EURASIAN & AUSTRALIAN NEPTINI 9 i 



The general similarity of wet season forms from the western Himalayas and dry 

 season forms from the eastern Himalayas has led to mistakes in nomenclature. 

 The types of amboides represent the prevailing wet season form of the N.W. Him- 

 alayas. The type of amba from ' Nepal ' agrees with examples from the Katmandu 

 district taken from April to June and also with intermediate examples from Sikkim 

 and Assam ; clearly it came from Eastern Nepal and in consequence the name 

 amba must be used to designate the subspecies from these regions in place of quilta 

 Swinhoe. 



N.W. Himalayas (Kashmir to Kumaon). 



N. sankara amba Moore stat. n. 



Neptis amba Moore, 1858 : 7, pi. 49, fig. 4 $. Nepal. Intermediate season form. $ type 



BMNH. 

 Neptis quilta Swinhoe, 1897 : 4°8- 6"9 Cherra Punji. syn. n. 



Bimbisara quilta (Swinhoe) Moore, 1899 : 6, pi. 290, figs, i-ie <J$ wet and <J dry season forms. 

 Neptis {Bimbisara) sankara quilta Swinhoe ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 619, pi. 125c $. 

 Neptis sankara quilta Swinhoe ; Evans, 1932 : 167. 



Eastern Himalayas, Assam. Examples from N.E. Burma (Sadon) are closer 

 to this subspecies than to the next. 



N. sankara guiltoides Tytler 



Neptis sankara guiltoides Tytler, 1940 : 117. North Shan States. <J$ types BMNH. 



Burma, North Siam. Examples from N.W. Yunnan (Upper Mekong Valley) 

 do not differ much and are placed here provisionally. 



N. sankara peninsularis ssp. n. 



<J closest to ssp. yamari (Fruhstorfer) and like it with clear white markings on a black ground. 

 Differs on the upper surface in having the cell streak and lower postdiscal band much narrower, 

 with the postdiscal spot in space 2 well separated from the spot in space ia ; on the hind wing 

 the discal band is narrower and more regular but the postdiscal band is wider. Differs from ssp. 

 guiltoides in smaller size (fore wing length 28-30 mm.) and in the clearer white and more sharply 

 outlined markings so that it looks a neater, black and white insect. 



Holotype <$. Malaya ; Pahang, Fraser's Hill, 4000 ft., 23.iii.1957 (/. N. Eliot). 



Described from 8 <$ from Malaya (including 1 <$ coll. Hislop, 1 <$ coll. Bedford 

 Russell, 2 <$ coll. Eliot). 



