36 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



RAHINDA PARAKA. 



Neptis Paraha, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 2nd ser. i. p. 542, pi. 68, fig. 2, ? (June, 1879). de 



Nice'ville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 80 (1886). 

 Neptis Perdica, Distant, Rliop. Malayana, p. 150, pi. 17, fig. 2, ? (1883). 

 Neptis (Rahinda) Pardka, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 407. 

 Neptis Daliana, Kheil, Rhop. Nias, p. 24, pi. 5, fig. 27 (1884). 



Dry-season brood (Plate 302, fig. 2, 2a, b, c? ? ). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich dark ochreous-brown, almost black ; cilia greyish- 

 brown. Forewing with a reddish-ochreous broad discoidal streak, which is indented 

 at upper end of cell and extends irregularly below the median vein from the base ; 

 a contiguous subapical broad band, its outer edge evenly curved and its inner edge 

 irregularly sinuous ; a lower-discal oblique broad band, constricted in its middle, its 

 upper portion somewhat rounded and pointed anteriorly inward — the point in some 

 specimens touching the outer lower angle of the discoidal streak ; beyond are two 

 slender duller reddish-ochreous submargiual wavy lines, the first line angled inwards 

 at the middle between the discal bands, followed by a less-defined similar outer 

 marginal line. Eindiving with a broad reddish-ochreous inner-discal even-edged 

 band, and a narrower outer-discal curved band, followed by a slender duller ochreous 

 submarginal line ; an obscure pale line also apparent between the two discal bands ; 

 subcostal patch of brown scales similarly disposed to that in Honlonia, Underside 

 with the markings yellowish-ochreous and obscurely defined, the intervening ground- 

 colour between the markings being obscure brownish-ochreous, the markings on the 

 hindwing having slightly defined blackish-edges. Foreiving also with the posterior 

 base below the cell broadly glossy violet-grey and enclosing an elongated brown 

 patch of ? glandular scales extending above and below the submedian. Hindwing 

 also with the costal base slightly yellowish-ochreous, the slightly-defined darker 

 interspace between it and the discal band being obscurely marked by a short 

 inwardly-oblique blackish bar situated between the discal interspace of the costal 

 and subcostal vein, also a similar outer bar below the subcostals. 



Female. Upperside markings as in male, but somewhat narrower, and all with 

 more shai'ply-defined edges. Underside with the markings somewhat more defined 

 than in male, the intervening ground-colour being more dusky and greyish-ochreous. 

 On the forewing is a very slightly defined blackish-speckled longitudinal bar within 

 the upper basal area of the cell, followed by an outwardly -oblique shorter similar bar 

 on the discocellular veinlets, and a longer oblique bar beyond. Hindwing- also with 

 the two subbasal short oblique bars more distinctly black than in the male, the lower 

 one being continued brokenly to the abdominal margin. Body and palpi above 

 ochreous-brown ; tegulse and abdomen speckled with ochreous scales, forming on the 



