EURASIAN & AUSTRALIAN NEPT1NI 93 



N. philyra melior Hall 



Neptis philyra melior Hall, 1930 : 158. <J$ Yunnan, Tse-Kou. Types BMNH. 

 N.W. Yunnan (Upper Mekong Valley). 



Neptis speyeri Staudinger 

 N. speyeri speyeri Staundinger 



Neptis speyeri Staudinger, 1887 : 145, pi. 7, figs. 3a, 3b ' $ ' recte q\ Amur. 

 Neptis speyeri Staudinger ; Stichel, 1909 : 175, pi. 53c. 



Eastern Siberia (Amur Basin). A pair have the postdiscal band obsolete on 

 the upper surface of the hind wing and all the marginal and submarginal markings 

 blurred and obsolescent on the under surface of both wings. The male was dissected 

 and was found to have the normal genitalia of speyeri. Two males from Central 

 Korea have the under surface ground colour darker and the hind wing discal band 

 narrower and may represent a distinct subspecies. 



N. speyeri genulfa Oberthiir stat. n. 

 (Text-fig. 46) 



Neptis genulfa Oberthiir, 1908a : 310, pi. 5, fig. 7 <J. Tse-Kou. $ type BMNH. 

 Neptis (Bimbisara) sankara genulfa Oberthiir ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 619. 

 Neptis genulfa Oberthiir ; Gaede, 1930 : 196, pi. 12c, e. 



N.W. Yunnan (Upper Mekong Valley). 



Neptis cartica Moore 



N. cartica cartica Moore 



(Text-fig. 47) 



Neptis cartica Moore, 1872 : 562. o*9 Nepal. Types BMNH. 



Neptis carticoides Moore, 1881a : 309. $ Darjiling. Type BMNH. 



Bimbisara cartica (Moore) (syn. carticoides Moore wet season form) Moore, 1899 : 1, pi. 287, 



figs, i-id o* wet and <J$ dry season forms. 

 Neptis cartica cartica Moore with f. carticoides Moore ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 613, pi. 125c 

 Neptis cartica cartica Moore (syn. carticoides Moore) ; Evans, 1932 : 168. 



Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, North Burma (as far south as the Karen Hills), 

 Tonkin. 



N. cartica burmana de Niceville 



Neptis burmana de Niceville, 1886a : 89. q* Upper Tenasserim. 



Neptis burmana de Niceville ; de Niceville, 1886b : 251, pi. 9, fig. 9$. 



Bimbisara burmana de Niceville ; Moore, 1899 : 3, pi. 287, figs. 2, 2a <J. 



Neptis cartica burmana de Niceville ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 613. 



Neptis cartica meraca Riley & Godfrey, 1921: 177, pi. 5, fig. 4 6*. o*9 Prae District, N. Siam. 



syn. n. Types BMNH. 

 Neptis cartica burmana de Niceville ; Evans, 1932 : 168 partim. 



South Burma, North Siam. 



