EURASIAN & AUSTRALIAN NEPTINI in 



As I have not seen this form, I place it provisionally, and with great hesitation, 

 as a subspecies of N. yunnana, with which it appears to agree in its main diagnostic 

 characters, namely : it is smaller than N. thisbe, the under surface ground colour 

 is paler, the hind wing discal band is reduced above vein 6 and the pale lavender 

 subbasal spots in spaces 5 and 6 are clear of the inner edge of the discal band. In 

 the last two of these characters it also agrees with the dark form of N. thisbe obscurior. 



The curious, discontinuous distribution of the collective yunnana in the Maritime 

 Province of the U.S.S.R. and Korea and in the Upper Mekong Valley is exactly 

 matched by the distribution of N. speyeri. 



Kurentzov (1936) says that tshetverikovi flies at higher altitudes than N. thisbe 

 and emerges earlier ; but he mentions intermediate examples where the two forms 

 meet. Shirozu (1952) held the two forms to be specifically distinct. 



None in BMNH. 



N. yunnana yunnana Oberthiir 



(Text-fig. 83) 



Neptis yunnana Oberthiir, 1906 : n, pi. 8, fig. 1. Tse-Kou. <J type BMNH. 

 Neptis yunnana Oberthiir ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 610. 



The female appears to be unknown. 

 N.W. Yunnan (Upper Mekong Valley). 



Neptis themis Leech 



N. themis ilos Fruhstorfer 



Neptis themis ilos Fruhstorfer, 1909 : 42. Amur. 

 Neptis nycteus ilos Fruhstorfer ; Fruhstorfer, 1913 : 610. 

 Neptis themis ilos Fruhstorfer ; Gaede, 1930 : 197. 



Eastern Siberia (Amur Basin). 



N. themis muri ssp. n. 



o* chiefly distinguished by whitish instead of yellow markings, which are intermediate in 

 width between ssp. ilos and ssp. themis, being narrower, especially the hind wing discal band, 

 than the latter and wider, especially on the fore wing, than the former. The upper postdiscal 

 band of the forewing is wide and the spot in space 5 is contiguous with the spot in space 6, these 

 spots being separated in the other two subspecies. 



Holotype <$. North China : Kalgan (ex Rothschild coll.). 



Described from the type and one other male, which might represent a white 

 variety of a normally yellow subspecies. However there are no yellow examples 

 in BMNH from North China. 



