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although the name of variabilis Rothscli. designates the main form, daria from the southern part of the island variabilis. 
deviates from northern specimens in having all the white bands broader; probably they originate from an ex¬ 
treme dry-season form such as we frequently find in the more arid South of Celebes, in contradistinction to the 
moister northern portion. From near Maros and Pare Pare. — hiereia subsp. nov. is essentially darker than hiereia. 
daria from the Minahassa; ground-colour deep chocolate-brown, the patches above dusted with brown, the bands 
on under surface narrower. East Celebes; type in the Staudinge r collection. — osima subsp. nov., a melanotic osima. 
insular race, having the under surface nearly black-brown and above the white bands still further reduced 
than in the form from East Celebes. Sula Islands, Bangkai. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
N. aspasia Leech (v. Vol. I, p. 180, pi. 55 c). shows in the large scent-area on hindwing and in the aspasia,. 
vertically erect, blunt precostal its close relationship with Phaedyma, although Moore classed it, probably 
on account of the yellow bands, with his promiscuous Genus Stabrobates. From the large-sized Neptis radha 
(125 f) which was Moore’s type of his “Genus” Stabrobates, aspasia is easily distinguished by the short and 
blunt precostal which is not lengthened distally. It is one of the most common Chinese Neptis species. 
Szetchuan, Omeishan Siao Lu, Tien Tsuen, Kweitschou (Leech). 
Sub-Group B. 
Base of forewing beneath without reddish scent-scale spot. 
N. amphion (= heliodora Cr., pellucidus Goeze, heliodorus Hrbst., heliocopis Godt., melaleuca Bsd., 
cerne Btlr.) has received no less than seven specific names and was classed among an equal number of Genera, 
which proves the deep and never-ceasing interest this species has met with on the part of the authors. It is 
confined to the Southern Moluccas, occurring in two forms. — amphion L. (126 a <$, b $). Beneath the mar- amphion 
kings of the upper surface are repeated, but with two additional rows of white anteterminal dots. Ground¬ 
colour uniformly dark coffee-brown, occasionally with a purplish lustre. Amboina, Ceram. — nerio Nicev. nerio. 
(= polion Sm.) of which but a few specimens are known, only differs in the smaller white spots in the cell of 
the fore wing and the somewhat broader median fascia on the hindwing. Buru. 
N. ampliata Btlr., a rare species from the Bismarck Archipelago, above resembling somewhat N. ampliata. 
pisias (126 b), but with uncommonly broad, hyaline, white spots of a slightly greenish lustre, on the forewing 
united into a band which towards the middle is concavely curved outward. Beneath it closely resembles 
amphion, but the hyaline spots display a faint lustre of mother of pearl. Neu Lauenburg (Fruhstorfer 
collection), Neu Pommern (Pagenstecher). — eleuthera Sm. is a beautiful form which might possibly be eleuthera. 
united with ampliata Btlr. Beneath the hindwing lacks the white subbasal dot, otherwise with markings like 
ampliata-, forewing has the apex somewhat more rounded. Stephansort, German New Guinea; only 1 speci¬ 
men known. 
N. fissizonata Btlr. is found in the Bismarck Archipelago and a few of the Solomon Islands, where 
three insular forms have developed: pisias Godm.. and Salv. (126 b) with medium sized, greenish-white hyaline pisias. 
spots. Under surface like that of amphion dark brown, but with very large, sharply marked, cellular and sub¬ 
marginal spots and a row of antemarginal spots which are, especially in quite conspicuous and united 
into a broad band on the hindwing. Solomon and Shortland Islands. — fissizonata Btlr., a melanotic fissizonata. 
form, forewing with greatly reduced bands and spots; on hindwing distinguished from pisias by having also above 
a series of roundish spots of the size of a pin-head, united into a sort of incoherent band. — lydda Fruhst. lydda. 
inhabits the Bismarck Archipelago and even surpasses pisias in the extent of the greenish-white patches. 
Neu Pommern, Neu Lauenburg. 
N. eblis, the darkest Neptis species, uniformly fuscous brown, without any markings besides a sub- 
marginal row of white dots on both wings and a few nearly obsolete white submedian dots on the hind¬ 
wing. Two insular forms: eblis Btlr. (126 c) has on the.under surface the macular rows a trifle larger and faintly eblis. 
irrorated with purplish, with a round white spot before the middle of the cell of the forewing and near the 
base of the hindwing. Neu-Lauenburg, Neu Pommern. — ganina Sm., a rare form, unknown to me in natura, ganina. 
named after the port of Gani on Halmaheira. 
N. mimetica Sm. is above not unlike the white-bordered Euploeas ( kuehniana Fruhst. 85 d, leaina mimetica. 
Fruhst. 85 d and fabricia Fruhst. 86 a). Its author compares it with E. orope Bsd. Ground-colour brown, 
both wings bordered by a broad white area, which is on the forewing interrupted by the veins into separate 
patches and accompanied distally by two delicate anteterminal lines, on the hindwing divided by brown bands 
into three patches. Hinclwing with the yellow basal spot characteristic of Phaedyma. Ground-colour beneath 
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