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20). The type specimens of Susruta, Gacharica, and of leuconata from Malacca, 

 specimens from Tilin Yaw, taken in March by Capt. E. Y. Watson, and a female from 

 Pegu, are in the British Museum. Mr. de Niceville records " specimens in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, from Sikkim, Assam, and Upper Tenasserim " {I.e. 103). Also, 

 that it is " a common species in Sikkim, occurring throughout the warm months, up 

 to 5000 feet elevation " (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 138). Males of wet-season form 

 from Perak, Sumatra, and Borneo, are in Mr. H. Grose-Smith's collection. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 283, figs. 1, la, b, c, are from typical 

 Gacharica — the dry-season form, and figs. Id, e, f, g, from typical Susruta — the 

 wet-season form. 



NEPTIS SOMA. 



Neptis Soma, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 9, pi. 49, fig. 6, 9 (wet-season), de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, etc., ii. p. 102 (1886). 



Dry-season brood (Plate 284, fig. 1, la, b, c, (J 9 ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside olivescent-black, with blacker intervening 

 spaces between the veins ; markings dull olivescent- white. Forewing with the cell- 

 streak broadly truncate at its end, the discocellular triangular spot well separated 

 and rather short in the male, longer in the female ; a curved discal series of ovate 

 spots, and a submarginal row of very small lunular spots ; an inner submarginal 

 pale sinuous line, and a less apparent outer marginal line. Hindiving with an mner 

 discal moderately broad band, and a narrow outer discal lunular band ; a medial 

 discal and a submarginal slender obscure pale line. Underside deep purplish 

 ferruginous, darkest in the male; markings as above, very prominent; cell-streak 

 well separated from discocellular spot ; inner submarginal line on the forewing, basal 

 and subbasal streak, a medial-discal and outer marginal lines on hindwing lilacine 

 white. 



Wet-season brood (Plate 284, fig. Id, e, f, c? ? ). 



Male and female. Upperside with the cell-streak and triangular spot narrower, 

 tlie discal spots smaller, the bands on hindwing also much narrower, and fuliginous- 

 white. Underside richer purplish-ferruginous ; markings as above, otherwise as in 

 dry-season. 



Expanse, c? 2i-o> ? 2i^ to 2^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Kumaon ; Sikkim ; Assam ; Silhet ; Khasia Hills. 



Distribution. — Mr. W. Doherty records it from the " Sarju, Gori, and Kali 

 Valleys from 2000 to 4000 feet elevation, in Kumaon" (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 125). 

 We possess both sexes of the dry-season form from the Khasia Hills, and males of 



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