broad, red transverse bands, sometimes 
interrupted on the dorsum. Shoulder-covers with a whitish spot at the base and an oblong orange-red 
central spot. Mesodorsum on each side with an orange spot. Metadorsum on each side with a large 
black, at the anterior edge white hair-pencil. Forewing generally without a hyaline spot in area 8. 
Hindwing on both sides in area 1 a white, in 1 b black. Palpi beneath ochreous-yellow. 
A. paradisea. 
**. Ground-colour of the wings steel-blue with a slight green lustre. Abdomen on each side in the centre 
with a large white or reddish-yellow spot formed by the confluent transverse bands and above separated 
by a dark dorsal line. Shoulder-covers with a white spot at the base (often covered) and a 
white spot in the centre. Mesodorsum on each side with a white spot. Metadorsum on each side 
with a large red hair-pencil. Palpi beneath black with two large white spots, one on the first 
joint and one on the second. Forewing with a hyaline spot in area 8. The areas 1 a and 1 b of the 
hindwing on both sides blue-black or almost black. A. zambesiaca. 
(i. Wings never coloured and marked as in a. 
*. Forewing above dark coloured with or without light markings. 
§. Hindwing without a dark transverse spot at the end of the discal cell. Forewing almost invariably 
with white hyaline spots. 
o. Forewing above at least in the marginal part jet-black with large, longish or linear spots in 
the areas 1 b to 8 or at least in 1 b to 3, 6 to 8 and in the discal cell. 
+ . Both wings beneath of a bright yellow with a fine black marginal line, some dark 
spots in the centre of the forewing and the veins at least partly black. Fore wing above 
as far as the base black with yellow spots: three basal spots (2 in 1 b, one in the 
cell), 8 discal spots (in 1 b to 8), and a transverse spot in the apex of the discal cell. 
Hindwing above yellow, at the distal margin and at the hind-margin black. 
A. bicolor. 
+ +. Ground-colour beneath not yellow. Forewing with white markings. Hindwing on both 
sides white with dark margins. Forewing above black, in the basal third more or 
less covered with yellow or reddish-yellow. 
-. Forewing instead of the spots with fine white longitudinal lines, two each in 1 b 
and the discal cell, and one each in 2 to 8. A. leucogaster. 
—. Forewing with white discal spots in 1 b to 3 (4), 5 to 8 and a large quadrangular 
spot in the discal cell. A. bismarcki. 
oo. Forewing above brown, yellowish-brown, or yellowish, with distinctly prominent black veins 
and white hyaline spots at least in 6 to 8 (subapical spots). Area 1 b always spotless. 
+ . Forewing with hyaline spots in 2, 3 and in the discal cell (one or 2 oblong ones). 
