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borders ; the inner belt of hindimng wider and more incurved towards the costa ; the 

 outer belt farther from the outer margin, consisting of seven instead of six spots ; the 

 pale brown submarginal stripe narrower and farther from the margin. Underside golden- 

 brown, with white bands, stripes and spots as above, excepting that the lunular sub- 

 marginal series of forewing and the discal macular belt of hindwing are wider, with their 

 divisions less distinctly separated ; two whitish stripes close to the outer margin, 

 interrupted upon the forewing by a patch of the ground-colour upon the second median 

 interspace, the outer one diffused and interrupted a second time at apex, the inner 

 stripe of forewing interrupted by the veins ; the undulated pale brown lunulated stripe 

 of the upperside replaced by a whitish stripe ; base of costa orange. Hindwing with the 

 base, a subcostal streak near the base, and a nearly straight stripe through the second 

 brown belt (beyond the broad white belt), whitish, Body below white. Tibia: and tarsi of 

 second and third pairs of legs testaceous." 



" A well-marked form of this puzzling group, quite distinct from any named species in 

 Mr. Moore's collection or that of the British Museum." {Butler, 1. c.) 



I have never seen this species, nor did Mr. Wood-Mason obtain it during the summer 

 months he collected in Cachar. 



395- Neptis kallaura, Moore. 



N. kallaura, Moore, Trans. Ent. See. Lond., 1881, p. 309. 



Habitat: Nilgiris ; Kallaur Road, Travancore, 1,200 feet, April; Mynall, 2,000 feet. 



Expanse : ^, 2*i ; 9 » 2'35 inches. 



Description : '* Allied to N. adipala. Markings of upperside pale yellow ; foreiuing 

 with the discoidal streak and its terminal pointed spot more rounded at the edges where 

 divided by the disco-cellular vein ; discal series of spots smaller and more oval ; hindwing 

 with comparatively narrower inner band and broader outer band." (^Moore, 1. c.) 



There is a single female specimen of this species named by INIr. Moore from Trevandrum 

 in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. It is very close indeed to IV. adipala, even if it can be 

 considered specifically distinct. The markings are slightly tinged with palest yellow, the 

 other characters given seem trifling. Mr. W. F. Hampson has sent me three specimens 

 taken in the Nilgiris, they have the bands very irregular in width. 



The next species differs from the preceding group by having the discoidal streak broad. 

 On the underside the bands of the hindwing are very faintly defined outwardly with black. 

 The bands of the upperside are sometimes sullied with fuliginous, sometimes pure white. 



396. ITeptis susnita, i\ioore. 



N. susruta, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1872, p. 563, pi. xxxii, fig. 4. 



Habitat : Sikkim, Bhutan, Cachar, Sylhet, Assam, Khasi Hills, Chitlagong, Upper 

 Tenasserim. 



Expanse : 2 'o to 2*4 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside brownish black, /^^rraw^o with ferruginous [? fuli- 

 ginous] white narrow discoidal and attenuated contiguous streak ; curved discal band of small 

 and widely separated spots, an ill-defined black-bordered submarginal lunular line. Hindwing 

 with white inner band, and ferruginous [? fuliginous] white outer narrow lunular curved band. 

 Underside deep ferruginous ; markings prominent, and suffused with pale ferruginous 

 [? fuliginous] ; those of the hindwing similar to N. soma, but narrower." ^Moore, I. c.) 



There are four specimens named by Mr. Moore of this species from Sikkim, Assam and 

 Upper Tenasserim in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. As a rule they average smaller than 

 A^. soma, all the markings are wider and more prominent, especially the discoidal streak in the 

 forewing ; in many specimens they are tinged with greenish-yellow as in N. nandina. 



The next two species have the banns and spots of the upperside very wide and prominent, 

 in this respect allying them to N, amba, from which species, however, they differ in many 

 important particulars. ■ . , ; 



