﻿NYMPHALIN^. (Group LIMSNITINA.) 



NEPIIS HAMPSONI. 



NeiMs Kallaura et Nandina, Hampson, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 353, nee Moore. 

 Neptis Nandina, Beetham, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 281. 



Dry-season hrood (Plate 281, fig. 1, la, b, (J ? ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside black ; markings white, similar to those 

 in wet-season Yerhuryi, except that on the forewing, the cell-streak is narrower, the 

 discocellular spot both narrower and shorter, and the discal series of spots also 

 narrower, thesubapical decreasing to the costa; submarginal lunules small. On the 

 hindiving the discal and outer band are both compai-atively narrower. Underside 

 darker brownish-ferruginous ; the markings, as on upperside, narrower, the subapical 

 spots on forewing decreasing to the costa. 



Expanse, S 2^q, ? 2^^ to 2i^o inches. 



Wet-season Irood (Plate 281, fig. Ic, d, ^). 



Male. Upperside with all the markings narrower than in the dry-season ; the 

 submarginal lunules on forewing obscure. Underside with darker ground-colour ; 

 markings similar, but narrower. 



Expanse, S S^-q inches. 



Habitat. — South India. 



Distribution. — There is a specimen of both sexes of the dry-season brood in the 

 British Museum from Sir G. E. Hampson' s collection, labelled as having been taken 

 on the " Northern Slopes of the Nilgiris in January and October." Also a female 

 from Ootacamund, taken in August. We also possess a male and female taken on 

 the Nilgiris. Colonel C. Swinhoe has a male of both the dry and ■wet-season brood, 

 from the same Nilgiri collection. This is also probably the species referred to as 

 N. Kallaura, by Messrs. Davidson and Aitken (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, 

 282), who " bred a specimen from a pupa found, in February, in the Supa Taluka, 

 N. Kanara District, hanging to a leaf of Dalbergia confertifolia, the larva having been 

 feeding on the creeper." Capt. E. Y. Watson records a single female (as Nandina), 

 taken at Kathlekan, Mysore, in November (J. Bombay, N. H. S. 1890, 4). 



NEPTIS KALLAUKA. 



Neptis Kallaura, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, 309 (wet-season), de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. 

 p. 103 (1886). 



Wet-season Irood (Plate 281, fig. 2, 2a, ? ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside olivescent-black ; markings very pale 

 yellow ; cilia slightly alternated with grey. Forewing with a slender somewhat 



