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and several other plants, from August to October " (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, 

 273). 



Habits of Imago. — Mr. L. de Niceville states that "it has a much bolder 

 and stronger flight than the other species of Neptis occurring in Calcutta " 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1885,45). Capt. Hutchison says "its flight is slow and heavy, 

 and settles with wings open. Easy to capture" (Lep. Ceylon i. 55). 



Of our illustrations of this species ou Plate 272, fig. 1 represents the larva and 

 pupa reared in Kanara by Mr. Davidson (I.e.), fig. la, that of the larva reared in 

 Ceylon by Mr. Gregory, figs. 1, b, c, d, the male and female of ivet-season form, 

 and figs, e, f, the female of dry-season form. 



ANDRAPANA MAGADHA (Plate 273, fig. 2, 2a, b, ^ ^). 



Neptis Magadha, Fekler, Reise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 427, S (1867). de Niceville, Butt, of India, 



etc., p. 100 (1886). 

 Neptis Charon, Butler, Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist. (Dec. 1867), p. 400, pi. 9, fig. 1, J . Distant, 



Rhop. Malayana, p. 155, fig. 43, ?. 

 Neptis cineracea, Grose-Smith, Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1886, p. 151, ^ . 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside purpurescent-black ; markings bluish- 

 white ; cilia alternated with white. Foreiving with a somewhat narrow bluish-white 

 cell-streak and a broad short triangular spot beyond the cell ; three outwardly-oblique 

 subapical spots, the upper one being slender and short, the two lower large and 

 oval ; two medial discal similar spots, the upper one small, the other large and 

 broad ; below are two narrow ersmaller spots ; beyond is a submarginal row of eight 

 small narrow lunular spots, preceded by an inner submarginal, and followed by an 

 outer marginal slender obscure pale lunular line. Hindwing with a bluish-white 

 transverse inner discal band strongly divided by black veins, and an outer discal 

 macular band composed of seven somewhat quadrate spots, between these bands is a 

 medial discal slender obscure pale fascia, and beyond is a submarginal slender 

 obscure pale lunular line. Underside paler ; purpurescent-brown ; the markings, 

 as above, prominent, and opalescent bluish-white, the inner submarginal line on 

 forewing and medial discal line on hindwing being obscurely violescent-white; 

 hindwing also with a short basal costal bluish-white band. 



Expanse, (^ 2^-0, ? 2n) inches. 



Habitat. — Burma ; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra. 



Note. — This species is closely allied to A. Duryodana ; it differs from it in 

 having longer wings, and may be distinguished from it, on the forewing, by the 



