58 J. N. ELIOT 



Holotype <$. East Java ; Lawang, 1897 (ex Fruhstorfer coll.) bearing a type 

 label in Fruhstorfer's handwriting reading ' N. nandina phrasylas '. 



Allotype $. Same data as holotype. 



Described from 2 <$, 2 $ East Java, 3 <$, 2 $ West Java and 1 $ Java. A single 

 female from Bali has the hind wing discal band narrower than in Javanese females. 



Fruhstorfer chose as his MS female type of phrasylas a specimen of N. nata nandina 

 Moore. In Java he failed to differentiate between N. nata, which he called ' N. 

 soma ', and N. clinia, which he called ' N. nandina ', and dealt with both species 

 under ' N. nandina nandina '. Presumably it was his intention to separate East 

 Javanese examples of his composite ' nandina ' as phrasylas, whilst retaining nandina 

 for West Javanese examples. 



N. clinia parthica Fruhstorfer stat. n. 



Neptis nandina parthica Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 317. o"? Palawan. Types Paris. 

 NepHs nandina parthica f. somula Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 317. 5*9 Palawan. ^ type Paris. 

 Neptis nandina parthica with fs. parthica Fruhstorfer and somula Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 

 1913 : 606, pi. I26f labelled ' sonula '. 



The difference between the male types of parthica and somula is very slight and 

 within the range of normal individual variation. 



Palawan. 



Neptis sappho (Pallas) 

 N. sappho sappho (Pallas) 



Papilio aceris Tatarici Lepechin, 1771 : 203, pi. 17, figs. 5, 6. Kirschdorf Usol'e (S. Russia). 



[nom. nud., since not binominal.] 

 Papilio Sappho (Heliconius) Pallas, 1771 : 471. Ad Volgam. 

 Papilio aceris Esper, 1783 : 142, pi. 81, figs. 3, 4 ; pi. 82, fig. 1. 

 Papilio aceris Fabricius, 1787 : 55. 

 Papilio lucilla Schrank, 1801 : 191. 

 Papilio plautilla Hiibner, 1805 : figs. 99, 100. 

 Neptis hylas sappho (Pallas) (syns. aceris Lepechin, flautilla [mis-spelling] Hiibner, lucilla 



Schrank) Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 286. 

 Neptis hylas sappho (Pallas) ; Stichel, 1909 ; 176, pi. 53c. 

 Neptis hylas aceris (Fabricius) (syns. lucilla Schrank, plautilla Hiibner) Stichel, 1909 : 176, 



Pi- 53e- 

 Neptis aceris (Lepechin) ab. fischeri Rebel, 191 1 : 287, pi. 7, fig. 10 q*- Herkulesbad. Type 

 BMNH. Ab. with wide white markings, fore wing streak beyond cell much elongated and 

 postdiscal spot in space 4. 



Central and S.E. Europe, S. Russia (Podolia), Siberia (Amur Basin). 



