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African Species of the Genus Neptis. 585 
Zool. Soc., p. 34 (1910); Auriv., in Seitz, Macrolep., p. 201 
(1913). | 
Toco to UGANDA. 
nysiades nysiades. 
Examples precisely agreeing with Hewitson’s type are rare. In 
it there is a small streak and a dot in f.-w. cell, an inner-marginal 
patch of which the proximal edge is continuous with that of the 
h.-w. discal band. Two short separated subquadrate spots in 2 and 
3, and a subapical series of four in 4, 5, 6, and 9, slightly separated 
by the nervules, followed by the usual pale discal and submarginal 
lines, the latter not interrupted in area 3. 
Beneath the f:-w. has a basal streak followed by two diagonal 
streaks, and the h.-w. has a white costal mark at base, followed 
by two less distinct whitish lines. All pale discal and submarginal 
lines more distinct than above. Expanse about 40-50 mm. 
From this typical form we pass to a modification of much 
more frequent occurrence (Pl. XXIII, fig. 5) very closely 
resembling the figure in Seitz quoted above, pl. 48e. This 
form may be recognised by the much larger discal spots 
in f.-w., especially the subapical series which are very long 
(about 8 mm. in area 4) and distally divergent. The pale 
lines often well marked and white, the first of the sub- 
marginal series developed into spots towards apex. The 
f.-w. cell marks are characteristic, consisting of a spot 
near base, followed by a short and then a longer diagonal 
stripe. On the underside the first two marks are jomed 
to form a subcostal line having a small projection about the 
middle of its length and bent sharply downwards and out- 
wards at its end. This followed by a well-marked diagonal 
stripe at cell end. This form is very like strigata except 
for the different arrangement of cell marks. (Though for 
the present I have kept strigata separate it 1s probably only 
another form of nysiades.) 
The form claret differs in having the subapical series of 
f.-w. spots ending in a faint streak just beyond nervule 
6 on upperside, thus leaving a rather conspicuous area of 
ground-colour between the subapical series and the costa. 
The subapical spots are but little separated, and the ner 
marginal patch is basally prolonged, so that its proximal 
edge is not continuous with that of the h.-w. discal band. 
There are no white marks in f.-w. cell above. 
From this we pass through intermediate forms in which 
the f.-w. spots become less and less separated to the type 
