LIMENITIS— XEPTIS. 
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"Female. Upperside with portions at the base, as in male, dark l)rownish green; the middle of 
both wings white, with broad greenish-brown band crossing the disc ; exterior margins broadly 
paler greenish brown, with green patch at the anal angle ; markings at base of wings pale. 
Underside pale greenish yellow, with greenish-golden gloss ; bands and markings as on upper- 
side, but less distinct and whitish. 
" Expanse 3 to 3| inches." {Moore, h c.) 
This species occurs at Moupin and Pu-tsu-fong in Westera China, and at 
Chang-yang in Central China. Mr. de Niceville (l. c.) states that L. danava 
has a Avide range in the Himalayas, occurring from Masuri to Sibsagar in 
Upper Assam. Mr. Elwes (T. E. S. 1888, p. 352) says that the species is 
rare in Sikkim, at elevations up to 7000 feet, from April to October, and that 
the female is seldom found ; my collectors also failed to meet with this sex of 
L. danava in China. 
Genus NEPTIS. 
Neptis, Fabricius, Illiger's Magazin, vi. p. 282 (1807) ; Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. 
p. 270 (1850); de Niceville, Butt. Ind. ii. p. 75 (1886). 
" Body slender ; fore wings long ; antenna) short ; palpi small, hairy, and very acute. 
" Head rather broad, with a frontal tuft. 
" Eyes large, prominent, and naked. 
" Antennce rather short, not half the length of the fore wing ; terminated by a short, slender, 
gradually-formed club, the tip of which is curved outwardly, finely keeled beneath. 
Labial palpi small, directed obliquely upwards, scarcely reaching above the level of the middle 
of the eyes. The terminal joint in the same line as the preceding, compressed, clothed 
with long loose hairs along the whole of the fore edge, and also on the liinder side at the 
extremity of the second joint ; basal joint short ; second joint broader and slightly curved 
at the base ; terminal joint, in the typical species, nearly as long as the preceding, slender, 
and very acute at the tip. 
" Thorax rather slender, scarcely broader than the head, oval, very slightly hirsute, often clothed 
with metallic scales. 
'■^ Fore tvincjs elongate, triangular. The anterior margin very slightly arched; apical angle 
rounded. Apical margin rounded, not, or but slightly, sinuated. Inner margin three fourths 
of the length of the anterior, more or less emarginate towards the middle. Costal vein 
moderately strong, not extending to the middle of the costa. Subcostal vein slender ; its 
first branch arising at about one third of the length of the wing, and uniting with the costa 
a little beyond the middle ; second branch, in the typical species, arising close beyond the 
first, before the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell ; third branch arising at about two 
thirds of the length of the wing, and extending to the tip ; fourth branch arising at about 
three fourths of the length of the wing, and reaching to the apical margin below the apex, 
the apical portion of the vein being deflexed. Ui^per discocellular vein almost obliterated, 
arising close beyond the origin of the second subcostal branch ; middle discocellular short. 
