IG NYMPH ALID.E. NYMPHALIN.E. NEPTIS. 



spot above it, surrounrled by blue scales, upon the first median interspace, a 

 white subcostal dot just beyond the cell ; two subapical white discal spots placed 

 obliquely, and a submarginal series of six white or whitish small spots ; 

 secondaries crossed before the middle by an irregular quinquefid white stripe 

 enclosed in a rather broad blue belt ; three or four bluish dots parallel to the 

 outer margin. 



Wings below chocolate-brown ; primaries below with all the spots white, 

 all, excepting those of the submarginal series (w^hich contains eight small spots), 

 pearly ; an additional spot near the end of the cell ; secondaries with the base 

 broadly sordid white, crossed by a blackish bar ; a pearly-white belt before the 

 middle of the wing ; a submarginal series of pinky-white spots and a marginal 

 series of longitudinal pinky-white dashes." 



Hab. Port Moresby (type) and elsewhere in British New Guinea. 



In the Collections of the British Museum, Mr. Grose-Smith, and others. 

 "Allied to N. Brebissonii, N. Moriifacies, and N. Lactaria." 



XVII.— KEPTIS ASTR.EA. $ . Figs. 5, 6. 



Athijma Astnva, Buth, "Annals Nat. Hist.," Series 3, Vol. XVII., p. 99 

 (1866). 



Exp. 2| inches. 



Male. " Upperside brownish-black ; front wings with two obliquely-placed 

 large subapical white spots ; two larger spots on the middle of the disc ; an 

 elongate white spot with a small streak above it on the interior margin, a sul)- 

 marginal row of small white spots ; a second outer very indistinct row, pale 

 brown ; hind wings with a broad white transverse band from beyond the middle 

 of the interior to the middle of the abdominal margin ; three dark brown 

 marginal bands increasing in width towards the middle of the wing. 



" Underside brown, glossed with pink ; front wings — inner margin pale 

 olive-brown ; base of costal margin orange ; a narrow discoidal streak 

 indistinctly divided in its centre and broadly near its outer termination ; spots 

 on the disc as above, but larger ; outer margin with four submarginal white 

 bands, the tliird from the margin broad, and almost divided into spots at the 

 nervures ; hind wings — base of costal margin white ; an indistinct white streak 

 from the base to near the middle of the costal nervure ; central band as above, 



