NYMPHALID^. NYMPIIALIN/E. NEPTIS. 8l 



Description: " Almost exactly like IV. ^ordonia on the upperside, but brighter in 

 colour, and with the tawny bands rather broader ; the submarginal tawny streak of the forewing 

 deeply bisinuate so as to form two wide arches, and intersected by a black line. Underside 

 ochre-yellow, the black portions of the upperside represented by brownish stains, and par- 

 tially blotched with grey : the basal area of the huukving crossed by two black oblique 

 liturre ; the medial band bordered by two interrupted black lines ; the outer border inter- 

 sected (above the indication of the submarginal tawny line of the upperside) by a slightly 

 waved black line." 



" The typical N. hcliodora \^ — hcliodore, Fabricius] very nearly resembles this species on the 

 upperside ; but below it is very different." (^Bntkr, 1. c.) 



" Male and female. Closely allied to A", hordonia, and on the upperside scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable from some of the broadly yellow marked varieties of that species. Underside 

 not mottled, and though the pattern of the forewmg is similar, the markings of the hind-.uing 

 are distinct ; they consist of a basal fascia with dark margins, a regular and similarly coloured 

 and margined fascia near the middle, and a somewhat similar marginal fascia." (Distant, 1. c.) 



Mr. H. M. Parish took this species in the Chittagong district in October and November, 

 and Dr. J. Anderson in the Mergui archipelago in the cold weather ; the black liturre in the 

 cell of the forewing, and at the base of the hindwing on the underside are very distinctive. 



The second group comprises two subgroups, in the first of which the discoidal streak is 

 entire or indented, but never completely divided ; this subgroup contains all the more abnormal 

 forms, and the markings differ greatly in colour and in prominence ; in some they are bright 

 orange as in the first group, in others tinted with fuliginous or brown, in others pure white ; 

 in some again they are very broad and in others very narrow ; and on the underside many 

 of the species have the bands tinted with violet, very brightly in some ; this violet tinting is 

 confined to this subgroup, being absent from all the others. 



Sey to the Indian species of ITeptis. 



Second Group. 



B. The second subcostal nervule of tKe forewing given off at the outer extremity of the discoidal ceil. 

 a. Discoidal streak of forewing not divided by a black bar. 



a". Upperside with ground-colour black, with orange or ferruginous markings. 

 a". Underside with wide orange bands. Of very small size. 



a^. Upperside with prominent orange marginal band on hindwing. 



358. N. TiGA, Moulmein, Upper Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Siam, Java, Borneo. 



b^. Upperside with orange marginal band obscure or wanting on hindwing. 

 a*. Underside, margin of hindwing narrowly edged with fuscous. 



359. N. SATTANGA, Burma. 



b*. Underside, margin of hindwing broadly fuscous, bearing a narrow 

 orange line. 



360. N. KUHASA, Cachar. 



b"^. Underside with whitish bands tinted with shining violet. 

 «■■'. Upperside with the orange bands narrow. 



a*. Underside with outer submarginal violet band on hindwing 

 highly lunulate, the points reaching the margin. Of very 

 large size. 



361. N. RADHA, N.-E. Himalayas, Cachar. 



\. b^. Underside with the outer submarginal band on hindwing narrow 



and even, 



a*. The orange spot in lower median interspace on fore- 

 wing almost confluent with the spot in continuation 

 of the discal band of hindwing. 



362. N. MIAH, N.-E. Himalayas. Khasi Hills, Chittagong, Upper Tenasserim. 



b^. The above-mentioned spot well-separated from the spot 

 below. Of larger size. 



363. N. ANANTA, Himalay.as, Sylhet, Assam, Yunan. 



b^. Upperside with the orange bands almost as broad as the black interspaces. 



364. N. VlRAJA, N.-E. Himalayas, Orissa, South India, Upper Tenasserim. 



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