344 



>"ymphalid;e. 



sinuous ; cell open ; upper and middle discocellulars subequal, 

 very short ; vein 10 out of 7 well beyond base of latter, 11 out of 

 subcostal, free. Hind wing : costa arched ; apex distinct ; termen 

 arched and in the typical form scalloped ; dorsum arched ; tornus 

 rounded; cell open. Antennae slender; club long, narrow, gradual; 

 palpi as in Neptis, with lax loose scales and long porrect hairs ; 

 eyes naked. Male sex-mark large patches of specialized dark scales 

 on the costal margin of the uppersicle of the hind wing and on the 

 dorsal margin of the underside of the fore wing where the two 

 wings overlap each other. 



Key to the forms o/ Rahinda. 



a. Upperside hind wing- : subbasal and postdiscal 



bands not coalescing along dorsal margin. 

 a . Underside irrorated with numerous trans- 

 verse short brown striae. 

 a 2 . Upperside hind wing : subbasal band 

 ochraceous orange. 

 a 3 . Upperside fore wing : outer margin of 

 both anterior and posterior portions of 



discal markings evenly curved it. hordonia, p. 344. 



b 3 . Upperside fore wing ; outer margin of 

 both anterior and posterior portions 

 of discal markings not evenly curved, 



sinuous Race sinuata, p. 346. 



b 2 . Upperside hind wing : subbasal band 



white R. cnacalis, p. 346. 



b' Underside not irrorated with transverse striae. 

 a 2 . Upperside fore wing : subterminal trans- 

 verse line forming two wide curves .... It. paraka, p. 346. 

 b 2 . Upperside fore wing : subterminal- trans- 

 verse line parallel to terminal margin, 

 interrupted in middle, but not curved . . R. aurelia, p. 347. 



b. Upperside hind wing- : subbasal and postdiscal 



bands coalescing along dorsal margin R. assamica, p. 347. 



358. Rahinda hordonia (PI. IX, fig. 71), Stall (Papilio), Cramer's 

 Pap. Exot. Suppl. 1791, pi. 33, figs. 4, 4D ; de N. (Neptis) Butt. 

 Ind. ii, 1886, p. 78 : Davidson, Bell ty Aitken (Neptis), Jour. 

 Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. x, 1896, p. 250, pi. 2, figs. 1, la, lb, 

 larva & pupa; Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 30, pi. 300, 

 figs. 1, 1 a-1 f, larva & pupa, <$ $ . 



Neptis plagiosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 830; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 

 1886, p. 79. 



Race sinuata. 



Neptis sinuata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 136 ; de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 

 1886, p. 79 ; Moore (Rahinda), Lep. Cei/l. i, 1881, p. 56, pi. 28, 

 figs. 3, Sa ; id. (Rahinda) Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 33, pi. 301, 

 figs. 1,1 a, tf$. 



Wet-season form. — $ 2 • Upperside black with orange markings. 

 Fore wing : discoidal streak broad, anteriorly twice indented, at 

 apex extending into base of interspace 3 ; posterior discal spots 



