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LEPIDOPTEBA INBIOA. 
EAHINDA PARAKA. 
Neptis Parana, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 2nd ser. i. p. 542, pi. 68, fig. 2, $ (June, 1879). de 
Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 80 (1886). 
Neptis Per aka, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 150, pi. 17, fig. 2, ? (1883). 
Neptis (Bahinda ) Paraka, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 407. 
Neptis Dahana, Kheil, Rhop. Nias, p. 24, pi. 5, fig. 27 (1884). 
Dry-season brood (Plate 302, tig. 2, 2a, b, $ $ ). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside rich dark ochreous-brown, almost black ; cilia greyish- 
brown. Foreiving with a reddish-ochreous broad discoidal streak, which is indented 
at upper end of cell and extends irregularly below the median vein from the base ; 
a contiguous subapical broad band, its outer edge evenly curved and its inner edge 
irregularly sinuous ; a lower-discal oblique broad band, constricted in its middle, its 
upper portion somewhat rounded and pointed anteriorly inward—the point in some 
specimens touching the outer lower angle of the discoidal streak ; beyond are two 
slender duller reddish-ochreous submarginal wavy lines, the first line angled inwards 
at the middle between the discal bands, followed by a less-defined similar outer 
marginal line. Hindwing with a broad reddish-ochreous inner-discal even-edged 
band, and a narrower outer-discal curved band, followed by a slender duller ochreous 
submarginal line; an obscure pale line also apparent between the two discal bands ; 
subcostal patch of brown scales similarly disposed to that in Hordonia. Underside 
with the markings yellowish-ochreous and obscurely defined, the intervening ground¬ 
colour between the markings being obscure brownish-ochreous, the markings on the 
hindwing having slightly defined blackish-edges. Foreiving also with the posterior 
base below the cell broadly glossy violet-grey and enclosing an elongated brown 
patch of P glandular scales extending above and below the submedian. Hindwing 
also with the costal base slightly yellowish-ochreous, the slightly-defined darker 
interspace between it and the discal band being obscurely marked by a short 
inwardly-oblique blackish bar situated between the discal interspace of the costal 
and subcostal vein, also a similar outer bar below the subcostals. 
Female. Upperside markings as in male, but somewhat narrower, and all with 
more sharply-defined edges. Underside with the markings somewhat more defined 
than in male, the intervening ground-colour being more dusky and greyish-ochreous. 
On the fore wing is a very slightly defined blackish-speckled longitudinal bar within 
the upper basal area of the cell, followed by an outwardly-oblique shorter similar bar 
on the discocellular veinlets, and a longer oblique bar beyond. Hindwing also with 
the two subbasal short oblique bars more distinctly black than in the male, the lower 
one being continued brokenly to the abdominal margin. Body and palpi above 
ochreous-brown ; tegulse and abdomen speckled with ochreous scales, forming on the 
