Explanation of Plate XXIX. 



Neptis woodwardi more closely mimetic of Amauris albimandata 

 in a locality to the E. of the Rift Valley, where this Danaine is 

 dominant, than by the N.E. shores of the Victoria Nyanza, far to the 

 W. of the Valley. Resemblances between British East African 

 Pierinx captured at the same place and time. The specimens are in 

 tlie Hope Department, Oxford University Museum. 



All the figures are very slightly under the natural size. 

 Fia. 1. Neptis woodwardi, (^ : Weithaga, about 6000 ft,, 15 miles 

 W. of Fort Hall, Kikuyu country : May 10, 1907. In 

 the breadtli of the ochreous hind-wing band and the size 

 of the white fore-wing spots the pattern of the male, E. 

 of the Rift Valley, is seen to be as closely mimetic of 

 Amauris albimaculata (see Plate XXVIII, fig. 1) as ia 

 the pattern of the female from further W. (see Fig. 4). 

 Fig. 2. Neptis woodtvardi, 5 : captured August 11, 1906, at the 

 same locality as the specimen shown in Fig. 1. The 

 pattern of the Amauris is more closely mimicked by the 

 female Neptis than by the male from the same locality, 

 shown in Fig. 1, 

 Fig. 3. Neptis woodwardi, S'- Tiriki Hills, 5100 ft., 20 miles N. 

 of Kisumu, N.E. shore of Victoria Nyanza : captured 

 February 26, 1903, by C. A. "Wiggins. The mimetic 

 features are seen to be greatly reduced in the male from 

 a locality far W. of the Rift Valley. 

 Fig. 4. Neptis woodivardi, ? : captured by C. A. Wiggins, February 

 27, 1903, at the same locality as the specimen shown in 

 Fig. 3. The mimetic appearance of the western female 

 is seen to be about equal to that of the more eastern male 

 (Fig. 1). 

 Fig. 5. Mylothris agathina, (^ , under surface : Rabai, about 700 ft., 

 14 miles N.W. of Mombasa : June 23, 1906. The orange 

 flush at the base of the fore- wings extends onto the costal 

 region of the base of the hind, although this feature is 

 indistinctly shown in the figure. 

 Fig. (j. Belenois thysa, ?, under surface : captured at the same time 

 and place as the model shown in Fig. 5. The orange 

 flush at the base of the fore-wings is seen to be larger, of 

 a deeper tint, and more sharply defined than in the model 

 Mylothris (Fig. 5). It extends on to the costal border of 

 il c hind-wings us in the latter. 



