78 J. N. ELIOT 



N. pampanga boholica Moore stat. n. 



Neptis gononata Semper (nee Butler), 1889 : 145, pi. 29, figs. 8 $, 9 $. Bohol, Cebu, Mindanao. 



Neptis boholica Moore, 1899 : 246. Bohol. 



Neptis nandina boholica Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 316. syn. n. 



Neptis soma boholica Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 19 13 : 607. 



Neptis nata boholica Fruhstorfer ; Eliot, i960 : 242. 



As Moore refers to Semper's figures, which must be taken to portray the types, 

 his name is valid despite Fruhstorfer's claim that it is a nomen nudum. 

 Cebu, Mindanao. None in BMNH from Bohol. 



N. pampanga lizana Fruhstorfer stat. n. 



Neptis gononata lizana Fruhstorfer, 1900 : 26. Bazilan. 

 Neptis nandina lizana Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 606. 



I have not seen this form, which I place here provisionally. 

 None in BMNH. 



Neptis mahendra Moore 



N. mahendra extensa Leech 

 (Text-fig. 41) 



Neptis mahendra var. extensa Leech, 1892 : 201, pi. 19, fig. 5. West China. 

 Neptis yerburyi extensa Leech ; Stichel, 1909 : 177, pi. 53I 

 Neptis mahendra extensa Leech ; Fruhstorfer, 191 3 : 608. 



Western China (Szechwan). 



N. mahendra Ursula ssp. n. 



(PI- 1, ng. 5) 



In both sexes nearer to ssp. extensa than to ssp. mahendra, having the fore wing lower post- 

 discal band directed to the termen just below the apex and not to the apex as in the latter. 

 On the upper surface all the white markings are wider than in extensa. On the under surface 

 the ground colour is redder and lighter in tone ; the fuscous lines outlining the hind wing discal 

 and postdiscal bands are obsolescent, being usually confined to a faint fuscous line on the 

 outside of the discal band ; the hind wing marginal fascia, which is whitish throughout in 

 extensa, is almost blotted out in spaces 3 and 4 by scales of the ground colour. 



Holotype <J. N.W. Yunnan : Upper Mekong Valley, Tse-Kou, 1890-1895 

 (R. P. J. Dubernard). 



Allotype $. Same data as holotype. 



Described from 17 <$, 4 $ from the Upper Mekong Valley (Tse-Kou and Lou-tse- 

 kiang). A single female from S.E. Tibet: Rong To Valley, 6500ft., 21.V.1933, 

 may represent a further subspecies. On the upper surface it resembles ssp. Ursula 

 except that the streak beyond cell is shorter and blunter, as in ssp. mahendra. 

 On the under surface the ground colour is redder than in Ursula and the hind wing 

 marginal fascia is whitish throughout, as in ssp. extensa. 



