NYMPIIALID.E. NYMPHALIN/E, NEPTIS. 85 



N. radha is the largest of the Indian species of Neptis, and one of the most distinct. On 

 the upperside of the foiewing it has two small pale streaks on the costa within the subapical 

 band and divided by the second subcostal nervule as in N. narayana and N. vianasa, but in no 

 other Indian species. The underside is beautifully variegated with violaceous, there is a 

 conspicuous violet spot closing the upper outer end of the cell of the forewing ; five spots 

 in a transverse band from the costa to the third median nervule beyond the cell divided by the 

 veins, and a large irregular divided subapical violet patch. The hindwing is widely banded 

 with violet, there is a small ferruginous ring near the middle of the cell, beyond which 

 is a curved pair of fine ferruginous lines joined at each end, all the bands on the outer half of 

 the hindwing are highly lunulate. 



N. radha is a rare species. Mr. Moller has obtained a single specimen in Sikkim in the 

 spring; I took a worn male at about 4,000 feet elevation below Darjiling in October ; and 

 Mr. Wood-Mason obtained a single male on Nemotha, Cachar, in September. 



362. ITeptiS miah, Moore. 



N. vtiah, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 164, n. 339, pi. 'wa, fig. i 

 (1857); idem, id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1S58, p. 4, n. 5. 



Habitat : Sikkim, Bhutan, Khasi Hills, Assam, Chittagong, Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse : 2-25 to 2*40 inches. 



Description : " Upperstde brown-black. Foreioiitg with a longitudinal streak from 

 base of wing [indented at the end of the cell], an oblique transverse short apical fascia, and 

 which nearly meets a reversely-oblique fascia on posterior margin, rufous. Hindwing with a 

 nearly straight broad inner band, and a narrow [curved] submarginal band, rufous. Under- 

 side dark ferruginous. Fornving with the longitudinal and oblique marks pinky-white ; two 

 narrow submarginal lines purple. Hindwing vi'ith inner band pinky-white ; two submarginal 

 and a less distinct middle line purple ; costal margin at the base whitish." Qloore, 1. c. in 

 Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C) The markings of the female are rather paler than in the male. 



N. miah is a fairly common species in Sikkim throughout the summer, and I have taken 

 numerous male examples in October sucking up moisture from damp sand in the beds of 

 streams. Mr. H. M. Parish has taken a single female in the Chittagong district in November, 

 and Mr. J. L. Sherwill a male at Hulunguri in the Jorehat district, Assam, in March. In 

 Major Marshall's collection there is a male taken in February at Sekkan, and two females 

 taken in March and April in the Thoungyeen forests, Upper Tenasserim. 



363- Neptis ananta, Moore. 



iV. ananta, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus, E. I. C, vol. i, p. 166, n. 342, pi. \va, fig. 3 

 (1857) ; idem, id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p. 5, n. 7 ; idem, id., in Anderson's Anat. and Zool. Researches, 

 p. 924 (1878). 



Habitat : Himalayas, Sylhet, Assam, Yunan. 



Expanse : 2-5 to 28 inches. 



Description : " Upperside brownish-black ; markings ferruginous. Fo)Tu'ing with 

 discoidal streak straight [indented at the end of the cell] ; a curved twice-interrupted band from 

 anterior margin near apex to middle of posterior margin ; a pale marginal line. Hind-iviug with 

 rather broad inner and narrow outer band, both extending across the abdominal margin ; also 

 a pale marginal line and line between the bands. Underside very deep ferruginous. Fore- 

 win" with discoidal streak, spots near apex and from posterior margin, ferruginous-white ; 

 posterior margin broadly patched with black ; a marginal and submarginal bluish-ashy line. 

 Hindwing with inner band white, outer band grey and indistinct ; a marginal line and zigzag 

 line between the two bands bluish-ashy." [,Moorc, 1. c. in Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C.) Female 

 has the markings rather broader and paler than in the male. 



The Western Himalayan specimens of N- ananta differ from those from Sylhet and 

 Assam in having the bands of the upperside much paler ; in the former they are ochreous, 



