Lepidoptera of Sikkim. 345 
134. Neptis vikasi. 
Neptis vikasi, Horsf., Cat. Lep. H.1.C., t. v., figs. 2, 
2a (1822); Butt. Ind., 11, p. 91. 
Not uncommon up to about 3000 ft. from March to 
November. 
135. Neptis varmona.* 
Neptis varmona, Moore, P. Z.8., 1872, p. 561; Butt. 
Ind., 11.,.p. 95. 
N. kamarupa, Moore, P. Z.8., 1874, p. 570; Butt. 
Ind: 11..0.0e. 
N. adara, Moore, P. Z.§., 1878, p. 880; Butt. Ind., 
i, p. 9%. 
This, which is one of the widest-ranging of all the 
Indian species of Neptis, is not uncommon in the lower 
valleys of Sikkim. I have also taken it at Bombay and 
in the Khasia Hills, and have it from many other parts 
of India, Ceylon, Burmah, and Tenasserim under the 
name of adara, and also from China, Formosa, and 
Borneo. I see no possibility at present of separating 
the varieties under different names, and, though de 
Nicéville keeps the two which are called adara and 
kamarupa separate in the ‘ Butterflies of India,’ he says 
that he cannot distinguish adara; and Méller and de 
Nicéville both believe that kamarupa is almost certainly 
the dry-weather form of varmona. 
136. Neptis astola. 
Neptis astola, Moore, P. Z.8., 1872, p. 560; Butt. 
tnd... 1.5. p- 99: 
N. emodes, Moore, l. c., p. 561, t. xxxil., fig. 2; Butt. 
Ind, ti p. 99. 
Though this species is nearly allied to varmona, it can 
be distinguished, I think with certainty, by the chocolate- 
red rather than ochreous-colour of the under side. I am, 
however, quite unable, as is de Nicéville, to see how to 
distinguish emodes from astola. It is a common species 
* I am very doubtful whether this is not identical with N. 
Eurynome, West., Don. Ins. China, p. 66. Since writing the above 
I have received specimens from Kiukiang, China, identified by 
Leech with Hurynome, which only differ in size from Indian and 
hardly at all from Burmese specimens of varmona. 
