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NYMPHALID^. 
Oberthiir's figure of Neptis {Limenitis) aiitonia* on the upper surface, Avhich 
alone is figured, and is probably identical with that insect, although on the 
under surface it does not quite tally with the description of antonia, which is 
a difficult one to comprehend. 
Both forms of this species occur at Omei-shan and Wa-shan, but I have 
received the yellow form only from Moupin and Chia-kou-ho. The typical 
form alone appears to be found at Chang-yang in Central China. 
Distribution. N.W. Himalayas, Nepal, Yunan, Western and Central China. 
Neptis philyroides. 
Neptis j)hiJyroides, Staudinger, Rom. sur Lep. iii. p. 146 (1887) ; Fixserij op. cit. p. 294, 
pi. xiv. figs. 1 a, b. 
" Same size as N. phihjra, and differs principally from that species in having two small white 
linear spots placed, one below the other, on the costa of primaries before the white macular 
band, and five or six lunular white spots before the outer margin. In N. phiJijra there are but 
two or three lunular whitish marginal spots, and these are indistinct. On the under surface 
the ground-colour is light j-ellowish brown (almost with a greenish tinge) in p/ti^yro^'tZes, and 
a darkish dirt}' brown in phihjra; the white markings are very similar, but ■philijroides has 
the extra costal spots as on upper surface. 
" The scarcer females are exactly like the males in colour and markings, but larger in size. 
" One male specimen from the Ussuri has very conspicuously large white markings." (Stati- 
d'uKjer, I, c.) 
Expanse 64-70 millim. 
Dr. Fixsen (/. c.) records a female example from Corca which he says is 
larger than Amurland specimens. The figure of this example, measured from 
centre of thorax to tip of fore wing and the result doubled, has an expansion 
of 75 millim. 
Neptis excellens. 
Neptis excellens, Butler, Cist. Eiit. ii. p. 282 (1878) ; Pryer, Rhop. Nilion. p. 21, pi. G. 
fig. 2 (1886). 
"■Female. Wings above black-brown; sinuations of the fringes white ; primaries with a narrow 
white streak from the base (widening beyond the middle, nofclied at tlie end of the cell, and 
then tapering to a point), just above the median vein; an irregular interrupted discal series 
of white spots, the first of which is an oblique subcostal dash or abbreviated line, tlie second, 
third, and fifth arc largo, more or less pyriform spots, the fourth and sixth are smaller, and 
the Kcvcntli in a 1)ifid oblique internal dasli ; two white subniargiiial dots, one opposite to tlio 
third and one to the sixfh of tlie discal series ; Bccoudarics with a rather wide straight white 
belt across the basal third, and running from near tlic middle of the sul)cos(al vein to the inner 
* Etud. d'Entom. ii. p. 22, pi. iv. fig. 3 (1876). 
