52 J. N. ELIOT 



N. praslini praslini (Boisduval) 

 (Text-fig. n) 



Limenitis praslini Boisduval, 1832 : 131. Nouvelle-Irlande. 



Neptis nemeus de Niceville, 1897 : 538, text-fig. <J. New Britain. 



Neptis praslini praslini (Boisduval) (syn. nemeus de Niceville) de Niceville, 1898 : 139. 



Neptis praslini saloe Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 361. Neu-Hannover. syn. n. 



Neptis praslini praslini (Boisduval) ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 614, pi. i2$i <$. 



Neptis praslini nemeus de Niceville ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 614. 



Neptis praslini saloe Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 614. 



Bismarck Archipelago. 



Neptis nausicaa de Niceville 



N. nausicaa lyria Fruhstorfer 



Neptis nausicaa lyria Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 359, pi. 2, fig. 12 $. Waigiu. Type Paris, labelled 



' lydia 

 Neptis nausicaa lyria Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 614. 



Waigiu. 



2V. nausicaa syxosa Fruhstorfer 



Neptis nausicaa syxosa Fruhstofrer, 1908a : 358. 3* Dorey. Type Paris. 



Neptis nausicaa sparagmata Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 412. $ Tanah-Merah, S.W. Dutch New- 

 Guinea. ? var. with reduced white markings. 

 Neptis nausicaa syxosa Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 191 3 : 614. 

 Neptis nausicaa sparagmata Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 614. 



This western subspecies is locally and individually variable ; in general the 

 hind wing discal band is a little wider and outwardly more rounded and the fore 

 wing lower postdiscal band a little wider than in ssp. nausicaa. 



Western New Guinea (Dorey District, Wangaar, Wandesi, Fak Fak, Mioswar 



Is.). 



N. nausicaa nausicaa de Niceville 



(Text-figs. 9, 10) 



Neptis nausicaa de Niceville, 1897a : 537, text-fig. Stephansort. 



Neptis nausicaa nausicaa de Niceville ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 614, pi. I25f q*- 



Northern New Guinea (Eastern Geelvink Bay to Mandated Territory). 



N. nausicaa nivalis Talbot 



Neptis nausicaa nivalis Talbot, 1932 : 164. § South Dutch New Guinea, Snow Mts., Oetakwa 

 River District. Type BMNH. 



This southern subspecies has the fore wing upper postdiscal band greatly enlarged 

 in the type, but this feature is much less marked in some other examples from the 

 same district. 



Southern New Guinea (Oetakwa R., Setekwa R., Eilanden R.). 



