EURASIAN & AUSTRALIAN NEPTINI 75 



N. nata gononata Butler 



Neplis gononata Butler, 1877 : 196. <$ Malacca, [nom. nud.] 



Neplis gononata Butler, 1879b : 541, pi. 69, fig. 2 labelled ' Neptis leuconata '. £ Malacca. 



Type BMNH. 

 Neptis soma gononata Butler ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 607. 

 Neptis nata gononata Butler ; Eliot, i960 : 242. 



Malaya. 



N. nata agathyllis Fruhstorfer 



Neptis nata cresina f. agathyllis Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 313. West Sumatra. <$ type Paris. 

 Neptis nata agathyllis Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 605. 



Neptis soma samatrensis van Eecke, 1918 : 89, pi. 8, fig. 11. Padang Highlands, West Sumatra. 

 Neptis nata agathyllis Fruhstorfer (syn. sumatrensis van Eecke) ; Eliot, i960 : 241. 



This and the next two subspecies differ greatly from all the other subspecies 

 The hind wing discal band ends just above vein 7 instead of continuing full width 

 to the costa, the under surface ground colour is brown with hardly any reddish 

 tinge and, particularly in Sumatra and Borneo, the cell streak is broad, the streak 

 beyond cell is long and the discocellular bar is weakly developed. 



Sumatra. 



N. nata nata Moore 



Neptis nata Moore, 1857 : 168, pi. 4a, fig. 6 <J. <$ Borneo. Type BMNH. 



Neptis fulva Pryer & Cator, 1894 : 260. N. Borneo. 



Neptis kechil Pryer & Cator, 1894 : 260. N. Borneo. 



Neptis nata nata f. rasilis Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 313. Borneo. <J$ types Paris. 



Neptis nata egeslas Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 314 partim $ nee ?. S.E. Borneo, syn. n. <$ type 



Paris. 

 Neptis nata nata Moore f. rasilis Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 191 3 : 605. 

 Neptis nata egestas Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 605 partim. 



Neptis nata nata Moore (syns. fulva, kechil Pryer & Cator) ; Corbet, 1947 : 41 ? partim. 

 Neptis nata nata Moore (syns. fulva, kechil Pryer & Cator, rasilis Fruhstorfer) ; Eliot, i960 : 241. 



The confusion which has for long existed between N. nata and N. leucoporos 

 Fruhstorfer has been briefly discussed by me (i960). It began when Moore himself 

 (1858 : 10) listed a female leucoporos from Singapore as N. nata, and later he used 

 his name nata for the leucoporos form occurring in S. Burma (1899 : 243). Fruhstorfer 

 used nata as the species name for all leucoporos forms whilst also using it for the 

 true nata forms in Borneo, Sumatra and Nias ; evidently he regarded ' nata ' as a 

 dimorphic species in the first two of these countries though monomorphic every- 

 where else. All other authors followed Fruhstorfer. 



Borneo. 



