NTMPHALID^ . — NYMPHALIN^ . — NEPTIS. 1 1 



XII.— NEPTIS CONNEXA. i . Figs. 8, 9. 



Xeptis Connexa. 



Exp. 2 inches. 



Male. Upperside. Anterior wings differ from Xeptis Eonensis in having 

 two large discal white spots between the median nervules, and four small spots, 

 in pairs, towards the apex. Posterior wings differ fi-om that species in the very 

 much greater width of the white band, which covers the whole of the central 

 area. 



Underside. On the anterior wings the inner of the two submarginal rows 

 of spots is represented by two spots only towards the apex, and two bars 

 between the median nervules nearly contiguous mth the discal spots between 

 those veins, and the outer of the submarginal rows is represented by four 

 small white spots only, towards the apex. On the posterior wings the spots in 

 the inner of the two submarginal rows are larger and more lunular than in 

 A'. Eonensis. 



Hab. Ke Islands (Wallace). 



In Mr. Grose-Smith's Collection, from the Wilson-Saunders Collection. 



This species is considerably smaller than N. Eonensis and N. Nedens, de Niccville, 

 described by that gentleman also from K6 Islands, from which it differs in having a much wider 

 discal band on the posterior wings, and on the underside in the very much less conspicuous sub- 

 marginal rows of spots on both wings. 



