African Species of the Genus Neptis. 563 
H.-w. Base ground-colour with a white costal mark about 
4 mm. long, followed by two curved white bands which coalesce 
near -origin of 6. Discal band as above followed by broken 
whitish line which curls inwards in area 6 and follows costa for some 
distance. Three submarginal lines as above, but the innermost 
widened out into a band of large subquadrate spots, the second about 
1 mm. wide, and the third very fine, all quite white. 
The most distinctive feature of this species is the indenta- 
tion of the white cell mark, and especially the white dot 
therein on the underside. Perhaps this character alone is 
sufficient to distinguish it from other described species. 
18. Nepris JAaMEsoni. PI. XXI, fig.5; Pl. XXIV, fig. 16. 
Godm., Story of the Relief Expedt., p. 436 (1891); 
Auriv., Ent. Tidskr., 15, p. 283 (1894); Rhop. Aeth., 
p. 169 (1898); in Seitz, Macrolep., p. 202, pl. 48f (1913). 
Lagos... CAMEROON. ConGo REGION. 
Expanse 55-65 mm. Sepia black with white and blue-grey mark- 
ings. F.-w. with a large white mark in cell pointed at base and wide 
at end of cell, beyond which is a terminal patch of pale blue grey 
(sometimes separated). The extreme base of the white mark and 
as far as origin of nervule 2, also blue grey. A large white inner- 
marginal mark consisting of two spots in la and 1b, about 6 mm. 
long and slightly separated distally. A subtriangular mark in 2 
rather distally placed and separated, especially outwardly, from 
a longer quadrate spot in 3. In 4 a small distal triangular spot, 
and a subapical series of three elongated spots distally divergent 
in 5, 6, and 9. Beyond this discal series a delicate line of whitish 
or blue-grey scales, interrupted at nervules, followed by two similar 
submarginal lines, the first the more distinct. Fringes of both 
wings white between the nervules. 
H.-w. with white discal band about 6 mm. wide narrowing 
where it ends in area 6. Near it, distally, a pale line, and 
beyond it two, sometimes three submarginal lines, the first often 
distinctly white, the others very narrow and sometimes rather 
indistinct. - 
Underside. Ground-colour only little paler than above. F.-w. 
white at base on costa. Cell with a large pyriform mark cut off 
rather suddenly at cell end, and immediately followed by a white 
transverse mark, and a second more or less crescentic spot at base 
of area 4. Two or three small streaks near costa above end of cell. 
Other white marks as above but more accentuated. No blue-grey 
scales. First line beyond discal spots well marked but less pure 
white than the rest. An additional fine line at margin. 
