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on a fuliginous background. Hind wing : the terminal margin 

 beyond the line o£ postdiscal spots completely and strongly 

 suffused with lilacine white, traversed by an outer postdiscal and 

 a sabterminal series of black lunular markings. It is quite possible 

 this is only a casual aberration. 



338. Neptis jumbah, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. 1. C. i, 1857, p. 167, 

 pi. 4 a, fig. 5 2 5 de N - B utt - Ind - "» 1886 > P- 106 '■> Davidson $ 

 Aitken, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. y, 1890, p. 273 ; Moore (Andra- 

 pana), Lep. Ind. iii, 1896-99, p. 220, pi. 272, figs. 1, 1 a, larva & 

 pupa, Ib-lf, tf$. 

 Neptis jumba, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 55, pi. 28, figs. 2, 2 a, <5 , 

 2 b, larva & pupa. 



d 2 • Somewhat resembles JS T . columella, but differs as follows : — 

 Upper side fuliginous black, the interspaces between the veins 



deeper black, very conspicuous in 

 certain lights, particularly so between 

 the subbasal and postdiscal markings 

 on the hind wing ; the white mark- 

 ings suffused with very pale bluish 

 green ; the posterior two spots of 

 the discal series on the fore wing 

 subequal ; the postdiscal macular band 

 on the hind w T ing with a tendency to 

 obsolescence, varying from a narrow 

 series of white lunules to a somewhat 

 diffuse transverse narrow pale band. 

 On the underside the ground-colour 

 is paler than in _ZV. columella, the in- 

 terspaces between the veins conspi- 

 cuously much darker ; the postdiscal and subterminal markings on 

 both fore and hind wings diffuse and very ill-defined. JV. jumbah 

 can besides be at once recognized by the discal transverse series of 

 comparatively large dark brown spots. In the $ the spots on the 

 fore wing and the subbasal band on the hind wing are com- 

 paratively broader than they are in the S ; in the dry-season 

 form of both sexes, as compared with the w T et-season form, often 

 conspicuously broader. Antennas, head, thorax and abdomen as 

 in N. columella. 



Exp. S 2 62-70 mm. (2-45-2-75"). 



Hob. Bengal; Southern India, the Nilgiris, Canara, Travan- 

 core ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; the Andamans. 



Specimens from the Andamans have the lilacine white ter- 

 minal markings on the underside very broad and diffuse. 



Larva. " Somewhat fusiform, anterior and anal segments nar- 

 rowed, the middle segments being thickened laterally, armed with 

 two dorsal, long, anteriorly-divergent fleshy processes on the fourth 

 segment, and two shorter posteriorly-divergent similar processes 

 on the twelfth segment, also two very short dorsal spiny tubercles 

 on the third and sixth segments. Head cleft and pointed at the 



Neptis jumbah. 



