1920] Holland, Lepidoptera of the Congo 163 



(171) 10. Neptis strigata Aiirivilliiis 



Neptis strigata Aurivillius, 1894, Ent. Tidskr., XV, p. 284, fig. 10; 1913, Seitz, 

 Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 201, PI. XLviiie. 



There are five specimens of this species, three males and two females, 

 all taken at Medje, except one of the females which was caught at Pawa 

 in October. The dates of capture at Medje cover the months of April, 

 July, August, and September. One of the specimens agrees so closely 

 with the figure given by Aurivillius in the ' Gross-Schmetterhnge ' 

 {loc. cit.) that it might have served the artist as his model. The rest do 

 not have the longitudinal streak in the cell of the fore wings divided 

 into two parts, but at the point where this division is shown in the figure 

 given by Aurivillius there is a small black spot which, by becoming 

 only a little larger, would cause the band to be interrupted as shown by 

 the author of the species. We have this insect also from Cameroon and 

 the Ogove Valley. 



(172) 11. Neptis biafra Ward 



Plate VIII, Figure 3, 9 

 Neptis biafra Wahd, 1871, Ent. Mo. Mag., VIII, p. 121; 1874, Afr. Lep., p. 12, Pi 

 IX, figs. 1, 2. Holland, 1892, Ent. News, III, PL ix, fig. 10, d'. 



The collection contains one female caught at Medje, June 30, 

 1910. In this specimen the two small spots at the basal end of the cell 

 of the fore wing coalesce, while the larger spot at the end of the cell re- 

 mains free. We have some fine specimens of the male in our collections 

 gathered for us in Cameroon and on the Ogove River. It is one of the 

 most beautiful of the species in the genus and is related to N. strigata 

 but is larger and more strikingly marked. I strongly suspect that my 

 valued friend, Dr. Aurivillius, was in some doubt as to the identification 

 of N. biafra, both when he queried the identity of my figure of the male 

 with his A^. strigata, as he does in the 'Rhopalocera ^Ethiopica,' and 

 when in the ' Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde' he places N. biafra in 

 another group, separate from strigata, to which it is allied, and gives a 

 description, which is not at all conformed to the description given by 

 the author of the species. I wish to say that the figure of N. biafra 

 given by me in the Entomological News is that of a specimen which con- 

 forms absolutely to the description of Ward, and that the insect, while 

 not far removed from N. strigata, is totally distinct. With a good series 

 of both species before me for comparison, I am able to affirm this positively. 



(173) 12. Neptis nicoteles Hewitson 



Neptis nicoteles Hewitson, 1874, Ent. Mo. Mag., X, p. 206. Holland, 1892, Ent. 

 News, III, PI. IX, fig. 8. 



One male, lacking head and antennae, taken at Medje, July 13, 1910. 



