NYMPHALIN^. (Group LIMENITINA.) 219 



Ne2}tis Martahana, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 310, S {wet-season). 

 Neptis Nilgirica, Moore, Juurn. As. See. Bengal (1888), p. 353. 



Wet-season brood (Plate 271, fig. 1, la, b, c? ? )• 



Imago. — Male. TJpperside dark fuliginous-black ; markings bluish-white. 

 Cilia alternated with white. Forennng with a narrow discoidal bluish-white streak, 

 increasing in width to a broad truncate end, near which it is anteriorly more or less 

 indented ; beyond is a widely separated large broad triangular discocellular spot, 

 a transverse curved series of six spots disposed in pairs, the two upper oval and 

 placed obliquely before the apex, the next pair on middle of the disc between the 

 median veinlets, its upper one somewhat elongated and oval, the lower larger and 

 generally of a broader triangularly-oval shape, and disposed obliquely downward 

 and outward ; the third pair disposed obliquely inward, its upper one being 

 extremely small and slender, and even sometimes entirely absent, the lower one 

 elongated and extending iuward to a point along middle of the posterior margin ; 

 beyond is a very obscure pale brownish slender sinuous inner subraarginal line, then 

 a submarginal broken row of very small decreasing lunate white spots, followed by 

 a marginal obscure slender pale brownish lunular line. Hindwing crossed by a 

 broad inner discal bluish-white band ending anteriorly in a very small spot above 

 the lower subcostal veinlet, this upper spot being sometimes absent, and a less 

 prominent submarginal narrower macular band, between which is a very obscure 

 medial discal slender pale brownish lunular line, and beyond a marginal similar line ; 

 the costal border to below the subcostals glossed with silvery pinkish-grey. 

 Underside dark brownish-ferruginous, in some almost purplish-chestnut-brown ; 

 markings as above, but all more prominent, somewhat broader, and all, including 

 the marginal lines, tinted purplish-white. Forewing also with the posterior border 

 from the lower median veinlet glossed with silvery purplish -grey. Hindwing 

 also with a narrow purplish- white basal costal band and a broad subbasal radiating 

 fascia. 



Female. Upperside. Ground-colour duller black, markings the same as in 

 male, except that the cell-streak is somewhat narrower and less indented, the spot 

 beyond more elongatedly-triangular. Underside as in the male. 



Body and palpi above fuliginous-black ; thorax and palpi beneath, forelegs, 

 middle and hind femora greyish-white ; middle and hind tibise and tarsi, and abdomen 

 beneath pale greyish-ochreous ; antenuse black above, tip reddish. 



Expanse, (? 2j^ to 2;-o, ? 3 inches. 



Dry-season brood (Plate 271, fig. Ic, d, e, (J ? ). 



Male and female. Generally smaller than the wet-season brood. Upperside 

 with markings the same, but those on the forewing comparatively larger and nearer 



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