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NYMPHALID^. 
'■'■Male and female. Upperside black : wings elongated, as in the European iV. acms ; markings 
white, and disposed as in that species, but more prominent and broader than in any known 
allied species of this group, being broader even than in N. nandina. Underside deep 
brownish ferruginous ; markings white, broad, their borders imperceptibly black-margined, 
not prominently so as in N. astola or A\ varmona : middle band of hind wing narrowing to 
abdominal margin." {Moore, I. c.) 
Chinese examples have the submarginal line of secondaries straighter 
from apex to anal angle and a narrower outer discal band. Notwithstanding 
these differences I have no doubt that they are referable to mahendra, 
with the type of which, in Mr. Moore's collection, they have been compared. 
I describe this form as — 
Yar. extensa, var. nov. (Plate XIX. fig. 5.) 3Iale. Differs from the type in the shape of the 
spot forming the continuation of the discoidal streak of primaries ; the white bands of 
secondaries are narrower and their edges straighter. On the under surface of secondaries 
there are two greyish-white bands on outer margin. 
Female larger than the male, but does not differ from that sex in colour or marking. 
Expanse, d G-4-70 millim., 5 74 millim. 
Occurs at Wa-shan, Wa-ssu-kow, Ni-tou, Pu-tsu-fong, Moupin, and Omei- 
shan in Western China, and is common in all these places up to an elevation 
of 9000 feet. 
iV! mahendra has only been recorded from the North-west Himalayas. 
Neptis eurynome. (Plate XIX. figs. G c? , 4 var.) 
PapUio Icucothoij, Cramer {nec Linn.), Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 296. figs. E, F (1780) ; 
Donovan, Ins. China, pi. 37. fig. 3 (1799). 
Limenitis eurynome, Westwood, Donovan's Insects China (2nd ed.), p. GG, pi. 35. fig. 4 
(1842). 
Neptis sangaica, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) xx. p. 47 (1877). 
" Alis dentatis supra fusco-nigris, subtus fulvis ; fasciis interruptis macularibus albis, subtus 
fusco cinctis, anticis fascia longitudinali baseos maculis duabus triangularibus compositfi. 
Expans. alar. 2,| unc. 
" The wings dentate, brownish black above, fulvous beneath, with interrupted white maculated 
bands, which on the underside are edged with brown ; the anterior have also a longitudinal 
basal fascia, composed of two triangular white spots, the bases of which are opposed to each 
other. Expanse of the wings 2^ inches." ( Westtuood, I. c.) 
Var. sangaica, Moore. (Plato XIX. fig. 4.) "■Mule and female. Upperside black, markings 
white; fore wing with short discoidal streak and large contiguous spot, a discal transverse 
curved Hories of broad s])ots, and a marginal row of prominent Hiniill lunular spots ; liind 
wing with broad subbasal incurved band, and a broad outer maculated band. Underside 
