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NTMPHALID^. 
arched towards the base of the wing in the typical species ; lower discocellular obsolete, so 
that the discoidal cell is open, its place often indicated by a dark bar having a slightly 
curved paler line dividing the pale discoidal patch into two parts, and extending to the 
median vein just before the origin of its third branch, which is slightly arched. 
'■^ Hind wings very oval ; the costal margin much arched; the outer margin rounded, slightly 
scalloped. Precostal vein forming a short straight spur, forked at its extremity ; costal vein 
slightly curved, reaching only to the middle of the costal margin ; subcostal vein arising 
from the costal just beyond the origin of the precostal, and emitting its branch almost at 
its base. The upper discocellular forming the curved base of the discoidal vein ; the lower 
discocellular wanting, so that the narrow discoidal cell is open. Median vein branching 
below the branches of the subcostal vein, with the spaces between the extremities of the 
branches along the outer margin of the wing wider than usual, in consequence of the costal 
vein extending only to the middle of the costa. 
" Fore legs of the male very slender and short, more or less clothed with very delicate white 
hairs ; femur slightly curved ; tibia scarcely half its length ; tarsus very short, not above 
one third of the length of the tibia, forming a minute, oval, exarticulate joint, destitute of 
claws. Of the female more robust, and much longer than those of the male, scaly, with but 
few fine hairs ; femur slightly curved ; tibia also a little curved, about two thirds of the length 
of the femur ; tarsus nearly as long as the tibia, well articulated.; the basal joint half the 
length of the tarsus, the remainder rather dilated, with strong spines on the inside ; the 
terminal joint minute, spined, but without claws. 
" Middle and hind legs rather short, scaly ; tibia spined beneath, with long tibial spurs ; tarsus 
with four rows of strong spines beneath ; claws rather long and very much bent, and acute 
at the tip ; paronychia and pulvillus smaU. 
" Abdomen slender, elongated. 
" Laeva slightly elongated ; head armed above with two short conical points ; second and third 
segments of the body with a pair of diverging, obtuse, setose, fleshy spines, the hinder pair 
being the largest ; an erect tubercle near the extremity of the body. Piqja with the head 
bifid, and with the base of the abdomen-case much swollen." {Westwood, I. c.) 
Kcpresentatives of this genus are fouud iu all the warmer portions of the 
Old World. 
Neptis thisbe. (Plate XVIII. figs. 8, 10, vars.) 
Neplis thisbe, Mcnetrics, Bull. Acad. Pctr. xvii. p. 211 (1859) ; Schrenck's Reiscn, ii. 
p. 2G, pi. 2. fig. 9 (1859). 
Neptis thisbe, var. thcmis, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 35 (1890). 
Neplis thisbe, var. thetis, Leech, I. c. 
"Alis subdontatis, fuecis ; anticis, linca longitudinali integra, fascia marginali valde interrupta, 
poslicis fascia media, fulvo-/lavis, bis fascia Bubmargimili fusco-cinorasccute ; subtus, alis 
castaneo-flavesccntiijue varicgatis, fasciis et margino cxteriuro dilutioribus." (Meiietries, I. c.) 
This species occurs at several ])laces in Western China during July and 
August at various elevations from 5000 to 10,000 feet. In Central China it 
