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RHOPA L 0 CER A MALA VAN A, 



A. Wing* irttk oranfft-cofaitred marking and spot*. 



a. Second gubco&Utl nennlc of anterior tcintjs emitted at stone distance from end of celt. K,\niNDA, Moore. 



I. Neptis hordonia. (Tab. XYlL t fig, IBs.) 



t'apHio Hordonia, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. t. 88, f. 4, 4D (1790). 

 XtjHiph/itiH Hordonia, Godt, Enc, M^th. ix. p. 429, n. 258 (1828). 



XqttU liordonw, Horsf, & Moore, Cat. Lcp. Mua. E.LC. i. p. 164, n. 397 (1857i; Druce, Proc. Zool, Soc. 

 1B73, p. 848, n, 1 1 ibid. 1874, p. 105, a. 3 ; Butt. Trans. Linn. Soc. scr. 2, Zooi. vol. i. p. 542, 

 ii. 11 (1877), 



Male and Female. Wings above rich dark brown, with the following orange-eoloured markings : — 

 Anterior wings with a long and broad basal cellular streak occupying the lower half of cell and defiexed and 

 extending beyond it at and above the first and second median nervines, this streak above is distinctly cleft 

 a little lieyoud its centre, and in some specimens extends a little beneath the median nervure ; a subapical 

 transverse macular fascia, commencing near costa and terminating near first median nervulc, and a short 

 oblique curved and dentate fascia, commencing above the second median nervulu and terminating on mm r 

 margin ; posterior w T ings with a broad central fascia and a narrow (in some specimens broad) curved 

 submarginal one. Both wings with a narrow fuscous submarginal fascia, sometimes that on anterior 

 wings and sometimes those on both wings narrowly outwardly margined with dark ocbraceous. Wings 

 beneath ochraceous ; anterior wings with a broad costal streak extending to beyond cell, and from thence 

 detiexed and outwardly curved to beyond third median ncrvule, reddish brown ; two waved reddish brown 

 submarginal fascia, and the margin broadly of the same colour, between these the colour is more or less 

 violaceous ; extreme margin fuscous, the fringe alternately greyish ; posterior wings with a broad basal 

 reddish brown fascia or suffusion ; a somewhat curved central violaceous fascia, narrowly bordered 

 anteriorly and broadly posteriorly with reddish brown, and a submarginal fascia somewhat similarly 

 coloured and bordered. Body and legs more or less concolorous with the ground colour of the wings 

 both above and beneath. 



Exp. wings, <? and ? , 42 to 45 millim. 



Hah— Continental India ; Bombay (Dr. Leith) ; Darjeelmg (coll. Dist.) — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca 

 (Pmwill — Brit. Mus.) — Sumatra (Forbes, coll. Dist.)— Ban ea.*— Java (Horsf, & Moore). — Borneo (Druce). — 

 Siam ; Chentaboon (Druce). 



This is a protean species, and varies much both in markings and hue, points of some 

 importance in estimating the specific position of other and closely allied variable species. The 

 specimen here figured agrees with the figure of Stoll, and may be considered as typical. 

 Other Malaecan specimens in the British Museum have the yellow submarginal fascia on the 

 upper surface of the posterior wings much wider, but are still inconstant in that respect. 

 The palest specimen I possess, with all the yellow markings broadest, is from Bombay. 

 The mottled markings beneath are always present and always distinctive. 



2. Neptis peraka. (Tab, XYIL, fig, 2 s.) 



X^tti pantka, Butler, Trans, Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p, 542. n. t. lxviii. rig. 2 (1877}. 



Male and Female. Closely allied to the preceding species {N* hordonia), and above scarcely 

 distinguishable from some of the broadly yellow marked varieties of that species. The wings beneath are 



* Colleoted by M. Teyemoiui iPet. Nob v. Eat. 1874, p. 404). 



