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Argynnis, Fabricius, by Mr. Samuel H. Scudder and others, it is 

 apparently a character not at all to be relied on even in the same 

 species. In my tvro female specimens of Argynnis altissima, Elwes, 

 one lias this nervule emitted some considerable distance beyond, the 

 other exactly at the apex of the cell ; while in the ten specimens of 

 A. maekinnonii that I have examined, nine have the veinlet given 

 off well beyond, while one has it at the end of the cell. In typical 

 Argynnis the nervule in question is given off before the end of the 

 cell. We have, therefore, in the genus Argynnis the second sub- 

 costal nervule emitted before, at, and beyond the end of the cell, 

 and in t^vo Indian species at any rate the position of this veinlet is 

 inconstant. 



4. NEPTIS JSTAR, n. sp., PL F, Fig. 6, $ . 



Habitat : South Andaman Isles. 



Expanse : $ , 2'7 inches. 



Description: Female. Upperside, both wings black. Cilia black, 

 a small portion white on each internervular fold. Forewing -with a 

 lengthened increasing ochreous band occupying the posterior half of 

 the discoidal cell, hardly separated from a triangular ochreous-white 

 spot beyond ; three outwardly-obliquely-placed conjoined subapical 

 ochreous-white spots, their edges tinged with darker ochreous, the 

 uppermost spot linear, very small ; a sinuous submarginal, a more 

 straight marginal obscure sullied line ; four inwardly-obliquety- 

 placed discal ochreous-white spots, arranged two and two, from near 

 the middle of the inner margin to the second median interspace ; 

 the uppermost spot a small clump of ochreous scales only, the next 

 rounded, the two posterior divided only by the submedian nervure. 

 Hindwing with a broad anteriorly-decreasing almost pure white dis- 

 cal band, just faintly tinged with ochreous only, commencing from 

 the abdominal margin, but not reaching the costa ; an obscure much 

 narrower submarginal sullied band. Underside, both icings blackish- 

 brown, all the white markings of the upperside suffused with pale 

 violet. Forewing with the discoidal streak joined to the triangular 

 spot beyond, but anteriorly notched at the end of the cell ; the discal 

 spots larger c.n r l whiter ; the two lines on the margin broader, 

 purplish-white, prominent. Hindwing, with a short basal pure 

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