. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 338 NYMPHALTDJE. 350. Neptis vikasi, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. 1829, pi. 5, figs. 2, 2 a. Race pseudovikasi. Neptis pseudovikasi, Moore (Bimbisara), Lep. 2nd. ii; 1886, p. 7, pi. 291, figs. 1, lff-lc, 6 2- Race pseudovikasi, Moore.— 6 2 • Upperside very dark brown with fuliginous-white markings. Fore wing: discoidal streak long and narrow, much longer than in N. harita, preapically notched by the point of a pale black- bordered subcostal lunule as in that form ; the spots of the discal series in interspaces 1 a and 3 obsolescent, the intervening
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 338 NYMPHALTDJE. 350. Neptis vikasi, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. 1829, pi. 5, figs. 2, 2 a. Race pseudovikasi. Neptis pseudovikasi, Moore (Bimbisara), Lep. 2nd. ii; 1886, p. 7, pi. 291, figs. 1, lff-lc, 6 2- Race pseudovikasi, Moore.— 6 2 • Upperside very dark brown with fuliginous-white markings. Fore wing: discoidal streak long and narrow, much longer than in N. harita, preapically notched by the point of a pale black- bordered subcostal lunule as in that form ; the spots of the discal series in interspaces 1 a and 3 obsolescent, the intervening two outwardly truncate; the anterior spots of the same series elongate, narrow, placed very obliquely to the costa and in a curve; the trans- verse postdiscal series consists of short lines in the interspaces, inwardly bor- dered by a series of obliquely placed similar short pale lines. Hind wing : Fig- 62. sub basal and postdiscal bands narrow, Neptis pseudovikasi. \. discal and sub terminal bands more or less obsolescent. Underside purpures- cent brown, the markings as on the upperside but broader and whiter suffused with pale purple ; the discal pale band on the hind wing outwardly bordered by a broad band of very dark brown. Antenme, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown; the palpi, thorax and abdomen beneath somewhat paler. Exp. <3 2 66-74 mm. (2-61-2-82"). Rah. Sikhiin ; Bhutan ; the hills of Assam. 351. Neptis Miginosa, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 310; de N. Butt. 2nd, ii, 1886, p. 90; Moore (Pandasana), Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 12, pi. 293, tigs. 1, la-l&, d 2 • Neptis thamala, Moore, Jour. Linn. Soc., Zool. xxi, 1889, p. 36; pi. 3, fig. 1. Wet-season form.— S 2- Uppetside fuliginous brown, markings much paler brown, or brownish white. Fore wing with a non- indented, entire, somewhat narrow discoidal streak ; an ill-defined lunular mark above it just beyond middle, and two elongate spots above its apex; a discal curved series of spots each lon
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