90 NYMPHALID/E. NYMPHALIN^. NEPTIS. 



♦' Allied to N. amba, specimens of which, from the same locality, are under examination." 

 (Moore, I. c) 



The markings of N. amba are very wide, and pure white ; those of N. cartica are narrow 

 and tinged with fuliginous, and there is no difficulty in distinguishing between them. 

 N. cartica, however, is very close to N. vikasi, from which species on the upperside it differs in 

 having the markings less fuliginous, especially the discal band which is pure white, and broader, 

 the apex of the forewing also is somewhat less produced. On the underside the ground-colour 

 is ferruginous rather than fuliginous-brown. On both upper and undersides the ground-colour 

 is suffused darker in each interspace between the white bands, forming rows of diffused dark 

 macular bands. In A\ vikasi these dark bands are even more prominent. TV, cartica is rather 

 a rare species, but occurs in Sikkim from April to October. 



372. NeptiS cartlCOideS, Moore. 



A', cariicoides, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 309. 



Habitat : Darjiling, Naga Hills, Yunan. 



Expanse : 2 inches (^Moore) ; 2 '8 to 3*0 inches. 



Description : " Allied to N, cartica. Male differs from the same sex of that species 

 in being somewhat smaller and of a fuliginous-brown colour, not black ; markings similar, 

 but of a pale fuliginous tint, and, therefore, less prominent ; the subbasal band on the 

 hindwing, and the lower discal spots on the forrmng only being whitish. Underside of a 

 brighter chestnut colour, and the bands less prominent." (^Moore, 1. c.) 



A male specimen of a Neptis from the Naga hills was sent to Mr. Moore for identifica- 

 tion ; he returned it to the Indian Museum, Calcutta, labelled "^. ? carticoides, larger than 

 type." It agrees very fairly with the description above, but is much larger in size. From 

 iV. cartica it may be distinguished on the underside by the forewing lacking the white 

 irregular line between the discal curved series of spots and the inner of the two submarginal 

 lines, and by the hindwing having an additional subbasal streak and two submarginal whitish 

 lines, in N, cartica there is only one. On both sides of the forewing also N. carticoides has 

 the discal curved series of spots more diffused and elongated and completed by the addition 

 of a spot in the lower discoidal interspace. This extra spot on the forewing and the additional 

 white svibbasal band on the underside of the hindwing are also characteristic of N. amba, to 

 which species N. carticoides is nearest allied, but differs in having the markings narrower and 

 tinged with fuliginous. Mr. Otto Moller has a single male in his collection from Sikkim ; 

 there are two males from the Naga hills, and one obtained by the Yunan expedition in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta. The latter is the specimen probably that Mr. Moore named .iV. 

 amba in " Anderson's Anat. and Zool. Researches," p. 924. 



In the next species all the bands are fuliginous brown on the upperside, and the 

 underside has no trace of violet tinting. 



373- Neptis fuligiaosa, Moore. 

 N.fuliginosa, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 310. 



Habitat : Moulmein, Mergui. 



Expanse: i "9 inches. 



Description : " Male. Allied to A^, ebusa, Felder [from Mindoro, one of the Philip- 

 pines]. Upperside fuliginous olive-brown. Forr^oing with fuliginous olive-white slender 

 discoidal streak, transverse discal interrupted macular band, and two slender submarginal 

 lunular lines. Hindtving with a broad subbasal and a discal band, a narrower less distinct 

 slender intervening medial line, and an outer marginal line. Underside paler fuliginous-brown, 

 with markings as above, but more prominent and whiter, the hindwing having also an 

 additional subbasal band." (Moore, 1, c.)' 



