NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALTN^. NEPTIS. 83 



wing marked as above, but the colour much paler and the dark portions much narrower. 

 Body above rich dark brown, the thorax with some frontal yellow markings, and the disc of 

 the abdomen beyond base much suffused with the same colour ; body beneath and legs more 

 or less concolourous with wings. " (Dislant, I.e.) 



"This species agrees with an example in the Banksian cabinet, but net with the Fab- 

 rician type ; there are two medial brown curved lines across the underside of the hindwing, 

 partly or wholly filled in with paler brown." (Butler, I.e.) 



There is a single specimen of this species taken by Captain C. T. Bingham in the Donat 

 Range in Upper Tenasserim in January in Major Marshall's collection. A variety of it differing 

 principally from the typical form in being smaller, and the markings on the underside darker, 

 has been described as a distinct species under the name of N. dorelia, Butler,* 



A species apparently allied to N, tiga (but which may however belong to the Rahinda 

 group) has been described under the name M. camboja from Cambodia, as below.t 



359- NeptiS Sattaaga, Moore. 

 Rahinda sattanga, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond-, 1881, p. 311. 



Habitat : British Burma. 



Expanse : 175 to 2'i5 inches. 



Description: "Female. Allied to the Malayan /?. [=iV^,] a'(7r^//(7,+ Butler. Upper- 

 SIDE blacker, the markings paler, but more sharply defined. Forewing with the discoidal 

 streak entire, the subapical patch of equal width with that beneath it ; submarginal band 

 slender and lunular. Hindwing with only two bands, both of which are straight, the 

 submarginal band narrow and only half the width of the inner band ; no marginal line." 

 (Moore, 1. c. ) 



In the above description Mr. Moore states that dorelia belongs to the group of Nepiis to 

 which he has applied the name Rahinda, but Mr. Distant places it with those species which 

 have the "second subcostal nervule of anterior wings emitted at extremity of cell," and 

 therefore it belongs to the typical group of Neptis. N. sattanga appears to differ chiefly 

 from N. tiga in the absence of the marginal line on the upperside of the hindwing in the male, 

 it is present but less distinct in the female. 



There are numerous specimens of a species of Neptis taken by Dr. Anderson in the cold 

 weather in the Mergui Archipelago which agree exactly with Mr. Moore's description of 

 N. sattanga, and to which species they probably belong. The second subcostal nervule is 

 given off at the end of the cell in these specimens, so they belong to the typical group 

 of Neptis. There is also a male of this species taken in April in the Upper Thoungyeen 

 forests and another in Tenasserim in November, in Major Marshall's collection. 



* Neptis dorelia, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 542, n. 7, pi. Ixv'ii, fig. 3 

 (1877); A'^ tiga, var. dorelia, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 152, pi. xvii, fig. 3 (1883) ; Papilio heliodore, 

 Fabricius {nee Cramer, nee Moore), Mant. Ins., vol. ii, p. 52, n. 516 (1787) ; idem, id., Ent. Syst., vol. 

 iii, pt. i, p. 1.30, n. 401 (1793) ; Neptis heliodore, Butler, Cat. Fab. Lep. B. M., p. 62, n. 4 (1869) ; A', helio- 

 dora, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 343, n. 2. Habitat: Malacca, Singapore. Expansr : I'j 

 to I '6 inches. Description: " The type of the Fabrician species differs from the e.xamples of N. tiga in 

 the Horsfield Cabinet from Java in having a single instead of a double medial arched line across the UndbR- 

 slDE of the hindwing ; this line is, in some examples, slightly thickened. " (Butler, 1. c.) 



\ Neptis camboja, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 136. Habitat: Cambodia. Expanse: I'e 

 inches. Description : " Male. \ive^v.i\\ye.—foreiuing with a pale ferruginous broad longitudinal band front 

 the base to beyond the cell, a broad oblique subapical and a constricted lower band ; also two very narrow 

 indistinct ferruginous marginal lines. Hindwing with a broad ferruginous transverse discal, and narrow slightly 

 curved submarginal band ; also a single very narrow and indistinct ferruginous marginal line. Underside 

 pale yellowish ferruginous ; bands as above, but indistinctly defined." 



" Allied to A'', dindinga, Butler, from Malacca : also allied to A''. Jieliodore,* Fabricius, from Siam 

 (the type specimen of which is in the Banksian Cabinet in the British Museum), but differs above on the fore- 

 wing in the discoidal streak not extending over the median nervure, and in the submarginal band on the hindwing 

 being narrower. On the underside these diflferences also occur, and the dark interspace between the bands on 

 the hindwing is also narrower. " (Moore, I.e.) 



* Mr. Distant in his Rhop. Malay., gives A'', heliodore, Fabricius, as a synonyn of A^. dorelia, Butler 

 A^. heliodore, Cramer (Pap. Ex., vol. iii, pi. ccxii, figs. E, F (1779), is a black Neptisyi\\.\i white markings froni 

 Amboyna. In his Index, Cramer spells this name Iicliodora, but in the text it is given both as heliodore and 

 heliodora. 



\ See feet note above. 



