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ovate; anterior margin very convex in the middle; exterior margin convex 

 and scalloped ; anal angle rounded ; with a glossy violescent-white costal band, and 

 an unglossed pale brown patch medially disposed from costal vein to below base of 

 subcostals ; precostal vein short, straight, emitted opposite to the subcostal, its tip 

 slightly furcate ; costal vein short, ending at fully one-third before the apex; sub- 

 costal branch emitted near to the costal, the radial at a nearly equal distance beyond ; 

 cell open, area very short and broad ; lower median from opposite base of radial ; 

 two upper medians emitted at an equal distance from lower and base of the cell ; 

 submedian straight ; internal vein recurved. Bodij slender ; palpi ascending, slender, 

 laxly clothed with very fine long hairs to the tip, third joint of nearly equal length 

 of the second, third very slender and pointed ; legs slender ; antenna3 with a 

 gradually formed, rather short club ; eyes naked. Sexes alike. Type. N. Aceris. 



CATERriLLAR. — Head larger than anterior segments, vertex with two short- 

 pointed spines, cheeks obtusely spmed ; third, fourth, sixth, and twelfth segments 

 armed with a subdorsal pair of stout fleshy spiny-processes, those on the fourth 

 segment longest. 



Chrysalis. — Rather short ; head-piece bluntly cleft in front, vertex pointed ; 

 thorax dorsally prominent and angular ; dorsum angular at base ; abdominal 

 segments slightly angled dorsally ; wing cases somewhat dilated laterally. (De- 

 scribed from S. N. Ward's original drawing of N. Varmona). 



Chaeacteristics of Various Species op Neptis. — In the species named Astola, 

 Adara, and Andamana, the lower discal series of four spots on the forewing are 

 placed in an inwardly-oblique regular row, as in Varmona, in which latter species 

 this regularity is very decided, and which is also apparent in the Chinese Euryiiome, 

 as well as in the quite distinct species named intermedia. This characteristic is 

 also observable in the Earo-pean Aceris. Whereas, in Nieobariea, in Ombalata, and 

 in the Javan species Matuta { = Leucothoe, Cramer (nee Linn.), the position of these 

 four spots is different, being disposed more like those in the Genus Andrapana, 

 the upper two being somewhat widely separated from the lower, the first of the 

 upper pair being longer, and it is placed comparatively more inward, the second 

 of the upper pair positioned obliquely downwards and outward, thus giving a visibly 

 wider separation of the ivfo pairs. This pecidiarity of the sequence of these spots, 

 will serve as a sure character in separating Leucothoe (Cram.) fi'om Varmona and 

 its allies. 



NEPTIS ASTOLA. 



Neptis Astola, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 1872, p. 560 (dry-season), de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., 



ii. p. 99 (1886). 

 Neptis Emodei, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 561, pi. 32, fig. 2 (wet-season). 



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