84 NYMPIIALTP.E. NYMPHALINyE. NEPTIS. 



Another species of this fjroup, A''. w(7/rt;/<7, has been described as below from Siam.* It 

 may belong to the Rahimia group. 



360. iTeptis kulxasa, do n., n. sp. 



Habitat : Cachar, 



Expanse : ^ , i"9 ; ? , 2*0 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside black with orange markings. Foreiuiiif with a 

 broad discoidal streak bounded below by the median nervure, obscurely separated from the 

 large triangular spot beyond by two fine black lines ; a broad subapical patch well-separated 

 from a rather less broad discal one which reaches the inner margin, and is strongly constricted 

 at the fust median nervule ; a prominent submarginal somewhat lunate band, with a very 

 obscure and fine pale marginal line. Hindioiug with a broad straight even discal band, and a 

 narrower (about one-third the width) submarginal similar band ; marginal line as in forewing. 

 Underside with the ground-colour much paler, and the bands also paler, ochreous rather 

 than orange. Forezviiig marked as above. Hinchuing with an additional ochreous band at 

 the base of the costal margin, the discal and submarginal bands broader (much reducing 

 thereby the width of the band of the ground-colour between them), the outer margin broadly 

 fuscous bearing a prominent ochreous line. Female slightly paler. Foirinitigv^'i^h. the a]"iex 

 less produced. ///«;/tw«^ with the discal band narrower, the submarginal band wider than 

 in the male. Underside with the same differences as above. 



N. kuhasa differs from Upper Tenasserim specimens of A', sattanga in both sexes in the 

 submarginal band on the upperside of the hindwing being narrower, the band of the ground- 

 colour on the underside of the hindwing between the discal and submarginal ochreous bands 

 is twice as wide, and in addition the outer margin of that wing is broadly fuscous, bearing a 

 prominent ochreous line. In N. sattanga the margin is equally broadly ochreous inwardly 

 bounded by a narrow black line, the extreme margin being defined by a very fine black line. 



Mr. Wood-Mason took one male on the 29th July, and two females on the 8th August 

 at Irangmara in Cachar. 



The next four species have the bands of the underside tinted with violet, comparatively 

 slightly in N. viraja, very brightly in the other three ; the bands of the upperside are orange, 

 broad in N. viraja, much narrower in the others. 



361. Neptis radlia, Moore. 



N. radha, Moore, Horstield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 166, n. 343, pi. iva, fig. 4 (1857) ; 

 id., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p. 6, n. 9. 



Habitat : Sikkim, Bhutan, Cachar. 



Expanse : 2*9 to 3 '4 inches. 



Description : " Upperside brownish-black : markings ferruginous. Foreivhig with a 

 long discoidal streak, narrow at base, and extending to a short distance between the third and 

 second median nervules ; two small spots on costal margin, and two larger oblique spots 

 near the apex ; a large spot on disc, and an elongate spot to middle of posterior margin ; 

 marginal line pale. Hitidwhig with rather broad inner and narrower outer band, both extend- 

 ing across the abdominal margin ; a marginal line and line between the two bands pale 

 brown. Underside ferruginous-brown ; markings as above, but indistinct, owing to the 

 surface being mottled over with ashy-blue." (Mooie, 1. c. in Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C.) Female 

 differs from the male only in the ferruginous markings being broader and paler. 



* Neptis nolnna, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 105. Habitat: ChenUboon, Siam (September). 

 Expanse: 225 inches. Description : "Uppersibe dark brown, all the bands and spots rufous-orange. /77r<;- 

 w/M^ with a longitudinal band from the base to beyond the cell, with a broad band from the costal margin to 

 the anal angle curved inwards and narrower in the middle, with a narrow band round the outer margin. Hiitci- 

 w/«^ crossed by three rufous-orange bands, the first and third narrow. Underside as above, only much 

 paler in colour, with all the bands indistinctly marked." {Druce, I. c ) 



having 



Thisspecies.Tppears_tohayeonly one marginal line on the upperside of the forewing ; and is singuhr in 

 ing the discal baad of the hmdwins as well as the m,irgin,-\l Hue n.irrow. 



