﻿242 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



the wet-season form from Sikkim, taken by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, Silbet, Cberra 

 Punji, Khasias, and a female from Nowgong, Assam. Speciiaens from Silliet, 

 including the type female, are in the British Museum. 



NEPTIS ADIPALA. 



Neptis Adijx-ila, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 1872, p. 563, pi. 32, fig. 8, $ {dry-season) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, 



p. 832. de Nieeville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 102 (1886). 

 Neptis gononata, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1879, p. 641, pi. 69, fig. 2, ^ {wet-season). Distant, 



Ehop. Malay, p. 154, pi. IB, fig. 2, ^ (1883). 



Dry-season brood (Plate 285, fig. 1, la, b, o, ^J ? ). 



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

 vening spaces between the veins ; markings clear olivescent-white, very prominent 

 and sharply defined ; cilia alternated with white. Forewing with a narrow cell- 

 streak and rather elongated narrow contiguous spot ; discal curved series of spots 

 moderately small, the ujiper series oval, the lower broadly ovate or rounded and 

 somewhat obliquely truncate in the male, and more outwardly truncate in the female ; 

 a submarginal row of small lunular spots, a slightly-defined inner submarginal slender 

 pale sinuous line and an outer marginal lunular line. Bindwing with a moderately 

 broad inner-discal baud, and an outer-discal narrower band formed of quadi-ate 

 spots ; a slightly-defined medial-discal and a submarginal pale line. Underside rich 

 purplish-ferruginous ; markings as above, all very prominent ; the cell-streak and 

 spot generally more or less partially confluent ; the inner submarginal and outer 

 marginal line on forewing, the medial-discal line, submarginal line, a more or less 

 defined outer marginal line, and a basal and subbasal streak on hindwing being 

 lilacine-white. 



Expanse, c? 2^^ to 2^^, ? 2^^^ inches. 



Wet-season brood (Plate 285, fig. Id, e, f, g, J" $ ). 



Male and female. Upperside blacker than in dry-season ; the markings 

 smaller, narrower, and somewhat less sharply defined. Underside richer purplish- 

 ferruginous, markings as above, otherwise as in dry-season. 



Expanse, c? 2 to 2^q, ? 2^-0 to 2^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Assam ; Khasia and Naga Hills ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; 

 Malay Peninsula. 



DtSTEiBTrnoN. — We possess males of the dry-season form from Sikkim, both 

 sexes from the Khasias, a male of the wet-season form from Touughoo, Burma, and 



