272 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — "Angola: Loanda (i?. Meldula)." — A. G. Butler. 



"Congo: Kinsembo (H. Ansell)." — A. G. Butler. "Chinchoxo 

 (Falkenstem)." — Dewitz. 



b. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi [Rev. H. Roivley). — Coll. Hope, Oxon. 



" Querimba." — Hopffer. " Zanzibar {Rafray)." — Oberthiir. 

 hi. Interior. — ]\Iashunaland and Zunibo, Zambesi {F. C. Selous). 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Cape Coast Castle {E. BourJie). Ashanti. — Coll. 



Hope, Oxon. Sierra Leone. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 h. Eastern Coast.— " Abyssinia : Shoa {Antinori)" — Oberthiir. 



88. (2.) Neptis Marpessa, Hopffer. 



Neptis Marpessa, HopflF., Monatsb, K. Ak. Wiss. Berl., 1855, p. 640, n. 8; 



and Peters' Reise nach Mossamb., Ins., p. 383, t. xxiv. li'. 9, 10 



(1862). 

 Athy lua Sadava, Tvim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 148, n. 88(1862); and 



(Neptis S.) ii. p. 338 (1866). 



JExp. al, I in. 7^ lin. — 2 in. 



Broivnish-blach, with white hands and spots. Fore-ioing : on costa 

 beyond middle, not far from apes, three white spots of moderate size, 

 forming a short band inclining towards hind-margin ; below them, 

 between first and third median nervules, a large, somewhat quadrate, 

 white spot, divided almost equally by the second median nervule ; 

 immediately below the latter marking, and a little nearer base, is a 

 semicircular, moderately-sized, white marking on inner margin ; in 

 discoidal cell three white dots ; at its extremity a dark-margined, pale, 

 transverse streak ; just heyond extremity, three white dots ; bordering 

 hind-margin, three parallel rows of whitish lunules, the outer row 

 very indistinct or even obsolete ; between the innermost of these 

 lunular rows and the large white spots is a row of spots darker than 

 the ground-colour ; close to the outer edge of the white spots are a 

 few minute, white, thin spots, two or three of which are situate 

 hetween the large white markings. Hind-iving : a compact rather 

 narrow white band, almost straight on its inner edge, crosses about 

 middle, from costa to inner margin, and is continuous of the semi- 

 circular marking on inner margin oi fore-vAng ; row of darker spots as 

 in fore-wing, but more distinct ; rows of lunular marks almost obsolete. 

 Under side. — Palc-ochreous, varied ivith ferruginons-bronm ; white bands 

 and spots as on upper side. Forc-tving : costa at base ochreous-white ; 

 four whitish-brown margined spots in discoidal cell, and a streak 

 similarly coloured at its extremity ; portion around large white spots 

 ferruginous-brown, with blackish rays beticcen nervules; row of darker 

 spots, beyond white ones, blackish ; between the rows of white lunules 

 bordering hind- margin are parallel dark-brown streaks. Hind-iving : 

 basal portion pale-whitish ochreous, varied with ferruginous-brown striae 

 and marks, darker macular row, and lunular lines, as in fore-wing. 



