344 Mr. H. J. Elwes’ catalogue of the 
This rare and beautiful species has not been previously 
recorded as occurring in Sikkim, but I took a single 
fresh male, which agrees with the type of the species, 
in the forest near the Rangbi jhora, on the road to 
Serail, at 6000 ft., on June 7th. It is possible that 
those I saw flying about the tops of the trees near the 
same place may have been N. manasa, and not zaida, 
as I at the time supposed.* 
132. Neptis amba. 
Neptis amba, Moore, P. Z. §., 1858, p. 7, t. xlix., fig. 4; 
Butt. Ind., ii., p. 88. 
N. carticoides, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, 
p. 809; Butt. Ind., ii., p. 90. 
A rare species in Sikkim, which occurs in the lower 
valleys before and after the rains. I have three males 
and one female only, which, though they belong to what 
Moller and de Nicéyille call carticoides, are, in my 
opinion, barely distinguishable from amba of the North- 
west Himalaya and Nepal. ‘The wider and purer white 
bands of amba, which are considered to distinguish it 
from carticoides, vary considerably in both forms. I 
have amba from Kangra and Nepal, named by Moore, 
and from Chumba and Mandi in both sexes. The four 
females of the north-western form are certainly more 
fuliginous than in the Sikkim female; and one male 
from Mandi, which probably would be called N. amboides 
by Moore, has the bands quite as narrow as those from 
Sikkim. 
133. Neptis cartica. 
Neptis cartica, Moore, P. Z.§., 1872, p. 562; Butt. 
Ind., ii.; p. 89. 
This is a distinct species, intermediate between the 
last and N. vikasi, but nearer to N. amba, from which it 
is distinguished by the narrower bands, less pure white, 
and by the markings of the under side. From vikast 
it is easily known by its much paler colour and purer 
white bands. It is not uncommon in the lower valleys 
from April to October. 
* August, 1888. I have just heard from Mr. Moller that a male 
of Neptis narayana, previously only known from the North-west, 
has been taken on Tonglo last July. 
