78 NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN^. NEPTIS. 



351- ITeptis cnaoalis, HewUson. 



iV. CKacalis, Hewitson, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist,, fourth series, vol. xiv, p. 357 (1874). 



Habitat : Andaman Islands. 



Expanse : i"45 to 2"i inches. 



Description: " Upperside dark brown, /br^wz^ with the longitudinal spot from the base 

 orange, unusually long, reaching considerably below the middle of the wing, unbroken : crossed 

 beyond the middle by six spots of orange, the two middle spots minute, and outside of this by a 

 narrow band of lilac-white. Hindtving cxosztA before the middle by a broad band of white ; [a 

 submarginal more or less distinct tawny line]. Underside. Forewing as above, except that 

 the band and spots are much larger and rufous-white, the apex grey-white, and that there 

 are some grey spots near the costal margin. Hindwing with the base brown, undulated with 

 grey : below the band lilac-grey, traversed by two bands of brown ; the outer margin brown. 

 On the underside this species resembles A^. hordonia ; its forewing is unusually prolonged 

 at the apex." i^Heivitson, 1. c.) The female is larger than the male, and has the discal band 

 on the hindwing more distinctly white, but does not otherwise differ. 



The paleness of the markings at once distinguishes this species from all others of the 

 N. hordonia group. The late Mr. de Roepstorff has sent numerous specimens taken at Port 

 Blair to the Indian Museum, Calcutta. It is apparently confined to the Andaman Isles. 



352- Neptis hordonia, Stoii. 



Papilio hordonia, Stoll in Suppl. Cramer, Pap. Ex., pi. xxxili, figs. 4, 4D (1790) ; Nymphalis hordonia, 

 Godart, Enc. Meth., vol. ix, p. 429, n. 253 (1823) ; Neptis hordonia, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. 

 E. I. C, vol. i, p. 164, n. 337 (1857) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 150, n. 1, pi. xvii. fig. 13, tnale (1883). 



Habitat: N.-E. and S. India, Malay Peninsula, Siam, Sumatra, Banca, Java, Borneo. 



Expanse : 17 to 2 '2 inches. 



Description : " Male and female. Upperside rich dark brown, with the following 

 orange-coloured markings : — Forewing with a long and broad basal cellular streak occupying 

 the lower half of cell and deflexed and extended beyond it at and above the third and second 

 median nervules ; this streak above is distinctly cleft a little beyond its middle, and in some 

 specimens extends a little beneath the median nervure ; a subapical transverse macular fascia, 

 commencing near costa and terminating near third median nervule ; and a short oblique 

 curved and dentate fiiscia, commencing above the second median nervule and terminating 

 on inner margin. Hindwing with a broad medial fascia and a narrow (in some specimens 

 broad) curved submarginal one. Both wings with a narrow fuscous submarginal fascia, some- 

 times that on the yi7r^z«/m?' and sometimes \.\io%q on both wings narrowly outwardly margined 

 with dark ochraceous. Underside ochraceous. Forewing with a broad costal streak extending 

 to beyond cell, and from thence deflexed and outwardly curved to beyond first median 

 nervule, reddish brown ; two waved reddish brown submarginal fasciae, and the margin 

 broadly of the same colour, between these the colour is more or less violaceous ; extreme 

 margin fuscous, the cilia alternately greyish. Hindwing with a broad basal reddish brown 

 fascia or suffusion ; a somewhat curved medial violaceous fascia, narrowly bordered anteriorly 

 and broadly posteriorly with reddish brown, and a submarginal fascia somewhat similarly 

 coloured and bordered. Body and legs more or less concolourous with the ground-colour 

 of the wings both above and beneath." 



" This is a protean species, and varies much both in markings and hue, points of some 

 importance in estimating the specific position of other and closely allied variable species. 

 The specimen figured agrees with the figure of Stoll, and may be considered as typical. 

 Other Malaccan specimens have the yellow submarginal fascia on the upperside of the hind- 

 wing much wider, but are still inconstant in that respect. The palest specimen I possess, with 

 all the yellow markings broadest, is from Bombay. The mottled markings beneath are always 

 present and always distinctive." {Distant, 1. c.) 

 See remarks on the following species. 



