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third subcostal nervule emitted far beyond cell and ending at apex ; 
upper and middle disco-cellular nervules both very short (the latter 
inclined towards base), so that the radial nervules are closely approxi- 
mated at their origin, — lower disco- cellular quite wanting ; discoidal 
cell short. Hind- wings : broad, subtruncate ; costa strongly arched, 
especially in $ (where the very convex margin is superiorly polished 
and subnacreous, and covers a corresponding similar surface on inner 
margin of lore-wings ; hind-margin rather more sinuated than in fore- 
wings ; anal angle not prominent ; inner margins but slightly convex, 
forming a very incomplete and shallow groove, leaving hinder part of 
abdomen exposed ; costal nervure usually terminating beyond middle, 
but rarely extending to just before apex ; subcostal nervure branched 
very near base ; upper disco-cellular nervule (forming base of radial 
nervule) leaving second, subcostal nervule very near its origin, — lower 
disco-cellular quite obsolete \ discoidal cell extremely short ; internal 
nervure usually rather short, ending about middle. Fore-legs of $ very 
small and slender, scaly, sometimes with a very sparse external edging 
of minute hairs ; tibia much shorter than femur ; tarsus exceedingly 
short, blunt at extremity, — of $ considerably larger, almost without 
hairs ; tarsi nearly as long as tibia, distinctly jointed, finely spinulose 
near and at extremity. Middle- and hind-legs rather short and stout, 
scaly; tibise strongly spinose inferiorly, and with rather long terminal 
spurs ; tarsi densely spinulose inferiorly. 
Abdomen elongate ; very slender in 
Larva. — Head large, bifid on its summit ; on back of fourth seg- 
ment a pair of elongate, divergent, erect fleshy processes, set with short 
bristles ; similar but very much smaller pairs of short processes on back 
of third, sixth, and twelfth segments, — the two latter pairs inclining 
backward ; body rather attenuated posteriorly. 
Pupa. — Usually much curved abdominally, thick centrally ; head 
deeply bifid ; wing-covers projecting widely on each side, 
(These characters of larva and pupa are taken from figures of 
those of Accris, Lepech., in PI. V. of Horsfield and Moore's Catal. 
Lep. Ins. in H.E.I.G. Museum (1857), and of those of iV. Varniona 
and N. Jumha, Moore, in The Lepidojptcra of Ceylon, pi. xxviii. 
1881.) 
Nejptis is not nearly related to any other South-African genus, but 
is in several respects intermediate between Athyma and Limenitis, 
neither of which has any African representative, although both have 
otherwise a very wide Old-World distribution, and Limenitis extends 
also to North America. From Athyma, which it most nearly resembles 
in colouring and pattern, Neptis is at once known by its far smaller 
thorax ; while it is distinguished from Limenitis by its much more 
acute palpi ; shorter, less gradually-clavate antennae ; open discoidal 
cell of the fore-wings ; much smaller fore-legs in the $ ; and more 
strongly-arched costa in the hind-wings. 
