NEPTIS. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
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cording to De Niceville is like that of Sumatra. — jucumdiora Fruhst. is remarkable for the broad white post- jucundiora. 
discal band on hindwing and the very prominent white stripes, also on the under surface; but the subapical 
spots on forewing are much smaller than in the Javanese nandina. Found in Lombok at elevations of from 2000 
to 3800 ft. above the level of the sea. Sumbawa. — sutnba Doh. is a small-sized, rare, insular form, unknown sumba. 
to me in natura. — florensis Snell, which is not represented in my collection surpasses, according to the des- florensis. 
cription by its author, in size the Indian susrata and leuconota from Perak. Under surface cinnamon-brown. 
Flores. 
N. soma is less susceptible of climatic influences than N. nandina, and ranges over a much smaller 
area, being largely confined to the Continent and nowhere found in the Northern Philippines or in the Macro- 
malayan Islands, Engano and Perak excepted. Its occurrence in Formosa together with a true nandina form 
caused me to compare the genital organs, which rendered a separation of the two advisable, although formerly 
they had been united by Butler, Niceville, Bingham and myself, soma has also more rounded wings and, 
even in the dry-season form, the white spots on the upper surface unusually much obscured and reduced. In 
morphological respects the more robust Uncus and the Valve which is provided distally with a minute, sharp 
spine and subbasally with a sharp prominence, are additional proof of the difference between these species 
which holds good in the Continental as ivell as the insular forms of the collective species. — lutatia Fruhst. lutatia. 
(126f) circumscribes a relatively large form, of a lovely, uniform chocolate-brown colour beneath. $ larger than 
S, with somewhat broader white bands. Formosa, from the low-lands to about 3800 ft. of alt. Not very scarce. 
* — boholica Fruhst., a small form from Bohol and Cebu, differing from Perak specimens of soma gononata Btlr. boholica. 
in the paler, greyish under surface. Above the markings are pure white, narrower than in specimens from 
Mindanao. — pseudosoma Fruhst. inhabits Mindanao and Camiguin de Mindanao. The bands on the upper pseudosoma. 
surface are dusted with ashy-grey, and the S3 are, judging from Semper’s figures, smaller than those from Bohol, 
but according to my own notes and contrary to Semper’s reports the types in his collection have the stripes 
much broader than specimens from Bohol, shaded with brown-yellow, and the bands underneath narrower 
than in N. mindorana Fldr. ■ — palibofhra subsp. nov. of which I possess 5 specimens from the Philippine palibothra. 
island of Bazilan, is in hardly any larger than somula (126 f); $ approaching the figured nandina <$ (126 e). 
Both sexes differ from lutatia in having above the white submarginal dots more marked and the cellular stripes 
on forewing somewhat broader. Under surface paler brown than i nlutatia, the subterminal spotting in contra¬ 
distinction to the Continental forms purer white and more pronounced. February and March. — eapnodes capnodes. 
Fruhst. refers to the rainy-season form found in western China and figured by Leech on pi. 19 as susruta (fig. 9) 
and adipala (fig. 10), which figures were copied by Stichel in producing the same forms on pi. 53 in Vol. I 
of this work. A comparison with the new figures of susruta (126f,g, wrongly named soma) shows at once the dif¬ 
ference, viz. the greatly reduced patches and the separated cellular spots on the under surface of the forewing. 
Western China, especially in the Province of Szetchuan. — acala Fruhst. (126 g) is the darkest of all hitherto acadi. 
known forms of soma; the white bands are, especially in $$, very indistinct and shaded with grey. I only know 
the dry-season form which I took in Central Tonkin near Chiem-Hoa during August and September. — 
As pseudadipala Fruhst. I have described a dry-season or local form from southern Annam in which all the pseudadi- 
white markings above are, unlike acala, enlarged, somewhat like in adipala Moore; beneath the ground-colour P aia - 
is pale red-brown, the submarginal band on hindwing narrower than in adipala and soma. Flies in February. 
- —- tushita Fruhst. is a rather small form from Siam in which the exceedingly narrow, in the cell occasionally tushita. 
obsolete markings on the forewings greatly contrast with the brillant, broadly white bands on the hindwing. 
Under surface a deep chocolate-brown. — gononata Btlr., not represented in my collection, in size like tushita, gononata. 
but according to Distant’s figure with more prominent wdiite bands throughout. Malay Peninsula. •— sonia soma. 
Moore occurs together with nandina susruta Moore, but not farther West than Sikkim; particularly abundant 
in Assam and near Darjeeling. The rainy-season form has the markings of the upper surface generally clouded 
with grey. — adipala Moore refers to the dry-season form, with clear white and broader bands above and adipala. 
occasionally yellow-brown instead of red-brown under surface. — kallaura Moore replaces soma in the South kallaura. 
of India where it has so far only been found near Travancore and in Kanara. Larva feeds on Malvaceae, Legu- 
minosae and Urticaceae, and has the same characteristics as that of N. jurnbah; also the pupa resembles that of 
jumbah. The imago is closely allied to soma, and the few specimens contained in the British Museum are descri¬ 
bed by Bingham as having the same narrow and small white spots. However, the subbasal band on the hind wing 
appears still more elongate and irregularly broad; the under surface paler ochreous and the discal spots nearer 
together. — meridiei Doh. from the island of Engano is so far the only known subspecies of soma found in the meridiei. 
Malayan Insular Region. It is a very distinct form, resembling lutatia Fruhst. from Formosa in the markings 
of the upper surface which, however, are purer white without any grey or blackish clouding, and show a very 
