540 L. de Niceville — Description of Neptis praslini. [No. 2, 



streaks in the discoidal cell or triangular spot beyond the cell on the 

 upperside of the forewing, though they are present on the underside. 

 On the upperside of the hind wing the sub marginal series of white spots 

 is also absent. 



7. Neptis brebissonii, Boisduval. 



Limenitis brebissonii, Boisduval, Yoy. 1' Astrolabe, Ent., part i, p. 132, n. 3 (1832). 



Habitat: New Guinea (Boisduval) ; Waigiou. 



Expanse : $ , 2*5 inches. 



Description : Female. Upperside, both wings black. Forewing 

 with a small rounded spot just beyond the middle and a rather larger 

 one at the end of the discoidal cell, both indistinct, white, irrorated 

 with black scales; a subapical, outwardly oblique, well separated series 

 of four white spots, the anteriormost very small, the second elongated 

 and the largest, the third also elongated, rather smaller than the second, 

 the fourth round, a little Jarger than the first ; two large white spots 

 on the disc, divided only by the second median nervule ; two elongated 

 white spots on the middle of the inner margin, divided only by the 

 submedian nervure ; a submarginal series of six small white spots, the 

 tour anterior ones round and pure white, the two posterior ones 

 elongated, somewhat sullied with black scales. Hindiving with a broad 

 discal white band, divided into eight portions by the crossing veins, not 

 quite reaching the abdominal margin, ending anteriorly on the first 

 subcostal nervule, the inner edge of the band straight, the outer edge 

 somewhat irregular ; a barely traceable submarginal series of whitish 

 spots between the veins. Underside, both wings black. Foreiving with 

 a prominent quadrate spot just beyond the middle, a triangular spot 

 beyond the end of the discoidal cell; the subapical and discal spots as 

 on the upperside ; a submarginal series of eight prominent quadrate 

 white spots, the series broken in the middle, as there is only a 

 small (instead of a. large) spot in the second median interspace; an 



