African Species of the Genus Neptis. 565 
H.-w. with white at base extending as a fine line to middle of 
costa, followed by a white band incompletely divided into two. 
Discal band as above followed by a brownish white line which curves 
round at 6 to meet costal line. Submarginal lines well developed, 
especially the innermost, which forms a band some 2°5 to 3 mm. 
wide broken only by the nervules. 
Judged both by the pattern and the structure of the male 
armature lermannz is very closely allied to jamesont. From 
the few examples I have seen the ground-colour is rather 
browner, and the fore-wing cell mark is without the well- 
developed distal patch of blue-grey scales. The species 
is extremely rare in collections. 
The six foregoing species all have the male clasper of a 
form characterised by a single pointed projection (in jordani 
there is an additional inwardly directed point not visible 
in the figure). The external patterns do not support the 
view that these species are more closely allied than others 
of the genus. Indeed, as we shall see, there are other species 
whose patterns appear to be much more closely allied to 
that of agatha, but of which the male armatures are of a 
totally different form. 
20, NEPTIS SEELDRAYERSI. Pl. XXI, fig. 7; 
Pl. XXYV, figs. 5, 6. 
Auriv., Ent. Nachr., 21, p. 379 (1895); Rhop. Aeth., 
p. 167, pl. 1, f. 7 (1898); Auriv., in Seitz, Macrolep., p. 200, 
pl. 48d (1913); Holl., Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 161 
(1920). 
Kumasi to MomBasa. 
Expanse 45-60 mm. Sepia black with white markings. F.-w. © 
with three white spots in cell and from one to five beyond it. An 
inner-marginal patch formed by two spots in la and 1d, usually 
coalescent, or at most only divided by the nervule. A discal band 
of white spots in 2 to 6 and 9. This band may be quite continuous, 
with the nervules only just visible, or it may be distinctly separated 
into spots, distally somewhat divergent. The tendency to separa- 
tion is greatest on nervule 4, but the spot in 4, though it may be 
narrow, is not appreciably reduced in length (differing in this respect 
from rogersi and barnsi). Distal to the discal band and following 
its contour a pale line well marked or faint, not thrown into distinct 
arches between the nervules. Three submarginal lines, the first 
