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black band along the costa of those wings in the males is wider than in Mv. Semper's 

 figure No. 11, but in the females is of the same width. The suft'usiou of yellow over 

 the greenish blue anal area is scarcely visible. 



lOG. Neptis antara Moore. 

 One specimen from Gani. 



107. Neptis consimilis Hoisd. 

 A long series, in some of which the pale brown oblique band towards the ai)ex is 

 confluent with the discal band of the same colour ; in others they scarcely touch each 

 other, and in the third form they are quite separate. There is a dwarf, less than half 

 the size of the largest specimen ; biit I am unable to find any distinguishing charac- 

 teristic apart from its size. 



A long series. 

 One example only. 



108. Neptis shepherdi, Moore. 

 lO'J. Neptis heliopolis Fi-lder. 



110. Neptis papua Oberthiir. 

 A long series of Isoth sexes. Tlie wliite band which crosses the posterior wings is 

 of variable width, especially in the male. 

 Hah- Mansinam and Humboldt Bay. 



111. Neptis satina sp. nov. 

 (PI. XII., fig. 3.) 

 Male. — Upperside: both wings velvety black. Anterior wings without any 

 markings in the cell, with a large white spot on the disc, divided by the middle 

 median nervule, edged externally with blue scales, beneath which, rather nearer the 

 base, is another white spot divided by the submedian nervure, the lower part of which 

 extends inwardly along the inner margin, edged on both sides with blue scales. 

 Towards the apex, between the veins, are two curved rows of white spots, three spots 

 in each row, the spots in the inner row the largest and most elongate, those in the 

 outer row small, beyond these near the margin are two small clusters of white scales, 

 nearly obsolete ; a .nanow white streak on the margin at the ai)ex. Between the 

 middle median nervule and submedian nervure are two submarginal bluish white 

 uaiTow streaks. Posterior wings with a white band across the wings from about the 

 middle of the costal margin to about the middle of the inner margin, and a faint 

 indication of a row of pale spots towards the outer margin. 



Underside: lioth wings brown black, with the .spots and markings glosseil with 

 greenish blue. Anterior wings with a greenish blue streak in the cell and beyond it, 

 divided in the middle by two dark lines, the outer part of the streak sharply pointed 

 and extending some distance over the di.sc, three rows of spots beyond, three in the 

 inner row between the lowest .subcostal and the discoidal nervules, the two outer rows 

 extending along the outer margin to the posterior angle, the three uppermost 

 macular, the others elongate and more or less connected*; those furthest from the 

 outer margin rather broad, and edged internally with greeni.sh blue, the spots between 

 the median nervules, as on the upper.^ide, edged externally with greenish blue, the 



