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spots, an ill-defined black-bordered submarginal lunular line : hind Aving with -white inner 
band, and ferruginous [ ? fuliginous] white outer narrow lunular curved band. Underside 
deep ferruginous ; markings prominent, and suffused with pale ferruginous ; those of the hind 
wing similar to N. soma, but narrower. Expanse 2 inches." (Moore, I. c.) 
Mr. Elwes, avIio has seen the specimens which I refer to jS\ susruta, 
considers them to be a form of iV^. nandina, Moore. The type of N. nandina 
was from Java, but is now lost, and Mr. Moore is not quite certain that the 
specimens in his collection under this name are really that species. 
Chinese specimens of N. susruta are darker in colour of under surface, and 
the marginal bands of secondaries are straighter, but they do not otherwise 
differ from the representative of the species in Mr. Moore's collection. 
Occurs at Chia-kou-ho, Pu-tsu-fong, Omei-shan, Moupin, and Wa-shan in 
Western China. 
Distribution. Sikkim, Bhutan, Cachar, Sylhet, Assam, Khasi Hills, 
Chittagong, Upper Tenasserim [de Mceville), Western China. 
Neptis adipala. (Plate XIX. fig. 10.) 
Neptis adipala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 563, pi. xxxii. fig. 8; de Nice- 
ville, Butt. Ind. ii. p. 102 (1886). 
" Male. Tpperside fuliginous black ; markings white. Fore wing with a narrow discoidal and 
elongated and triangular contiguous streak ; spots of curved discal band small ; a submarginal 
row of black-bordered lunules. Hind wing with moderately broad inner band, and outer 
band of narrow quadrate spots. Underside deep bright ferruginous. Fore wing, markings as 
above. Hind wing with the bands and two basal streaks similar to those of N. nandina, 
except that the narrow outer line is in this nearer the margin. Expanse 2 inches." 
{Moore, 1. c.) 
The Chinese specimens, which I consider referable to N. adipala, do not 
agree mth the type of this species in the direction of the band on secondaries, 
which also terminates in a different position ; the white streak on under surface 
of the costa of secondaries is shorter, and there is no line or whitish band before 
the fringes. 
Occm's at Chia-kou-ho, Wa-shan, Omei-shan, Pu-tsu-fong, and Moupin, in 
Western China. 
Distribution. Sikkim, Khasi Hills, Naga Hills, and Upper Tenasserim [de 
Niceville) ; Western China. 
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