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being larger aud whiter than the rest ; between the latter row and 
white band is a series of rather large, almost contiguous quadrate 
marks, darker than ground-colour, and forming a stripe parallel to 
hind-margin; from three to seven pure-white dots in discoidal cell, 
and one or two just beyond extremity of cell. Hind-iving : a broad 
white stripe, continuous of the inner-marginal, semicircular mark on 
fore-iving, divided into seven by crossing nervules, occupies central 
portion from costa to inner margin, being curved, parallel to hind- 
margin ; series of dark spots broader than in forc-ioing ; three thin, 
lunular, pale streaks bordering hind-margin as in fore-wing. Cilia 
of both wings conspicuously marked with white between denticula- 
tions. Under side. — Very similar^ groiond- colour Fore-iving : 
costa white close to base ; a short, white, longitudinal streak from base 
in discoidal cell, bordering subcostal nervure ; five or six white dots 
in cell, and a transverse row of three from costa, a little beyond cell ; 
white band and marking as on upper side ; three rows parallel to hind- 
margin conspicuously white, and forming almost continuous streaks ; 
the three first spots of the innermost row larger than on up'per side, 
longitudinally triangulate. Hind-iuing : three white bands in basal 
portion — a broad one edging costa to a little before middle, a narrow 
one, parallel to the first, commencing on inner margin, and a broad 
one, also parallel and from inner margin, which is hroken into three 
spots towards costa ; central band as on u]iper side ; lunulate streaks 
bordering hind-margin conspicuously white. Cilia as on ui^jper side. 
A very close ally of N. Agatha is N. Nysiades, He wits. {Exot. jButt.y iv. 
pi. 25, ff. 3, 4), from Old Calabar; but it differs in having the lower portion of 
the band of the fore-wings much narrowed and divided into two entirely sepa- 
rate spots ; it has, moreover, in discoidal cell of fore-wing on upper side only a 
white dot and oblique line ; and on under side, besides the longitudinal streak 
from base, only two oblique streaks. 
Neptis Kilddeli, Boisd., from Madagascar, is also nearly related to N. 
Agatha, but at once recognised by its very broad white bands (scarcely 
indented externally by black nervules) across hind-wings and lower discal area 
of fore-wings. 
A Ne/ptis taken by Colonel Bowker at Quilimane, in the year 1878, is to 
some extent intermediate between Agatha and Kikideli, having the bands in 
arrangement like those of the former, but markedly broader, and externally not 
more indented by black nervules than those of the latter. 
This strikingly-marked Neptis frequents wooded places ; it flies rather 
slowly, and often settles on the leaves of low trees. I once took a specimen 
on the flowers of Lantana. It was far from numerous on the coast of Natal 
during the summer of 1867, and does not appear ever to be abundant there. 
Localities of Ne^His Agatha. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Is^atal. 
a. Coast Districts. — B'Urban. Verulam. Tongaati River. More- 
wood's Bay (/. H. Boicker). " Lower Umkomazi." — J. H. 
Bowker. 
Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ay res). 
