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ABANTIS. By Dr. C. Atjrivillitis. 
tettensis. 
paradisea. 
zambesiaca. 
bicolor. 
leucogaster. 
bismarcki. 
arctomargi- 
nata. 
-. Forewing above from the base to the apex light brownish-yellow, then smoke- 
brown, beneath quite ochreous-yellow. Hindwing on both sides white with dark 
margins. A. loju. 
—. Forewing above not or only in the basal third yellowish. 
1. Hindwing at the base with three oblong hyaline spots, 2 in the discal cell 
and one in area 7. 
2. Hindwing without hyaline spots. 
a. Hindwing above in the centre very extensively white or at least with a 
light median band. 
a'. Hindwing above blackish-brown with a yellowish-white median band 
of but 4 mm width from vein 8 to the fold of area 1 c. 
A. elegantula. 
b'. Hindwing above with a broad white median band from the costal 
margin to vein I b or 1 a, or still more extensively white or whitish. 
A. nigeriana. 
A. lucretia. 
b. Hindwing above brownish-yellow with all the veins and a narrow marginal 
band black. A. venosa. 
+ +. Forewing without hyaline spots in 2, 3, and the discal cell. 
1. Forewing with hyaline dots in 6 to 8. Hindwing almost white, above at the base 
broadly blackish, and at the costal angle and at the hind-margin more or less 
darkened. A. efulensis. 
2. Forewing without any hyaline spots. Hindwing on both sides with a brownish- 
yellow ground-colour. A. venosa var. vidua. 
§§. Forewing above without any hyaline spots or other light spots, light reddish-grey with black 
veins. Hindwing pale reddish with black veins and a dark spot at the end of the discal cell. 
A. rubra. 
**. Both wings above and beneath from the base to far beyond the centre of a pure white. Forewing 
with a black, equally broad marginal line, a similar, somewhat undulate submarginal line which 
is connected with the marginal line by the black veins, whereby a series of white marginal dots are 
separated, and a black, slanting subapical band from the costal margin to vein 4, where it is generally 
united with the black submarginal line. By this subapical band a second row of 5 or 6 white spots 
is separated. Hindwing on both sides with a black, towards the anal angle slightly widened marginal 
line. Fringes of both wings speckled black and white. — Leucochitonea Wallengr. A. levebu. 
A. tettensis Hpffr. (75 a). Palpi below light yellow. Shoulder-covers black with white margins. Forewing 
above blackish-grey with a whitish basal streak at the costal margin and in 1 b (which is parted into two spots 
towards the margin), two white spots in the discal cell, white discal spots in 1 b to 8, and white marginal spots; 
the latter and the discal spots are partly confluent. Hindwing above whitish, beneath more yellowish, with a 
black, often white-spotted marginal band. Fringes of the wings speckled black and white. Cape Colony to 
Angola and Zambesi. 
A. paradisea Btlr. (= namaquana Ww .) (76 i) is sufficiently characterized by the figures and the 
description in the review. Prothorax and palpi below ochreous-yellow. Natal, Ovambo Land, Rhodesia, and 
Madibira. 
A. zambesiaca Ww. (= zambesina Plotz, trimeni Btlr.) (75 a) is above described at large. The large 
white lateral spot of the abdomen, if the white scales are rubbed off or damaged, turns yellowish or reddish, 
as a specimen at hand shows. Zambesi, Mashona Land, Rhodesia. 
A. bicolor Trim. (76 i) deviates considerably from all the other species by the colour and marking. 
This rare species is only known from Caffraria, Natal, and the Zulu Land.. 
A. leucogaster Mab. (75 a) differs from all the other species in the white longitudinal lines of the 
forewing. Head and thorax black with white guttiform spots; shoulder-covers at the apex yellow-haired. 
Mesodorsum and metadorsum on each side with a yellow hair-pencil. Abdomen white with a black dorsal band 
and a black lateral line on each side of the venter; anal pencil blackish. Sierra Leone and South Cameroon. 
A. bismarcki Karsch (75 a). The figured specimen represents a According to Karsch, however, the $ 
differs but little from the $, chiefly only in the discal spot 1 b being smaller and by the absence of the white 
dot in 2. The discal spot 3 is small and irregular. Marginal band of the hindwing broad and dotted white. Togo- 
land. — arctomargirsata Lathy only deviates by the discal spot 3 of the forewing being equally broad and oblong, 
