EURASIAN & AUSTRALIAN NEPTINI 85 



Neptis harita Moore 



(Text-fig. 14) 



N. harita harita Moore 



Neptis harita Moore, 1874 : 571, pi. 66, fig. 8 <J. q"? East Bengal. <J type BMNH. 



Neptis harita Moore, 1899 : 8, pi. 291, figs. 2-2C 6"?- 



Neptis vikasi sakala Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 351. $ Tonkin, syn. n. Type Paris. 



Neptis vikasi harita Moore ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 611 partim. 



Neptis vikasi sakala Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 19 13 : 612. 



Neptis harita Moore ; Evans, 1932 : 168. 



Neptis harita Moore ; Eliot, 1959 : 376. 



N.E. India, Burma, Siam, North Vietnam, Malaya. 



N. harita mingia ssp. n. 



(PI. 1, fig. io, Text-fig. 18) 



In both sexes differs from ssp. harita by having a broad, continuous dark band on the upper 

 surface of the hind wing beyond the postdiscal band in place of the narrower dark catenulate 

 spots characteristic of the former ; in consequence the postdiscal band is placed a little nearer 

 the base. On the under surface of the hind wing this band is present, but rather pale, and the 

 characteristic catenulate spots of harita are superimposed on its outer edge. 



Holotype <J. N.E. Sumatra : {Martin). 



Allotype ?• Same data as holotype. 



Described from 5 <$, 2 $ Sumatra and 1 J Borneo. 



Neptis ilira Kheil 



This species and N. harita are apparently duplex species, the former having 

 developed from a recent common ancestor in Malaysia, the latter in the Indo- 

 Burmese area. As the extent of overlap is now so great, from N.E. India to Borneo, 

 there seems to be no doubt of their present status as separate species. 



N. ilira cindia ssp. n. 



(PI. 1, fig. 8, Text-fig. 19) 



Bimbisara omeroda Moore ; Moore, 1899 : 10 partim o* nee $, pi. 292, figs. 1, ia q*- 



o" superficially nearer to N. harita mingia than to sspp. ilira or palawanica Staudinger. 

 Differs from the former as follows. On the upper surface the fore wing postdiscal spot in space 

 2 is generally smaller and usually rounded instead of crescentic, whilst the spot in space 3 is 

 absent or minute ; on the hind wing the speculum is smaller, causing only slight fading of the 

 discal band in spaces 6 and 7. On the under surface of the hind wing the discal band, which is 

 whitish in harita, is pale brown and is directed to the costa at, or just inside, the end of vein 8. 



9 also superficially closest to N. harita mingia from which it differs as follows. The fore wing 

 postdiscal spot in space 3 is smaller. On the under surface of the hind wing the discal band is 

 pale brown and the dark band outside the postdiscal band is more uniform. 



