8o NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN^, NEPTIS. 



355- ITeptis assamica, Moore. 



Rahinda assamica, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1881, p. 311, 



Habitat : Sibsagar and Joiehat, Assam. 



Expanse : 17 to rg inches. 



Description: "Male. Allied to /?. [ = A':] heliodore, Fabricius [see N. dorelia, foot- 

 note p. 83]. Upperside: Forezving with the red discoidal streak similar to that in R. [ = A''.] 

 hordonia, not extending below the cell, the oblique subapical band somewhat narrow, the 

 lower discal band scarcely constricted in its middle. Hindwiug with a broad subbasal and 

 a discal band, the abdominal margin also broadly of the same red colour as the bands. 

 Underside ochreous-yellow, with very narrow ochreous-brown intervening spaces between 

 the bands." (Moore, 1, c.) 



There are two males of this pretty and distinct species in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from 

 Sibsagar, Upper Assam {S. E. Peal) ; and one in my own collection from Hulunguri in the 

 Jorehat district, Assam, taken by Mr, J. L. Sherwill in March. It can be easily distinguished 

 from A'', paraka on the underside by the absence of some small black markings on the upper 

 margin of the cell of the forewing and others defining the basal band of the hindwing. The dark 

 markings of the underside of A^. assamica are also paler in colour and more diffused. The abdo- 

 minal margin of the hindwing on the upperside being orange is also a very distinct feature. 

 It seems to be rather a variable species, as one Sibsagar and the Jorehat specimen differ 

 from the type in the extent of the orange markings on the upperside, in the type specimen, 

 the oblique subapical and the lower discal bands of the forewing are separated, and the 

 discal black band of the hindwing is wide, while in the other two specimens the former are 

 joined, and the latter is less than half as wide. 



356. Neptis dinding'a, Butler. 



N. dindinga, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc, Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 542, n. 10, pi. Ixviii, fig. 6 

 (1877) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 151, n. 3, pi. xvii, fig. 5, female (1883). 

 Habitat; Moulmein, Tenasserim, Malacca. 

 Expanse : 1-9 to 2'2 inches. 



Description : " Larger than N. heliodora [heliodore], the bands broader, particularly the 

 medial band of the hindwing, which is twice as broad and extends nearly to the base ; subapical 

 patch q{ foreiuing twice as wide, and deeply indented in the middle of its inner border ; sub- 

 marginal tawny streak replaced by pale brown (but intersected by the black line) in the 

 forewing, tawny but extremely slender in the hindwing. Differences on the underside much 

 as above ; discal band of the hindwing broad and black, and intersected by a whity-brown 

 streak." 



" We have a specimen in the British Museum from Moulmein, which measures 2 inches 

 2 lines in expanse. It is a well-marked species." (^Butler, 1. c.) 



"Female: Allied to N. peraka, from which it differs by the different shape of 

 the cellular streak and the absence of the yellow submarginal lines io \.\i^ forezving; the 

 yellow fasciK to the hindiuing are much broader (but this we have already seen is a variable 

 character); the markings on the underside are darker, larger, and more regular, especially 

 on \.\iQ forezving." {Distant, 1. c) 



I have not seen this species. It may be distinguished from N. paraka on the underside 

 by the absence of the small black markings mentioned in the preceding species, and from N'. 

 assamica by the black discal band on the upperside of the hindwing reaching the abdominal 

 margin. 



357- Neptis paraka, Butler. 



ff. paraka (peraka on p\ate), But\er,Tra.ns. Linn. Soc, Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 542, n, 9, pi. 

 Ixviii, fig. 2 (1877) ; N. peraka. Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 150, n. 2, pi. xvii, fig. 2, female (1883), 



Habitat : Sylhet, Dafla Hills, Chittagong, Mergui, Malay peninsula, Borneo. 

 Expanse : i'6 to 2"o inches. 



