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3. NEPTIS MAYOTTENSIS. PI. XX, fig.3; Pl. XXIV, fig. 3. 
Oberth., Etud. d’Ent., 13, p. 14, pl. 2, f. 10a, 10b (1890) ; 
Auriv., Rhop. Aeth., p. 166 (1898); Poulton, Proc. Ent. 
Soc. Lond., p. xxxv (1908); Auriv., in Seitz, Macrolep., 
p. 199, pl. 48¢ (1913). 
Mayotte I, 
Expanse about 835 mm. Ground-colour dark umber. F.-w. with 
three white dots in cell and three beyond. A submarginal border 
of two very slightly darker lines with paler marks between them 
which are resolved into distinct white dots towards the apex. A deep 
yellow inner-marginal patch in la and 16 continuous with the h.-w. 
discal band. A large patch of deep yellow in 2 and 3, and three 
subapical spots of same colour in 5, 6, and 8, the last very small. 
H.-w. with a broad dark yellow discal band 4 mm. wide and of regular 
outline. A submarginal border of two lines darker than ground- 
colour, the inner line twice. the width of the outer. 
Underside. Ground-colour paler. F.-w. large spots only slightly 
yellow, and the white dots accentuated. There are also two yellow- 
ish marks in cell and a transverse one at end of same. Traces of a 
second submarginal series of white dots beyond those which are also 
visible above. H.-w. irregularly marked in basal area with ill- 
defined whitish and yellowish spots, the discal band pinkish white and 
the space between it and hind margin occupied by a border consisting 
of internervular patches of dark brown shaded to reddish, each 
patch bounded proximally by a curved, and distally by a straight 
whitish line. Between the latter and margin a third very fine white 
line. The male has a pearly opalescent area in f.-w. reaching to 
nervule 2. 
The female is paler and all the white dots more accentuated on 
both surfaces, so that on the upperside there is a complete sub- 
marginal series of these. In the h.-w. the discal band is broader. 
The male clasper except for its smaller size is very like that of 
dumetorum. 
4. Nepris comorARuM. PI. XX, fig. 4; Pl. XXIV, fig. 4. 
Oberth., Etud. d’Ent., 13, p. 14, pl. 2, f. 9a, 9b (1890); 
Auriv., Rhop. Aeth., p. 166 (1898); Poulton, Proc. Ent. 
Soc. Lond., p. xxxv (1908); Auriv., in Seitz, Macrolep., 
p. 199, pl. 48a (1913). 
