62 CATALOGUE OF DIURNAL LEPIDOPTRRA. 



Genus 16. KEPTIS, Fabricius, 

 IlUger's Magaz. vi. p. 282 (1808). 



* 1. Neptis Aceris. 



Papilio (N. P.) Aceris, Esper, " alis dentatis albo fasciatis, supra 

 nigris, subtus fulvis : habitat in Acere Europae, Asiae." Eur. Schmett. 

 i. pt. 2. pi. 82. fig. 1 (1777). 



Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 52. n. 514 (1777) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 245. 



n. 763 (1793). 



Europe (obtained 1841, from Herr J. J. Becker) ; China (presented 

 1845, by G. T. Lay, Esq.). B.M. 



Common in woods and gardens in the Himalayas, fond of moist 

 fern-covered rocks in glens (see Capt. Lang in Ent. Month. Mag. i. 

 p. 132). 



This is the P. Leucothoe of Donovan's ' China/ pi. 37. fig. 3 (1798). 



t 2. Neptis Lucilla. 



Papilio (N. P.) Lucilla, Denis, " alis dentatis supra fuscis, subtus 

 brunneis utrinque fascia maculari alba : habitat in Austria." Ca- 

 milla, Esper, Eur. Schmett. i. pt. 2. pi. 59. fig. 1 (1777). 



Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 55. n. 549 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 246. 

 n. 768 (1793). 



Germany. (Obtained 1843, from Herr J. J. Becker) B.M. 



There is a worn specimen of P. LuciUa, labelled " P. Coenobite, 

 Ernst," in the Banksian Collection in the British Museum. 



*- 3. Neptis Melicerta. 



Papilio (N. P.) melicerta, Drury, " alis dentatis, concoloribus, 

 atris, albo punctatis fasciaque communi alba, anteriarum interrupts : 

 habitat in Sierra Leon Africse." III. ii. pi. 19. figs. 3, 4 (1773). 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 508. n. 274 (1775) ; Sp. Ins. p. 96. 

 n. 423 (1781) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 244. n. 762 (1793). 



Fernando Po, West Africa. (Obtained 1851, from Mr. Stevens) 



B.M. 



" I have no doubt of its being a woodland insect." Trimen in 

 Rhop. Afr. Austr. p. 147. 



There is one specimen of P. Melicerta in the Banksian Collection 

 in the British Museum. 



4. Neptis Heliodore. 



Papilio (N. P.) Heliodore, Fabricius, " alis dentatis fulvis fasciis 

 tribus nigris : habitat in Siam." 



Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 52. n. 516 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 130. 



n. 401 (1793). 

 Moulmein, E. Indies. (Obtained 1843, from Archdeacon Clerk) B.M. 



