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Show 1893.] ME. E. Y. WATSON ON THE HESPEEIID^. 63 35. Genus LEUCOCHITONEA. Leucochitonea, Wallgr. Rhop. Caffr. p. 52 (1857). Type, levubu, Wallgr. Antenna? less than half the length of costa; club moderate, less robust than in Abantis, recurved, tip blunt. Palpi porrect; second joint short; third joint long, slender, bluntly pointed. Fore wing : inner and outer margins subequal; no costal fold in male; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaching costa well before the end of cell; discocellulars inwardly oblique, the lower the longer; vein 3 shortly before end of cell; vein 2 only slightly nearer to base of wing than to vein 3 ; lower margin of cell arched between veins 2 and 3. Hind wing not conspicuously elongated; outer margin slightly sinuate ; vein 7 shortly before end of cell; discocellulars and vein 5 barely traceable ; vein 3 immediately before end of cell; vein 2 considerably nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind tibise with two pairs of spurs, the terminal pair considerably the longer. In the male there is a conspicuous tuft of radiating hairs affixed to the fore coxse. Female with a dense tuft of closely set hairs at extremity of abdomen. Trimen considers this genus identical with Abantis, and that the differences between the two genera pointed out by him are not sufficient for generic separation. The type is the only known species of the genus ; the numerous New-World species put in the genus by various authors in no way belong to it. levubu, Wallgr. Confined to Africa. 36. Genus ABANTIS. (Plate III. tig. 16.) Abantis, Hopff. Verh. Akad. Wiss. Berl. p. 643 (1855). Type, tettensis, Hopff. Sapeea, Plbtz, Stett. ent. Zeit. vol. xl. p. 177 (1879). Type, bicolor, Trim. Antennse short, less than half the length of costa ; club robust, sharply recurved, tip blunt. Palpi porrect; third joint short, obtusely conical. Fore wing : inner and outer margins subequal; no costal fold in male ; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 12 reaching costa well before the end of cell; discocellulars strongly inwardly oblique, the lower the longer ; vein 3 immediately before end of cell; vein 2 slightly nearer to base of wing than to end of cell. Hind wing rather elongated, less conspicuously in the female ; outer margin slightly excavated at vein 5 ; vein 7 shortly before end of cell; discocellulars outwardly oblique; vein 5 traceable but not fully developed ; vein 3 immediately before end of cell; vein 2 nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind tibise fringed and with two pairs of spurs, the upper pair minute. tettensis, Hopff. 1. bicolor, Trim 2. paradisea, Butl 3. Trimen notes that the epiphysis on the fore tibise appears to be |