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tinge, interrupted by the nervules, bordered on each side with dark grej', and preceded by a 
bright chestnut-brown band tapering from the outer angle to inner margin. Fringes white- 
chequered, except at fourth subcostal, with black patches at the extremities of the nervules. 
Female. Darker ; streak and bands narrower, spots rather smaller, the patch on costa of primaries 
represented by a small linear spot and some yellow scales ; the costal border of secondaries is 
not glassy. The under surface is more suffused with bright chestnut-brown, the space 
enclosed by curved discal streak is black, slightly glossy towards base. 
Expanse, <S 68 millim., 5 VO millim. 
This species has only been received from Chang-yang, where it occurs in 
June, but appears to be rare. 
Neptis hesione. (Plate XVIII. fig. 1, 6 .) 
Neptis hesione, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 34 (1890). 
Male. Fuliginous black, with pale buff markings. Discal streak of primaries broad, partially 
suffused with blackish, the outer extremity produced and obtusely pointed, two spots near 
apex, oval and of nearly equal size, separated from each other by the first discoidal uervule, 
and from an indistinct curved linear spot by the subcostal nerve ; a spot in the first median 
interspace is nearly round and touches both nervules, below are two smaller spots separated by 
the submedian ; submarginal band pale and narrow. Secondaries have a fairly broad central 
band ; the submarginal band tapers from costa, attains its greatest widtli in the submedian 
interspace, and from thence is attenuated to abdominal margin ; between the bands is a 
transverse series of oblong black spots : there is a broad leaden-grey streak along tlie costa 
of secondaries, obscuring the upper part of yellow central band. Under surface chocolate- 
brown ; markings white, streaked with ochreous grey, and clouded with whitish along the 
costa ; discal streak broad, clear and distinct, with a large blackish patch below; apical spots 
liardly separated ; spot in first median interspace invades the space above and unites below 
with the enlarged pair on inner margin ; submarginal line white tinged with violet, inter- 
rupted towards apex by two longitudinal streaks of the ground-colour, and preceded by a 
chocolate-brown band, which is narrowly edged inwardly with blackish grey and intersected 
by a transverse series of pale lunulcs. Secondaries with basal, central, and submarginal bands ; 
the first traverses the wing from base to costal nerve, where it is cut into by the ground- 
colour ; the second is bordered externally with blackish grey, followed by ochreous grey ; the 
third is tinged with violet, preceded by an interrupted band of the ground-colour, bordered 
with ochreous grey and followed by a scries of lunulcs, also of the ground-colour, edged exter- 
nally witli wliilish. Fringes che(]ucred black and white. 
Female is roiuider in the wing ; the yellow markings arc similar to those t)f tlie male, but there 
is no liiadcn streak on costa of secondaries. 
Expanse, cJ OO-Hfi millim., J (52-72 millim. 
Closely allied to N. armandia, Oberthiir, but differs from that species on the 
upper surface in the broader discal streak, closer proximity of the apical spots, 
and ])!de subinargiiial band of" primaries; also in the broader central and 
