]NYMPHALID^.-NYMPHALIN.E. 



NEPTI8. I. 



I.— NEPTIS EBLIS. Figs. 1, 2. 



Neptis Bblis, Butler, " Annals and Magazine of Natural History," ser. 5, 

 vol. 10, p. 43 (July, 1882). 



Upperside. Wings dull black, with a submarginal row of white spots, 

 bordered on both sides with long black spots, darker than the ground-colour, but 

 rather indistinct, especially on the anterior wings, where the spots are smaller 

 and rounder. The space around the spots is rather paler than the rest of the 

 wing, and on the posterior wings there is a third row of long black spots before 

 the hind margin. Costa of posterior wings brownish-grey. 



Underside lighter brown, anterior Avings with a white basal stripe in the 

 cell, followed by a large oblong spot ; posterior wings with two white spots at 

 the base of the costa, and at the base of the cell respectively. All the wings 

 with a submarginal row of white spots, larger than on the upperside, between 

 rows of long narrow brownish-white spots, from which they are separated by 

 indistinct black spots; the outer row of brownish-white spots is also edged 

 externally with black ones, but none of the black spots are clearly defined. 

 Inner margin of anterior wings broadly brownish-grey, becoming almost white 

 on the inner margin itself; posterior wings with the basal half of the space 

 between the branches of the front costal nervure paler than the rest of the 

 wing. 



Body black, front legs and sides of palpi white ; abdomen beneath with 

 grey central and lateral stripes. 



Hab. New Britain and Duke of York Island. 



In the Collections of tlie Brttish Museum (type), the Hon. "SV alter Rothschild, and Mr. H. 

 Grose Smith. 



Probably most nearly allied to N. Heliopolis, Peld. (Butler). 



The type (from New Britain) is rather darker than the spec-imeu figured. 



VOL. II., APEIL, 1895. 3 A 



