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clavate cell-streak and narrow elongated pointed lobate spot beyond ; discal series of 

 spots small and more or less rounded, the submarginal row of small lunate spots 

 more or less apparent and incomplete ; an inner submarginal sinuous pale line and a 

 marginal line obscure. Eindiving with, a somewhat narrow inner discal band which 

 is narrowest at both ends ; a narrower outer-discal quadrate macular band ; the 

 medial discal and marginal pale line very obscure. Underside brownish-ferruginous ; 

 markings as above, with dusky edgings ; the cell-streak and discal band on both 

 wings pale yellow, the other markings on both wings and the basal streaks on hind- 

 wing being pale lilacine-grey; the discal band on hind wing narrowest at each end, 

 and the medial-discal slender line bent upward to the costa. Body and palpi above 

 black ; thorax and palpi beneath and legs greyish-white ; abdomen beneath 

 ferruginous ; antennae black above, reddish beneath. 

 Expanse <S 2^^, ? 2^^ to 2j^o inches. 



Dry-season brood (Plate 281, fig. 2b, ? ). 



Female. Upperside ; markings yellowish- white. Foreiving with the cell-streak 

 broader than in wet-season brood ; discal spots more elongated, the middle pair more 

 truncate exteriorly. Hindwing with broader inner-discal band ; the outer band 

 similar. Underside ; ground-colour the same ; markings broader as above, otherwise 

 as in wet-season. 



Expanse, 2^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Travancoi^e ; Mysore; S. India. 



Distribution. — The type specimens were taken by Mr. Bourdillon on the Kallaur 

 road, at 1200 feet elevation, Travancore, in April, and also at Mynall, 2700 feet 

 elevation. A female, in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is recorded from Trevandrum 

 (Butt. Ind. 103). A female of the dry-season brood, taken by Capt. E. Y. "Watson 

 at Kathlekan, Kadur, Mysore, in November, is in the British Museum. Mr. H. S. 

 Ferguson records it as rare in Travancore. Taken on the Hills near Mynall Estate 

 and also on the high range (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 8). 



Our illustrations of this species on Plate 281, fig. 2, 2a, represents the female of 

 wet-season, and fig. 2, b, the female of dry-season brood. 



NEPTIS CLINIA. 



Neptia CUnia, Moore, Proc. Zoo]. Soc. 1872, p. 563, pi. 32, fig. 6, ^ {dry -season). 

 Neptis Mananda, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 586, pi. 58, fig. 4, ? {wet-season), de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 101 (1886). 



Dry-season brood (Plate 282, fig. 1, la, h, c, S ? )• 

 Imago. — Male and female, Upperside olivescent-black, with blacker inter- 



