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The ground colour of the under surface is richer and redder and the white markings 

 are narrower in the dry season than in the wet season form, a reversal of the usual 

 trend of seasonal variation. 



Western, Central and S.E. China, Hainan, Hong Kong. 



N. hylas luculenta Fruhstorfer 



Neptis hylas luculenta Fruhstorfer, 1907a : 160. Ishigaki and Formosa. 

 Neptis hylas luculenta Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 601, pi. 126c 



Neptis hylas luculenta Fruhstorfer ; Shirdzu, i960 : 214, pi. 46, figs. 408-410 <J$, text-fig. 241 

 <J genitalia. 



Formosa, Ryu Kyu Is. 



N. hylas kamarupa Moore 



Neptis kamarupa Moore, 1874 : 570. (J$ Assam. 2 (J, 3 9 syntypes Oxford. 



Neptis adara Moore, 1878b : 830. q 9 Upper Tenasserim. syn. n. Types BMNH. Wet 



season form. 

 Neptis meetana Moore, 1878b : 830. <$$ Upper Tenasserim. syn. n. Types BMNH. Dry 



season form. 

 Neptis adara Moore (syns. meetana Moore, mamaja Butler) ; Moore, 1899 : 230, pi. 275, figs. 



i-ig o"? wet and dry season forms. 

 Neptis hylas aslola f. adara Moore ; Fruhstorfer, 191 3 : 602. 

 Neptis hylas adara Moore (syns. mamaja Butler, meetana Moore) ; Evans, 1932 : 166. 



Moore (1899) wrongly placed kamarupa as a syn. of varmona, the subspecies 

 occurring in Peninsular India, and other authors have followed him. Examples 

 from Assam do not differ from Burmese examples. 



N. India (from Mussoorie extending along Himalayan foothills to Assam), Burma, 

 Siam, S. and N. Vietnam, S. Yunnan, merging in the north east into ssp. hylas 

 and in the south into ssp. papaja. 



N. hylas varmona Moore 



Neptis varmona Moore, 1872 : 561. Mountains of S. India, q*? types BMNH. Wet season 



form. 

 Neptis disrupta Moore, 1877b : 339. (J Ceylon. Aberration. 

 Neptis swinhoei Butler, 1883 : 145, pi. 24, fig. 9. Nilgherries. 6* type BMNH. 

 Neptis eurymene Butler, 1883 : 145, pi. 24, fig. 5. Mhow. $ type BMNH. 

 Neptis varmona Moore (syns. kamarupa Moore dry season form, swinhoei Butler wet season form 



(= eurymene Butler dry season form), disrupta Moore ab.) ; Moore, 1899 : 230, pi. 276, 



figs, i-ig (J? wet and dry season forms. 

 Neptis hylas swinhoei Butler ; Fruhstorfer, 191 3 : 602. 

 Neptis hylas varmona Moore with f. disrupta Moore and f. kamarupa Moore (syn. eurymene 



Butler) ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 602. 

 Neptis hylas varmona Moore (syns. eurynome Linnaeus [sic], leucothoe Cramer, disrupta Moore, 



kamarupa Moore, eurymene Butler, swinhoei Butler) ; Evans, 1932 : 166. 



Ceylon, Peninsular India. 



