EURASIAN & AUSTRALIAN NEPTINI 95 



N. magadha plautia Fruhstorfer 



Neptis magadha plautia Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 309. $ N. Borneo, Kina Balu. Type Paris. 

 Neptis magadha plautia Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 604. 



North Borneo. 



N. magadha pasiphae Fruhstorfer 



Neptis magadha pasiphae Fruhstorfer, 1908a : 309. <J$ East and West Java. $ type Paris. 



Neptis magadha pasiphae Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 604. 



Neptis magadha pasiphae Fruhstorfer ; Roepke, 1938 : 303, pi. 32, fig. 6q\ 



Shows a reversion to ssp. magadha, from which it is doubtfully separable. 

 Java. 



N. magadha charonides Lathy stat. n. 



Neptis charonides Lathy, 191 3 (March) : 99. q"$ Nias. 



Neptis magadha banuta Fruhstorfer, 1913 (Sept.) : 604. Nias. syn. n. <J? types Paris, 

 labelled ' canuta '. 



Nias. 



N. magadha kerosa Corbet 

 Neptis magadha kerosa Corbet, 1942 : 618. q*$ Mentawi Is. Types BMNH. 



Mentawi Is. 



Neptis nashona Swinhoe 

 N. nashona patricia Oberthiir stat. n. 



Neptis patricia Oberthiir, 1906 : 14, pi. 8, fig. 6 q\ Siao-Lou. Type BMNH. 

 Neptis zaida patricia Oberthiir ; Stichel, 1909 : 178, pi. 54c. 



Western China (only the type). 



N. nashona chapa ssp. n. 



(PI. 2, fig. 17) 



o* on the upper surface nearest to ssp. patricia, but the pale orange-yellow markings are a 

 little richer and less sullied. On the under surface the fore wing submarginal series and post- 

 discal fascia are narrower and more obscure and the hind wing postdiscal band is much narrower. 

 Fore wing length 34-5 mm., in the unique type the wing being unusually narrow and with a 

 rather pointed apex. 



Holotype <$. ' Cochin China ' (rede Tonkin), Chapa, x.1935 (S. Masseyeff). 

 Unique. 



