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(169) 8. Neptis continuata Holland 



Neptis biafra var. continuata Holland, 1892, Ent. News, III, PL ix, fig. 9. 



Aurivillius in the 'Rhopalocera /Ethiopica' says that this is, like 

 the preceding, an aberration of A', mjsiades Hewitson. I admit that I 

 was in error in making it a varietal form of N. biafra Ward, which is a 

 different insect, though there are resemblances on the under side of the 

 wings which led me to take the step. I have a good series of this thing 

 from various localities, many more than I had when I first named the 

 insect. As it is every now and then being received from different parts 

 of the hot lands of Africa and is quite constant and recognizable, I am 

 inclined to apply the remarks which I made under the preceding 

 species and let the matter stand until we shall receive more light. It is 

 not conspecific with N. biafra Ward, as I have already said. The figure 

 of the latter insect, which I gave on the same plate in the Entomological 

 News, is that of a typical N. biafra, cf , and it does not take much effort 

 to see the great difference between the two insects. Twenty-six years 

 of study since I wrote that article on the genus Neptis has broadened my 

 knowledge of the subject. 



Theie are four examples of this form, three of which were taken at 

 Medje in July and August, the fourth at Munie Katoto, September 

 1909. 



(170) 9. Neptis nicomedes Hewitson 



Neptis nicomedes Hewitson, 1874, Ent. Mo. Mag., X, p. 205. Kirby, 1894, Handbook 

 Lep., I, p. 147, PI. XX, fig. .3. 



I refer to this species four specimens which agree both with the 

 description and the figure cited above, except that all of them have the 

 mesial band of the primaries slightly inangulated on its inner margin 

 at vein 4, thus resembhng the variety quintilla Mabille.^ The only 

 difference which I am able to affirm definitely between typical nicomedes 

 and quintilla is the fact that in the latter the longitudinal streak in the 

 cell of the fore wing is reduced and obsolete basad and persists merely 

 as a short bar or curved line near the end of the cell. I have good speci- 

 mens of A^. quintilla which were collected in Cameroon, before me as I 

 write, and quite agree with Dr. Aurivillius in regarding the two forms as 

 merely varietal. 



The specimens upon which I am reporting were taken at IMedje, 

 one in June, one in Jul}', and two in August. There are two males and 

 two females. 



'Kirby's figure is poorly executed and may not be true to type. 



