African Species of the Genus Neptis. 549 
vular markings, followed again by two pale lines variable and 
sometimes white. 
On underside the f.-w. is deep yellow at base and for some distance 
along the costa, the-ground-colour pale sepia brown and the white 
markings of the upperside are repeated but more distinctly. An 
irregular row of blackish spots beyond the discal white markings. 
The submarginal white lines, of which there are three, are thickened, 
and separated only by dark internervular streaks, though more or 
less completely interrupted in area 3. 
H.-w. base yellowish with black spots. The discal band bordered 
by small internervular black spots followed by a row of larger 
rounded ones on a yellowish ground, followed again by two narrow 
black lines on a pale ground. 
The male has an inner-marginal pearly white area on f.-w. extending 
to nervule 2. 
metella gratilla. 
The Madagascar form seems only to be distinguished by 
larger white markings, but examples before me from near 
Lagos are equally remarkable in this respect. 
If the numbers received in general collections are of any 
proportional value metella would seem to be comparatively 
rare. The species cannot well be mistaken for any other 
with its combination of white streaked cell and h.-w. base 
beneath yellowish, spotted with black. 
If we assume the structure of the male armature to be of 
_ value in estimating affinities, all the foregoing species would 
be regarded as closely allied members of an intergeneric 
group. They are more easily recognised by their outward 
characteristics than by the genitalia, which, though all 
very distinct from those of the rest of the genus, present 
but small constant differences iter se. 
7. NEPTIS NEMETES. -Pl. XX, fig. 7. 
Hew., Exot. Butt., Neptis, pl. 1, f. 1, 2 (1868); Holl., 
Ent. News, 3, pl. 9, f. 4 (1892); Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 
38, p. 186 (1893); Auriv., Rhop. Aeth., p. 167 (1898); 
Neave, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., p. 33 (1910); Auriv., in 
Seitz, Macrolep., p. 200, pl. 48¢ (1913); Holl., Bull. Am. 
Mus. Nat. Hist., 160 (1920). 
S. LEonE to UGANDA. 
nemetes obtusa. 
Roth. & Jord., Novit. Zool., p. 536 (1903). 
