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Show 20 DR. W. J. HOLLAND ON THE AFRICAN [J» (1864) : Rhop. Afr. Austr. vol. ii. p. 309, pi. vi. fig. 2 (18<^3); Staud. Exot, Schmett. pi. 100 ; Trim. S. Afr. Butt. p. 349 (1889). Hab. Extra-tropical South Africa. ABANTIS, Hopff. (Leucochitonea, Wallgr.; Sapcea, Ploetz.) I cannot bring myself to differ from Trimen, and to accept conclusion of Watson, that L. levubu, Wallgr., should constitute the type and sole representative of a genus. The difference between this species and the others given below are certainly rather of specific than of generic grade. I therefore sink Wallengren's genus Leucochitonea as a synonym of Abantis, Hopff., as has already been done by Trimen. 63. A. TETTENSIS, Hopff. Abantis tettensis, Hopff. Monatsb. k. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1855, ]). 643 ; Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins. p. 415, pi. xxvi. figs. 16, 17 (1S62); Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 337 (1SS9); Wats. P. Z. S. 189:-!, p. 63. Hab. South Tropical and Temperate Africa. 64. A. PARADISEA, Butl. Leucochitonea paradisea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1870, p. 499 ; Lep. Exot, p. 167, pi. lix. fig. 8 (1874). Hesperia (Oxynetra) namaquana, Westw. Thes. Ent. Oxon. p. 183, pi. xxxiv. fig. 10 (1874). Leucochitonea paradisea, Staudgr. Exot. Schmett. i. pi. 100. Abantis paradisea, Trim. S. Afr. Butt. p. 342 (1889) ; Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 63. Hab. Southern Africa. 65. A. ZAMBESIACA, Westw. Hesperia zambesiaca, Westw. Thes. Ent. Oxon. p. 183, pi. xxxiv. fig. 9 (1874). Abantis zambesina, Trim. S. Afr. Butt. vol. iii. p. 344 (1889); P. Z. S. 1891, p. 105. Sapcva trimevi, Butl. P. Z. S. 1895, p. £64, pi. xv. fig. 5. Hab. Southern Tropical Africa. With the figures of their species, given by Westwood and Butler, before me and a long series of specimens labelled by Mr. Trimen to compare with them, I am wholly at a loss to see what valid reason exists for separating the insect recognized by Dr. Butler as Sapcea trimeni from the insect described by West-wood. It is true that the normal colour of the sides of the abdominal segments of the insect is " snow-white," as stated by Dr. Butler, and brought out in his excellent figure, but the fact that Westwood says that these segments in the type were ' luteous " does not in my judgment furnish sufficient reason to |