N YMPHALIDiE. 

 NEPTIS. 



NEPTIS NEMETES. 1, 2. 



Upperside. Female, dark brown. Both wings with three submarginal bands 

 and lunules on the fringe, white. Anterior wing with a trifid short band before the 

 apex, a small spot below this, and a quadrifid band from the first branch of the median 

 nervure to the inner margin, white, followed by an irregular broken band of indistinct 

 white spots. Posterior wing crossed before the middle by a broad band of white, 

 followed by a band of indistinct pale brown spots. 



Underside as above, except that the white bands are broader, that the central 

 band of the posterior wing is followed by a series of dark brown spots, and that there 

 are two bands of white at the base of both wings. 



Exp. 2yo inch. Hab. Sierra Leone. 



Iu the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



NEPTIS NYSIADES. 3, 4. 



Upperside. Male, dark brown. Both wings crossed at the middle by a band 

 of white broken into four spots on the anterior wing, the first spot large and quadrifid, 

 the second and third isolated, the fourth on the inner margin bifid : both crossed 

 beyond this by an indistinct band, white on the anterior wing, pale brown on the 

 posterior wing : both with three submarginal bands, and lunules on the fringe, white. 

 Anterior wing with two small spots in the cell and a linear subapical spot, white. 



Underside as above, except that the white bands are much more distinct ; that 

 there are three spots in the cell of the anterior wing, and that the base of the costal 

 margin of the posterior wing and two sub-basal bands are white. 



Female, like the male, except that the quadrifid spot of the anterior wing is much 

 more deeply cleft by the nervures. 



Exp. 1^ inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 

 Very near to Agatha. 



