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also both sexes from the Khasias. Colonel Swinhoe has a series of both the dry and 

 "wet-season form from Cherra Punji and the Khasias. A female of the wet form 

 from Kathapa, Burma, is in Col. Adamson's collection. Mr. de Niceville records it 

 from " Sikkim, Sibsagar, Upper Assam, Naga and Khasia Hills, and Upper 

 Tenasserim " {I.e. p. 102). Specimens of the dry-season form, from Tilin Yaw, 

 taken in April, and of the wet form, taken in December, January, and March, and 

 Karen Hills in December, by Capt. E. Y. Watson, the dry form from Upper Tenas- 

 serim, taken by Mr. J. Wood-Mason, the wet form from Atavan Valley, Burma, taken 

 in February by Capt. C. T. Bingham, and also the type of gononata from Malacca, 

 are in the British Museum. Dr. J. Anderson took it on Thaing Island, Mergui, in 

 January. Males of the dry-season form from Gunong Ijang, Perak, are in Mr. W. 

 Rothschild's collection, and a male of the wet form from Perak in Col. Swinhoe's 

 collection. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 285, figs. 1, la, is from the type 

 male Adipala, and figs, lb, c, the female, both being the dry-season form ; figs. Id, 

 e, f, g, are typical gononata, the wet- season form, from Burma. 



NEPTIS NATA. 



Neptis Nata, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East India Company, i. p. 168, pi. 4a, fig. 6, S (1857) ; Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 10. Distant, Ehop. Malayana, p. 154, pi. 18, fig. 1, c? (1883). de Niceville, 



Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 100 (1886). 

 Neptis Duryodana, var. Distant, I.e. p. 155, pi. 16, fig. 15, J . 

 Neptis fulva, Pryer et Cator, British North Borneo Herald, Oct. 1894, p. 260. 



Dry-season brood (Plate 286, fig. 1, la, b, c, cJ ? ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside deep purpurescent-black ; markings bluish- 

 white, very prominent, and with sharply-defined edges ; cilia alternated with white. 

 Forewing with the cell-streak broadly truncate at end, the broad discocellular spot 

 beyond elongated to an acute point ; discal curved series of spots of moderate size, 

 the subapical rather elongated and oval, the lower four disposed linearly-oblique, 

 the upper one small, oval, and placed very near the submarginal lunules, the two 

 lowest smallest and narrow, the second being broad ; a submarginal row of small 

 white lunular spots, which are narrowest in the female, an inner submarginal 

 slender sinuous obscure pale line, and a marginal obscure lunular line. Eindtving 

 with a somewhat narrow inner -discal band, which ends at the upper subcostal vein, 

 and a narrower outer-discal macular band ; a medial-discal obscure pale slender 

 lunular line, and a marginal even line ; base of costa in male broadly glossy silvery- 



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