NYMPHiLID^. NYMPHALIN.E. — NEPTIS. 



VI.— NEPTIS MDIETICA. ?. Figs. 3, 4. 



Xfpti!< ^fiiiutua. H. Grose-Smith, " Novitates Zoologicie," Vol. II.. p. 78 

 (1895). 



Exp. s . 2^ inches ; ? . 2] inches. 



-l/(i/t'. Upperside OTe'S'ish -brown. Anterior wiuirs with a curved baud of 

 eight white spots across the disc beyond the middle : the first, near the costal 

 margin, linear ; the second, the largest, situate farthest from the outer margin ; 

 tlie third, fifth, and sixth about equal in size ; the fourth, which is situate 

 between the lowest discoidal and uppermost medijin nervules, consisting of a 

 short streak ; the seventh is extended inwardly at its lower end ; the eighth is 

 oviU, imd situate on the inner margin near the posterior angle. Outside the 

 spots are three rows of brownish-white bars between the veins, the middle bar 

 the broadest ; cilia between the veins naiTowly white. Posterior wings with the 

 space from the costal margin to near the discoidal nervule paler sericeous ; the 

 disc is crossed a little beyond the middle by a row of white spots between the 

 veins, those from the subcostal to the lowest mediiui nervules large and conical, 

 the others indistinct and becoming obsolete ; close outside this row is another 

 row of broad whitish-brown bars, divided by the brown veins, traversed a little 

 above their middle by indistinct brown lines ; beyond these is a third row of 

 narrower brownish-white bars, followed, a little before the outer margin, by a 

 series of indistinct gi-ey streaks. 



Underside rufous brown, with the spots and bars as on the upper- 

 side ; the cell of the anterior wings is crossed at its extremity by an indistinct 

 paler brown streak. 



The female resembles the male, but is larger and rather paler. 



Hab. Dili (Doherty). 



In the Collections of the Hon. Walter Eothsehild and Mr. H. Grose-Smith. 

 This sjiecies mimics Aiidarena Oro^e. Boisd. 



VII.— NEPTIS GRACILIS, i. Figs. 5, 0. 

 Athiima Gracilis, Kirsch, " Proceedings of Zoological Society," p. "276 (1885). 

 Niptis Dohirtiji. H. Grose-Smith, " Novitates Zoologies?,"* Vol. II.. p. 79 

 (1895). 



Exp. If inches. 



