NYMPHALID^.-NYMPHALIN^. 



NEPTIS. V. 



XV.— NEPTIS MOETIFACIES. i . Figs. 1, 2. 



Nejytis Mortifacies, Butl., " Transactions Entom. Society," p. 5 (1875). 



Exp. 2 inches 5 lines. 



" Wings above black-brown, fringe white-spotted ; primaries with three 

 points in the cell, two placed obliquely beyond the cell, a subcostal point, and 

 two subapical discal spots (placed obliquely), a large bifid spot (cut by the 

 second median branch) on disc, an elongate bifid spot on inner margin, 

 and an irregular submarginal series of small spots, white ; the large discal and 

 the internal spots narrowly edged with dull lilacine scales ; secondaries with a 

 broad central subquadrate white band, narrowly edged externally with dull 

 lilacine ; six mim;te discal white points ; body dark brown ; wings below 

 olivaceous brown, all the white markings much larger than above ; discoidal 

 area of primaries reddish-brown, internal area pale brown ; a basal subcostal 

 white streak ; secondaries with a dirty-white sub-basal band ; body creamy- 

 whitish." 



Hab. Queensland. 



In the Collection of the British Museum, type (from which the figure in the Plate has been 

 taken), and others. 



" Allied to N. Venilia, Linn, and N. lUigera, Eseh. ; the large discal spot of primaries 

 directed inwards, as in the latter species ; the band of secondaries as broad as in the broadest 

 examples of N. Agatha, Cram." 



XVI.— NEPTIS CYAXIFEEA. ^ . Figs. 3, 4. 



Neptis Cijanifcra, Butl., " Annals Nat. Hist.," Series 5, Vol. I., p. 481 (1878). 

 Exp. 2 inches. 



" Wings above black, bluish towards the base ; primaries with a semi- 

 circular blue patch about the middle of the inner margin, and a round white 



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