54 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



the year ; most plentiful from May to October. Flight slow, very tame ; a dozen at 

 a time will alight on the ground close to you " {Hutchison). 



Genus NEPTIS. 



Neptis, Fabricius, lUiger's Mag. vi. p. 282 (1807). 

 Acca (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 44 (1816). 

 Philonoma, Billberg, Enura. Ins, p. 78 (1820). 



Forewing elongate ; costa much arched from the base ; exterior margin short, 

 obhquely convex, waved ; posterior margin long ; costal vein extending to half 

 length of the margin ; first and second subcostal branches very short, first emitted 

 near end of the cell, second from its end, third at one-half beyond, fourth and fifth at 

 two-thirds beyond ; upper discocellular very short, bent outwards in its middle, the 

 radials from its angle and end ; cell open, broad ; lower median branch from opposite 

 discocellular, two upper median branches from some distance beyond ; submedian 

 recurved in the middle : hindwing short, anterior margin very convex in the middle, 

 exterior margin convex, scalloped ; costal vein extending to two-thirds of the margin, 

 with a short straight basal spur, which is bent inward at tip and thrown off opposite 

 to base of subcostal ; first subcostal branch emitted very near to costal, the radial 

 starting from the second at an equal distance beyond ; cell open, broad ; lower 

 median from opposite base of radial ; two upper median branches at equal distance 

 from lower and base of cell ; submedian straight, internal vein recurved. Body 

 slender; palpi ascending, very finely pilose, second and third joints of about equal 

 length, third joint slender and very pointed ; legs slender ; antennse slender, with a 

 gradually formed club [iV^. acem]. 



NEPTIS VAEMONA (Plate 28, Fre. 1 a, h). 

 Neptis Varmona, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 561. 



Male and female. Upperside black : forewing with a white longitudinal streak 

 within the cell, a lengthened triangular spot beyond it, a discal transverse curved 

 series of seven oval spots, and a submarginal row of small lunate spots; a very 

 indistinct pale waved line between the discal series and another along the outer 

 margin; the discoidal streak slightly black speckled near its thickest end : hindwing 

 with a white broad recurved medial transverse band and a discal linear series of six 

 .quadrate spots ; a pale linear indistinct line intervening across the disc, and another 

 along the outer margin. Underside ferruginous; with white markings more prominent 

 than above and all black bordered ; the hindwing having a short white streak on 

 base of costa and another below it. 



Expanse, $ If, ? 2^ inches. 



