20(3 [Fcbiutuy, 



Neptis Nicoteles. 



Upper-side : $ . Dark brown. Anterior wing with an unbroken triangular 

 band from the base to the middle, two large spots beyond this — one near the costal 

 margin trifid, the other below this bifid, followed by four transverse linear bands ; a 

 bifid spot beyond the middle of the inner margin, and below this a sagittate spot, all 

 white. Posterior wing crossed before the middle by a broad band, followed by a 

 very indistinct band, and three sub-marginal linear bands, all white. 



Under-side : as above, except that the sub-marginal bands are much more dis- 

 tinct, and that the posterior wing has a sub-basal white band. 



Exp. Ifn incli. Sab. : Angola (Rogers). 



Differs from iV. Melicerta in not having either of the small white 

 spots which follow the basal band on the anterior wing of that species, 

 and in having the two larger spots unbroken by the nervures. 



ISTeptis Nebeodes. 



Upper-side : $ . Dark brown. Both wings crossed near the middle by a broad 

 band of white ; broken on the anterior wing into seven distinct spots, one of which 

 on the inner margin is bifid, followed on both wings by four linear bands (two 

 of which are broken into spots), all white. Anterior wing with a white band from 

 the base to the middle, indented, but not divided at its point ; two minute spots 

 near the costal margin above this. 



Under-side : as above, except that the sub-marginal bands are very much 

 broader, that there are three spots from the costal margin before its middle, that 

 there is a small white spot in the indentation of the basal baud, and that the pos- 

 terior wing has two transverse bauds near the base. 



Exp. 2to inch. Mah. : Angola (Eogers). 



Much like iV. Melicerta, but twice its size. 



Htpoltc^na Buxtoni. 



Upper-side : dark brown. Anterior wing with a large, central, white spot, 

 marked at the end of the cell by a black line, and beyond it by a band of the same 

 colour. Posterior wing with two tails ; the basal half grey-brown bordered out- 

 wardly with black, the outer half white, crossed by two sub-marginal bands of black ; 

 the lobe, and a spot at the base of the tails, black. 



Under-side : white. Anterior wing crossed at the end of the cell by a linear 

 spot, and beyond the middle by a linear band, both rufous, the outer margin also 

 rufous. Posterior wing crossed at the middle by a linear rufous band rounded, not 

 angular, near the anal angle ; the lobe black, irrorated with silvery-blue ; the spot 

 at the base of the tails crowned with orange. 



Exp. la'o inch. Sab. : South Africa (River Asuto, Buxton). 



For the species which I have named after him, and for several 

 species of Lycaenidcd which are new to me, I am indebted to Mr. 

 Buxton, who has made several excursions to South Africa for the 

 pleasure of seeing these things in life. 



Oatlands, Wcybridgc : January, 1874. 



