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brown, faintly shot with purple, the costal and external 

 areas broadly paler, two series of pale brown spots parallel 

 to the outer margin, the first of the inner series white- 

 centred, costal border whitish ; wings below olive-brown, 

 the primaries with the median area suffused with piceous, 

 inner border whitish, a pinky-white subcostal spot and 

 three in an increasing oblique series above each of the 

 median veins, three or four scattered white dots in an 

 interrupted discal series parallel to the outer margin, and 

 six rather larger white dots in a submarginal series be- 

 tween the lower radial and the external angle ; secondaries 

 Avith several white dots at the base, a discal series of ten 

 white spots, the upper three rounded, in an oblique sub- 

 apical series, the remainder i-ather elongated and parallel 

 to the outer margin, nine white submarginal dots between 

 the radial and the anal angle : expanse of wings 3 inches 

 11 lines. 



This species may readily be distinguished from E. 

 splendens, ? , by the greater width and less brilliant purple 

 (not blue) shot of the primaries, also in the more numerous 

 submarginal spots of the primaries, the inner series being, 

 moreover, larger and lilac, whereas in S. splendens they 

 are pure white with pale violet borders ; the discoidal 

 spot not present on the undersurface, but an additional 

 spot beyond the cell, the other spots smaller ; no lilac 

 dots beyond the cell of secondaries. Before the present 

 collection arrived I supposed an example of S. Grantii 

 in the Museum Cabinet to be S. splendens, ?, thinking 

 that the differences in colour and marking were due to sex. 



My c ale sis lurida, n. sp. 



$. Allied to M. lalassis, but the basal half of the 

 primaries, both above and below, suffused Avith lurid ochra- 

 ceous ; the Avhite stripe of the undersurface reduced to a 

 slender brown-edged squamose white line : the third of 

 the four ocelli of primaries reduced in size, and only the 

 two first united : expanse of wings 1 inch 8 lines. 



Neptis cacharica, n. sp. 



9. Allied to N. adipala (P. Z. S. 1872, ph 32, fig. 8), 

 but of a more rufous-brown colour, the three oblique spots 

 beyond the cell more elongated or less Avidely separated, 

 the oblique series below the cell, near external angle, also 

 more elongated, the first two being only separated by 



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