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This species is readily distinguished from N. Agatha by its smaller size, 

 browner ground-colour, much broken and macular white marking of fore-wing, 

 and totally different under-side colouring. It is a very close ally of N. Saclava, 

 Boisd., from Madagascar; but, as Hopffer {loc. cit.) points out,^ appears to 

 differ in having three white dots just beyond discoidal cell of fore-wing, and 

 the row of fuscous spots common to both wings followed by three rows of 

 whitish lunules ; Saclava wanting the former altogether, and instead of the 

 latter, possessing two or three rows of blackish lunules separated (in the fore- 

 wing only) by a thin white line. 



Another near ally is the West-African N. Nemates, Hewits. {Exot. Butt., 

 1868, iv. pi. 25, f, I, 2), which differs from Marpessa in having the large 

 white spot on median nervules of fore-wings and the inner-marginal spot 

 united and much widened, so as to form a short irregular band ; while on the 

 under side the tint of the ground-colour is much duller and greyer, and there 

 are no white spots in or just beyond discoidal cell. 



I met this butterfly not uncommonly at Port Natal in February, March, 

 and April 1867. Its habits are quite like those of its congener, N. Agatha ; it 

 frequents wooded spots, and flits slowly about trees and shrubs, often settling 

 upon the leaves. 



Localities of Ncptis Marpessa. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts. — Port Alfred, Kowie River {J. H. Randall). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo Eiver (/. //. Boivker). 



E. Natal. — D'Urban. " Lower Umkomazi." — J. H. Bowker. 



F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {Colonel H. Tower). 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren90 Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 



11. Other African Eegions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — "Angola {J. J. Monteiro).''' — Driice. " Chin- 



choxo {Fallxensteiu)." — Dewitz. 

 h. Eastern Coast. — "Zambesi: Tette." — Hopffer. 



B. North Tropical. 



h. Eastern Coast. — "Abyssinia: Atbara," — Butler. 



89. (3.) Neptis Goochii.Trimen. 



Plate V. fig. 6 ( (J ). 

 Neptis Goochii, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 336. 



UxjJ. al., I in. 4I lin. — i in. 9 lin. 



Fuscous, with jjure-white hands and spots. Fore-wing : a longi- 

 tudinal white bar, divided transversely about its middle, occupying 

 lower half of discoidal cell ; a small spot immediately beyond ex- 

 tremity of cell ; subapical costal bar broad, even, abruptly truncate 

 on radial nervule ; close to outer extremity of this bar a small spot, 



^ I have compared Boisduval's description and Chenu's figure of N. Saclava, but the 

 only note I have of the Madagascar specimens in Mr. Hevvitson's collection (in the year 1867) 

 is that the hand of the hind-wings teas broader than in the Natalian butterfly then associated 

 with them. 



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