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Show 570 MR. F. MOORE ON N E W ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [Nov. 3, SYMBRENTHIA DARUKA. (Plate LXVI. fig. 10.) Male. Allied to S. hyppocla ; differs on the upperside in having the orange-red bands very broad, which are irregular-margined and confluent, leaving but little black intervening spaces. On the underside the colour is paler and the interlacings much less prominently defined. Exp. If inch. Hab. N. India. In Coll. F. Moore. NEPTIS EURYNOME. Limenitis eurynome,Westwood, in 2nd edit. Donov. Ins. of China, p. 66. Pap. leucothoe, Donovan, Ins. of China, 1st edit. t. 35. f. 3 (1798), nee Cram. Male and female. Upperside fuliginous, black ; markings white and very broad, broader than in N. leucothoe, Cram., or in N. sura-karta ; submarginal row of spots on fore wing prominent; outer band of hind wing very broad, nearly the same width as inner band. Underside ferruginous yellow ; bands as above, all black-bordered ; subbasal streak on hind wing short and not black-bordered. Exp. J 2f, 2 2f inches. Hab. N. China (Shanghai). Differs from N. leucothoe, Cram., in its larger size, broader markings, and much greater width of the outer band on hind wing. NEPTIS KAMARUPA. Male and female. Upperside fuliginous black ; markings white, broad, prominent: fore wing with the discal series of spots at very oblique angles, the first spot of the lower portion small; a prominent marginal linear series of white quadrate spots : bind wing with the subbasal band evenly margined ; outer band broad and composed of quadrate spots; a prominent narrow white marginal line. Underside ferruginous yellow; markings as above ; very slightly black-bordered. Exp. cS 21 2 2 | inches. Hab. Assam. In Coll. Oxford University Museum. Nearest allied to N. varmona, but may be distinguished from it on the underside by the delicate narrow black bordering of the bands and the absence of the black streaks on the veins of the fore wing. NEPTIS PAPAJA. Male. Upperside fuliginous black ; markings white, disposed somewhat as in N. emodes : fore wing with the discoidal streak and terminal elongated triangular spot blackish-speckled; transverse discal series of spots small, each widely separated ; the row of submarginal lunular spots bordered on each side by pale-bordered black lunules : hind wing with straight subbasal band and submarginal row of separated lunules ; a line between the bands and outer marginal line pale |