92 NYMPHALID/E. NYMPHALINyE. NEPTIS. 



375- NoptlS h,arita, Moore. 



N. harita, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 571, pi. Ixvi, fig. 8. 



Habitat : E, Bengal, Assam, Cachar, Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse : 2'0 to 2*3 inches. 



Description: "Male and female. Upperside olive-brown. Foreiving with paler 

 and rather indistinct discoidal streak and dentate disco-cellular mark ; two transverse discal 

 series of pale black-bordered zigzag lunules, and a submarginal similar lunular line. Hindiving 

 with pale narrow subbasal transverse band, with dark outer border, beyond which is a 

 blackish fascia, and then a submarginal row of pale-bordered dark lunules (these lunules 

 being triangular in the female). Underside olive-brown ; markings as above, but whiter." 



" Allied to A. vikasi, but may be distinguished from it by its smaller size, less-distinct 

 markings, and in the submarginal band of the hindwing being formed of distinct lunules." 

 (^Moore, 1. c.) 



In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is a single specimen of this species from the Dunseri 

 Valley, Upper Assam, a male taken in July in Cachar by Mr. Wood-Mason, and one male 

 taken by Capt. C. H. E. Adamsou in February in the Meplay Valley and another from Kannee 

 in October, both in Upper Tenasserim, in Major Marshall's collection. They are smaller than 

 typical N. vikasi, but differ in other respects only in the two submarginal pale lines on the 

 upperside of the hindwing being lunular, coalescing and enclosing a submarginal band of 

 dark spots. 



376. ITeptis anjana, Moore. 



N. anjana, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 309. 



Habitat : Moulmein, Meplay Valley. 



Expanse : 2-5 to 27 inches. 



Description : " Male. Upperside very dark olivaceous-brown. Forewing with a 

 slender but not very prominent, ochreous-brown narrow discoidal streak, a curved discal 

 macular band, a submarginal and a less distinct marginal line. Hindwing with a slender 

 transverse subbasal band, a recurved discal band, and narrower but less distinct marginal line. 

 Underside dark chestnut-red. Foreiving with the discoidal streak, transverse outer bands 

 glossy purplish blue, the lower part of the discal band being pale ochreous. Hindwing with 

 two medial, two discal bands, a very slender marginal glossy purplish blue and a broad paler 

 basal band. Allied to N. ananta." {Moore, 1. c.) 



N. anjana on the upperside is nearest allied to N. vikasi, the markings, however, being even 

 more obscure, but is altogether much blacker, and the brown streaks narrower and straighter. 

 On the underside the ground-colour is very different, being dark chestnut-red, in this respect 

 beinc nearest to IV. ananta. The markings are distinctly glossed with purplish. There is a 

 single male in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, obtained by Captain C T. Bingham in the 

 Meplay Valley, Upper Tenasserim, and one from the Donat range taken in January in Major 

 Marshall's collection, also obtained by Captain Bingham. Mr. Moore has noted on the former 

 specimen that it is " darker than type," so like most of the species of Neptis, N. anjana is 

 subject to variation ; it is, however, one of the most distinct species of the genus. 



The second subgroup has the discoidal streak completely divided below the base of the 

 discoidal nervules, leaving a triangular white spot beyond. It contains the typical species 

 of the genus allied to the European forms. The bands are white, pure white in most, but 

 slightly tinted with fuliginous in some. On the underside, there is no trace of violet tinting 

 except in three species [N. nata and its allies) in which the bands on both sides are tinted 

 with blue ; the ground-colour is ochreous or ferruginous on the underside, very uniform in 

 the typical species, and the bands and spots are more sharply defined than in the preceding 

 groups. 



