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third subcostal nervule emitted far beyond cell and ending at apex ; 

 upper and middle disco-cellular nervules both very short (the latter 

 inclined towards base), so that the radial nervules are closely approxi- 

 mated at their origin, — lower disco-cellular quite wanting ; discoidal 

 cell short. Hind-ivings : broad, subtruncate ; costa strongly arched, 

 especially in $ (where the very convex margin is superiorly polished 

 and subnacreous, and covers a corresponding similar surface on inner 

 margin of tore-wings ; hind-margin rather more sinuated than in fore- 

 wings ; anal angle not prominent ; inner margins but slightly convex, 

 forming a very incomplete and shallow groove, leaving hinder part of 

 abdomen exposed ; costal nervure usually terminating beyond middle, 

 but rarely extending to just before apex ; subcostal nervure branched 

 very near base ; upper disco-cellular nervule (forming base of radial 

 nervule) leaving second subcostal nervule very near its origin, — lower 

 disco-cellular quite obsolete ; discoidal cell extremely short ; internal 

 nervure usually rather short, ending about middle. Fore-legs of $ very 

 small and slender, scaly, sometimes with a very sparse external edging 

 of minute hairs; tibia much shorter than femur; tarsus exceedingly 

 short, blunt at extremity, — of $ considerably larger, almost without 

 hairs ; tarsi nearly as long as tibia, distinctly jointed, finely spinulose 

 near and at extremity. Middle- and Jdnd-legs rather short and stout, 

 scaly; tibias strongly spinose inferiorly, and with rather long terminal 

 spurs ; tarsi densely spinulose inferiorly. 



Abdomen elongate ; very slender in $. 



Larva. — Hecid large, bifid on its summit; on back of fourth seg- 

 ment a pair of elongate, divergent, erect fleshy processes, set with short 

 bristles ; similar but very much smaller pairs of short processes on back 

 of third, sixth, and twelfth segments, — the two latter pairs inclining 

 backward ; body rather attenuated posteriorly. 



Pupa. — Usually much curved abdominally, thick centrally ; head 

 deeply bifid ; wing-covers projecting widely on each side. 



(These characters of larva and pupa are taken from figures of 

 those of iV. Aceris, Lepech., in PI. V. of Horsfield and Moore's Catal. 

 Lep. Ins. in H.E.I.C. Museum (1857), and of those of N. Varmona 

 and N. Jumla, Moore, in The Lepidojjtcra of Ceylon, pi. xxviii. 

 1881.) 



Neptis is not nearly related to any other South-African genus, but 

 is in several respects intermediate between Athyma and Limenitis, 

 neither of which has any African representative, although both have 

 otherwise a very wide Old-World distribution, and Limenitis extends 

 also to North America. From Athyma, which it most nearly resembles 

 in colouring and pattern, Neptis is at once known by its far smaller 

 thorax; while it is distinguished from Limenitis by its much more 

 acute palpi ; shorter, less gradually-clavate antenna^ ; open discoidal 

 cell of the fore-wings ; much smaller fore-legs in the ^ ; and more 

 strongly-arched costa in the hind-wings. 



