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are broad, and of a black colour. The dark edge 

 of the under wings is glossy at the sides, but faint 

 at the back angle. On the under side, the supe- 

 rior wings have a greenish colour like mother-of- 

 pearl, the middle tendons are bordered with dark 

 brown, but the tip and exterior margin of the 

 wing is grey. The lower wings are covered here 

 and there with a lustre resembling mother-of-pearl; 

 the tendons and several places of the external edge 

 are of a very pale grey brown colour. The colour 

 of the upper part of the body is properly black, 

 but covered with sea-green scales and hair ; be- 

 neath, on the contrary, of a white colour. Feelers 

 black J eyes brown ; feet white. 



XVII. NEPTIS ILLIGERA. 



A^. alls atris : anticis stria longittuVmaU maciilaque 

 rotunda^ imsticisque fascia transversa alhis. 



From Manilla. — Equal to the N. Melicerta and 

 Agathe in size, and similar in the marks. The 

 colour of the wings is black brown ; a white grey- 

 ish stripe extends from the root of tlie superior 

 wings to about tlie middle of tliem ; between the 

 internal end and the back angle of the wings is a 

 large roundish white spot ; three distinguished but 

 very small white dots lie in a row between the large 

 patch and the tip of the wing. Before and behind 

 these three there are two other white dots. On the 

 exterior edge run two very indistinct light brown 

 lines, of which the interior one is abbreviated. 



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