234 LEPIDOPTEBA INBIGA. 



submarginal row of small white spots is complete and very prominent. On the 

 hindwing, the inner discal band is broader, but the outer discal macular band is 

 generally narrower, and with wider vein intersections ; marginal whitish, slender line 

 lunular. Underside brighter ferruginous than in JV^. Varmona ; white markings as 

 above, prominent, and black-edged, the ordinary medial discal lunular line on 

 hindwing being very slender and obscure, in some obsolescent ; the marginal 

 lunular lines very prominent and rather broad. 

 Expanse, t? 2i^ to 2j^, ? 2^) to 2jpo inches. 



Wet-season brood (Plate 278, fig. 1, d, e, f, g, c? ? ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside with all the markings narrower, smaller, 

 shorter, and less prominent than in the dry-season brood. Foretoing with the 

 discocellular triangular spot comparatively narrower, tlie discal series of spots half, 

 or, in some, less than half the size. Hindiving with, the inner discal band half the 

 width, the submarginal row of spots also narrower and more lunular. Underside 

 duller ferruginous ; the white markings smaller and narrower, as above. 



Expanse, <? 2 to 2^q, ? 2^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Nicobar Islands. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — We possess numerous specimens of both sexes of the dry-season 

 form, taken on the Islands of Nankouri, Kamorta, and Katchall, and of the wet- 

 season brood from Pulokondull, which we received from ]Mrs. P. de Eoepstorff, 

 Specimens of the dry-season form, from the island of Trinkat, are also in Mr. W. 

 Rothschild's collection. Mr. de Niceville records it also from the islands of Takoin, 

 Kar Mcobar, and Great Mcobar. 



NEPTIS MAHENDRA. 



Neptis Mahendra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1872, p. 560, pi. 32, fig. 3, (J . de Niceville, Butt, of India, 



ii. p. 104 (1886). 

 Neptis Ambigua et Eimalaijica, Pelder MS. (Coll. Rothschild). 



Dry-season brood (Plate 279, fig. 1, la, b, c, (J ? ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside black ; markings white, prominent. 

 Foretoing with the cell-streak broad at its end and very slightly indented with black 

 scales near upper end, triangular spot beyond very broad and obtuse, widely 

 separated ; discal series of spots large and broad, separated into three distinct 

 portions, the subapical widening on the costa, the two median spots of nearly equal 

 size and superposed outwardly, as in N. Leucothoe, Cram., submarginal row of small 

 white spots medially interrupted, the upper series rounded, the lower lunular; inner 



