100 NYMPIIALID.E. NYMPIIALIN^. NEPTIS. 



above N. emodes can only be distinguished from N. astola by the markings being smaller 

 (this however does not hold good even in the specimens Mr. Moore has named), and sullied 

 instead of pure white (this character is also variable). Under these circumstances it appears 

 to me that the latter of these names should be sunk as a synonym, as there is apparently no 

 character by which they can be separated. 



The next three species are distinguished by having the white bands tinted with bluish on 

 both upper and undersides ; the markings are as in A', astola, the bands being rather narrow. 



3S8. Neptis khasiana, Moore. 



N. khasiana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 562, pi. xxxii, fig. 7. 



Habitat : Bhutan, Khasia Hills. 



Expanse : 2*25 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside dark fuliginous black. .^(jme//«^ with an elongated 

 bluish-white narrow discoidal streak, and small terminal contiguous spot, two oblique 

 subapical spots, and a row of four spots to middle of hind margin ; an indistinct submarginal 

 row of very small spots, each side of which has a pale wavy line. Hindwiiig with a narrow 

 subbasal bluish-white band, and a submarginal row of five small spots. Cilia alternated with 

 white. Underside dark brown ; markings as above, but more prominently bluish-white. 

 Hindioing with a white band along base of anterior margin, and a pale median and marginal 

 lunular line." (Moore, 1. c.) The two latter lines are faintly visible on the upperside. 



This very distinct species has all the markings extremely small, smaller than in any other 

 species known to me, and distinctly tinged with bluish. The shade of the ground-colour on the 

 underside is unusual, being a dead hair brown. There are two specimens in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, obtained from Buxa, Bhutan. 



389 Neptis magadha, Felder. 



N. magadha, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. iii, p. 427, n. 675 (1867). 



Habitat : North India, 



Expanse : Not given. 



Description: "Female. Upperside as in M. nala, but ih^ forewing with all the 

 white spots smaller, especially the two near the internal margin, the lowest subapical spot 

 more separated from the two upper ones, the innermost submarginal streak less wavy. Uitid- 

 wing with the bands narrower, the outer one more macular, the streaks more obsolete than in 

 N, nata. Underside more ferruginous than A^, nata, with the spots and bands of the 

 upperside but larger, opalescent, the streaks opalescent-white. Hindiving ixora the costal 

 lobe to the costal nervure white, the greyish subcostal fascicle absent." 



" Smaller, and the wings shorter, than N. nata, Moore." (Felder, 1. c.) 



A comparison of the types of A^. khasiana and N. juagadha will probably show that these 

 two species are identical. 



390. Neptis nata, iMoore. 



N. nata, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 168, n. 346, pi. \\a, fig. 6 

 (1857) ; idem, id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p. 10, n. 22 ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 154, n. 7, pi. xviii, 

 fig. I (1883). 



Habitat : Mergui, Malacca, Singapore, Borneo. 



Expanse : 2'2 to 2'3 inches. 



Description : " Sexes alike. Upperside deep black, markings very white. Forewing 

 with discoidal streak long, in two portions ; curved series of spots small. Hindwing, with 

 the bands narrow. Underside dusky-brown, inner band of hindwing not extending to anterior 

 margin ; a marginal line only between outer band and exterior margin, the submarginal line 

 being obsolete." (^Moore, 1. c. in Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C.) 



This species may be known from N. khasiana by the bands and spots being larger, 

 especially the submarginal ones on the hindwing, which in A', nata are almost confluent and 

 linear, being divided only by the nervules ; they are also but very slightly tinged with 

 bluish. Oa the underside the discal band of the hindwing in this species and in A^. khasiana 



