152 miOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



the tliorax with some frontal yellow markings and the disk of the ahdomeu beyond base much suffused 

 with the same colour ; body beneath and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 

 Exp. wings, 45 to 48 millim. 



Var. dorelia. (Tab. XVII., iig. 3.) 



N,'ptis dnnii,,, Butler, Trans. Liuii. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 512, n. 7, t. Ixviii. f. 3 (1877). 



Papilio IModore, Fabr. (ucc. Cnua. uec. Moore), Mant. Ins. ii. p. 52, n. 516 (1787) ; Eiit. Syst. iii. p. 130, 



11. 401 (1793). 

 Nciitis lieliodorc, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 02, u. 4 (1869). 

 Neptis heliodoni, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 343, n. 2. 



Mr. Butler states as his " defferentia specifica" that "the type of the Fabrician species differs from 

 the examples of A', fi'.io in the Horsfield Cabinet from Java in having a single instead of a double central 

 arched line across the under surface of the secondaries ; this line is, in some examples, slightly thickened." 



Hab.— Burma ; Moulmein (Brit. Mus.)— Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca 

 (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.)— Java (coll. Horsf.)— Borneo (Druce).— Siam (Moore). 



A Malaccan specimen in the British Museum, which was collected by Capt. Pinwill, is 

 represented by the figure 4 (Tab. XVII.), which is a slight variety compared with the type, 

 though I possess a thoroughly typical specimen collected iu Province Wellesley. 



B. Winris irith iialc fiiUijinnns miirlings and spots. 



5. Neptis vikasi. (Tab. XVI., fig. 13 5 .) 



X,j,ti:< VikMsl, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. t. 5, f. 2, 2« (1829); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lap. Mus. E.I.C. i. 



p. I(j5, u. 340 (1857); Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 344, u. 4; Butl. Trans. Liuii. Soc. ser. 2, 



Zool. vol. i. p. 541, u. 5 (1877). 

 Var. Xi-jitis Omerotia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 571. 



Male and Female. "Wings above dark shining fuliginous-brown, with paler and darker markings. 

 Anterior wings with the following very pale fuliginous markings : — a long basal cellular streak about 

 reaching the lower discoidal nervule, beyond which the wing is crossed by a strongly curved series of spots, 

 aud two almost straight submarginal fasciae, which are denoted and separated by two very dark fuscous 

 and abruptly sinuated narrow fascia?, the outer margin with a distinctly darker patch near apex and about 

 centre. Posterior wings with an almost straight, transverse, and very pale fuliginous fascia near base, 

 followed shortly beyond by a narrow and obscurely paler linear fascia, aud a very dark fuscous macular 

 fascia crossing centre of wing ; a submarginal series of very dark fuscous spots placed between the 

 nervules, preceded and followed by pale fuliginous, the outer margin being broadly fuscous and very 

 obscurely spotted. Wings beneath very much paler, marked generally as above, but the pale markings 

 nearly white and the spots on the outer margins of both wings very distinct. Body and legs more or less 

 concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, 52 to 55 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Darjeeliug ; Sikkim.* — Malay Peninsula; Penang (Mus. Hop. Oxou). — 

 Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) — Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) — Java (Horsf.) — Borneo (Druce, and coll. 

 Dist.) — Celebes (van Hasselt — coll. Dist.). 



The chromo-lithographic artist has not been happy with the figure of a specimen from 

 Province Wellesley, which is here given. In this figure the colour of the under surface of the 



* De Niceville (Jouru. As. 8oc. Beug. vol. li. part 2, p. 59, u. 155. 



