NYMPHALID^, NYMPH ALIN/E. NEPTIS. 75 



Java ( Horsfield), differs from the Sumatran specimen in having no bUie colour on the hindwinfj, 

 in this respect agreeing with the variety described below under the name of J. wallacei by 

 Mr. Distant. 



^. (?;zV4>'/« is a common species and appears to occur everywhere in India up to about 

 6,000 feet elevation. It is exceedingly variable on the underside, specimens from the dry 

 north-west being of pale stone-grey, while examples from Shiliong, Assam, have the 

 underside dark brown, richly mottled and shaded with paler brown. On the upperside 

 too there are variations in markings, some males show traces of two ochreous bands across 

 the cell of the forewing, which are usually more or less present in the female, in some specimens 

 of the latter sex, that feature being very prominent. The ocelli vary greatly in size in 

 both sexes, in some specimens they are fully twice as large as in others. 



J. wallacei* the Malayan form appears to be barely separable from the Sumatran y. ocyale, 

 Hiibner, 



Genus 62.— NEPTIS, Fabricius. (Plate XXIII). 



Nepth, Fabricius, HI. Mag., vol. vi, p. 282, n. 15 (1807) ; id ; Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol ii, p. 270 

 (1850) ;id., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p. 3 ; idem, id., Lep. Cey , vol. i, p. 54 (1881) ; id.. Distant, 

 Rhop. Malay., p. 149 (1883) ; Pantoporia (part), and Acca (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett , p. 44 (i8i6) ; 

 Philonoma. Billberg, Enura. Ins., p. 78 (1820) ; Pluedyma, Felder, Neues Lep., p. 31, n. 74 (1861) ; Rahinda, 

 Moore, Lep. Cey., vol, i, p 56 (iij8i). 



•' Body, slender •,/orewuig long ; antennce short ; palpi small, hairy, and very acute. Head, 

 rather broad, with a frontal tuft. Eyes, large, prominent, and naked. Antennce, rather short, 

 not half the length of the forewing ; terminated by a short, slender, gradually formed club, 

 the tip of which is curved outwardly, finely keeled beneath. Palpi, small, directed obliquely 

 upwards, scarcely reaching above the level of the middle of the eyes. The terminal joint 

 in the same line as the preceding, cortipressed, clothed with long loose hairs along the whole 

 of the fore edge, and also on the hinder side at the extremity of the second joint ; basal joint 

 short ; second joint broader and slightly curved at the base ; terminal joint, in the typical 

 species, nearly as long as the preceding, slender, and very acute at the tip. Thorax, rather slender, 

 scarcely broader than the head, oval, very slightly hirsute, often clothed with metallic scales. 

 Abdomen, slender, elongated. Forewing, elongate, triangular. The anterior tnargin very slight- 

 ly arched ; apex rounded ; outer tnargin rounded, not, or but slightly, sinuated ; inner margin 

 three-fourths of the length of the costal margin, more or less emarginate towards the middle. 

 Costal nerviire moderately strong, not extending to the middle of the costa. Subcostal nervure 

 slender ; its first branch arising at about one-third of the length of the wing, and uniting with 



• Junonia wallacei. Distant (Papilio orithya, Linnaeus, var. ?), Rhop. Malay., p. 95, n. 3, pi. xi, figs. 3, male ' 

 4, yeiiiate {ZS83}. Habitat: Province Wellesley, Malacca, Java. Expanse : A/ate, i-6 to 20 ; /em'ale 20 



to 2'i inches. Description : " M.x-Lw.,/oreiviH% with the basal portion shining fuscous ; costal area excludine 



base and apex — very pale ochraceous ; cell crossed by two reddish fasciae, one near middle, the other near 

 termination; a little beyond cell, commencing near subcostal nervure, is an oblique and inwardly much 

 excavated pale ochraceous fascia which reaches outer margin near apices of the median nervules ; beyond this 

 is a smaller and shorter fascia terminating at upper discoidal nervule, and a fainter and less continuous sub- 

 marginal fascia of the same colour ; two ocellated spots, the first broadly surrounded with reddish between the 

 discoidal nervules, the second and larger situated between the second and first median nervules ; beneath this 

 spot and near outer angle is a small pale bluish patch. Hindwiiig pale bluish, abdominal margin pale fuscous 

 base and an irregular patch occupying lower half of cell, very dark fuscous or black ; two ocellated spots' 

 cue black, with an obscure paler centre between the lower subcostal and discoidal nervules, the second and 

 largest red, with a large pale bluish centre and black margins situated between the second and first median 

 nervules ; a marginal and two submarginal waved black lines, between which the colour is more or less distinctlv 

 pale ochraceous. Underside; pale but warm ochraceous. Forewing with the base of cell, and two broad 

 irregular fasciae crossing cell, reddish ochraceous, the one at end of cell continued and terminating a little 

 beneath first median nervule — this is followed by a narrow waved black fascia ; remaining markings as above 

 but the_ ocellated spots much darker. Hindiuing darker ochraceous, crossed by several waved and scalloned 

 darker lines, with a wide, distinct, slightly darker submarginal fascia on which are placed the two ocellated 

 spots as above, and a third and much more indistinct spot situated between the subcostal nervules • mareinal 

 and submarginal lines as above, but fainter and much paler. Body and legs more or less concolourous vvith win^s 

 Female. Upperside marked and spotted generally as in mile, but brownish ochraceous, the blue coIol ' 



of the blue and black markings to the wings of the same. The m.ile almost exactly resembles Hiibner's fio-ure ° 

 /■, <7fj<i/t; (Saminl. Exot. Schmett., vol. ii, pi. x.\xiii, figs. 3, 4) It is another of the many distinct *' loc"l 

 races' found in the Malay Peninsula and neighbouring islands." (Distant, \ c). There is a female specim 

 mentioned above from Java in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, which agrees with the description and lieu ^"f 

 this species ; but as Mr, Butler says J. ocyale occurs in Java, and Mr Distant that J. zvallacei\% also found^ 

 that island, it would appear from this that the latter canuut be maintained as a " local race" even of J, orithvi^ 



