African Species of the Genus Neptis. 547 
Seitz, l. c. (1913); Holl., Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 160 
(1920). 
= nemeles var. pasteurt. Snellen, Tijdschr. Ent., xxv, 
p. 221 (1882). 
AFRICA south of Sahara. 
saclava saclava. 
Expanse about 45 mm. Ground-colour dark sepia. Three white 
dots in cell and three or four beyond it. An inner marginal spot in 
la and 16 which may or may not be contiguous with a large white 
patch in 2 and 3. In area 4a a small distally placed white dot 
followed anteriorly by three white spots in 5, 6, and 8. These are 
separated from each other by the ground-colour, especially the first 
two, and the third on the costa is very small. The hind-marginal 
border consists of two fine whitish lines and sometimes a third close 
to the larger white marks, much interrupted at the nervules and 
broken into small spots. Between these and the large discal spots 
is a row of darker internervular markings sometimes tipped with 
white scales proximally. On h.-w. a broad white discal band about 
4-5 mm. wide of fairly even outline but slightly, though not very 
markedly, projecting in area 5. Following the discal band there is a 
row of rather large more or less rounded dark internervular markings, 
followed again by two lines of equally dark but much narrower 
marks. } 
Underside. The white markings are repeated but in f.-w. the 
subapical patch is continued right to the costa by the addition of 
linear marks in areas 9 and 10, and these marks are lemon yellow. 
The ground-colour is variable and blotchy, reddish in cell and along 
the nervures, darker above central patch to costa, and at apex and 
between nervules 3 and 4. Externally adjacent to white markings 
is a row of dark spots, interrupted in area 5. On h.-w. the base is 
brownish with irregular pale marks. Distal to the discal band a row 
of dark internervular spots, proximally edged with white, of which 
those in 3 and 4 are largest. Beyond these, two rows of transverse 
internervular dark markings, also edged with white. 
Male beneath has a pearly inner marginal area in f.-w. extending 
to nervule 2. The female also has a similar area, but of much smaller 
extent and generally hidden in average setting. 
saclava marpessa. 
This is the mainland form and is generally supposed to 
be distinguished by its narrower white markings, but I 
have before me W. African examples with the h.-w. discal 
