338 NYMPHALTDJE. 



350. Neptis vikasi, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. 1829, pi. 5, 

 figs. 2, 2 a. 



Race pseudovikasi. 



Neptis pseudovikasi, Moore (Bimbisara), Lep. 2nd. ii ; 1886, p. 7, 

 pi. 291, figs. 1, lff-lc, 6 2- 



Race pseudovikasi, Moore. — 6 2 • Upperside very dark brown 

 with fuliginous-white markings. Fore wing : discoidal streak 

 long and narrow, much longer than in N. harita, preapically 

 notched by the point of a pale black- 

 bordered subcostal lunule as in that 

 form ; the spots of the discal series in 

 interspaces 1 a and 3 obsolescent, the 

 intervening two outwardly truncate ; 

 the anterior spots of the same series 

 elongate, narrow, placed very obliquely 

 to the costa and in a curve ; the trans- 

 verse postdiscal series consists of short 

 lines in the interspaces, inwardly bor- 

 dered by a series of obliquely placed 

 similar short pale lines. Hind wing : 

 Fig- 62. sub basal and postdiscal bands narrow, 



Neptis pseudovikasi. \. discal and sub terminal bands more or 

 less obsolescent. Underside purpures- 

 cent brown, the markings as on the upperside but broader and 

 whiter suffused with pale purple ; the discal pale band on the 

 hind wing outwardly bordered by a broad band of very dark 

 brown. Antenme, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown ; the 

 palpi, thorax and abdomen beneath somewhat paler. 

 Exp. <3 2 66-74 mm. (2-61-2-82"). 

 Rah. Sikhiin ; Bhutan ; the hills of Assam. 



351. Neptis Miginosa, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 310; de N. 

 Butt. 2nd, ii, 1886, p. 90; Moore (Pandasana), Lep. Ind. iv, 

 1899-1900, p. 12, pi. 293, tigs. 1, la-l&, d 2 • 

 Neptis thamala, Moore, Jour. Linn. Soc., Zool. xxi, 1889, p. 36 ; 

 pi. 3, fig. 1. 



Wet-season form. — S 2- Uppetside fuliginous brown, markings 

 much paler brown, or brownish white. Fore wing with a non- 

 indented, entire, somewhat narrow discoidal streak ; an ill-defined 

 lunular mark above it just beyond middle, and two elongate spots 

 above its apex ; a discal curved series of spots each longer than 

 broad; the spot in interspace 4 small; an irregularly sinuous 

 postdiscal broken line, curved sharply inwards at interspace 4 and 

 again outwards in interspace 3 ; an inner subterminal straighter 

 transverse line, interrupted at interspace 4 by a more or 

 less inwardly conical spot. ; an outer subterminal slender line. 

 Hind wing with transverse subbasal and postdiscal bands com- 

 paratively broad, and transverse discal and inner subterminal 

 bands narrower ; also a very ill-defined outer subterminal line. 



