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wing by a medial row of yellow spots. Underside very dark greyish 

 brown, brownest at the base within the irregular medial transverse 

 line, and covered with minute black strigse ; a transverse discal row 

 of hardly perceptible small black spots with pale borders ; a white 

 comma-like mark on hind wing. 



Expanse 2g inches. 



Hab. Katmandu, Nepal; Goolmurg, N.E. of Cashmere. In 

 Coll. Capt. A. M. Lang and F. Moore. 



Genus Lebadea, Felder. 



Lebadea atjstenia. (Plate XXXII. fig. 1.) 



Male. Upperside dark chocolate-brown, with purple reflections : 

 both wings crossed by a pale lunular band, extending from the costa 

 of fore wing beyond the cell to hind wing above the anal angle ; 

 exterior to this is a transverse series of pale-bordered dark brown 

 lunules, those on the fore wing being most prominent and zigzag 

 from the costa, where they are white-bordered, and thence decreasing 

 on to the hind wing ; space outside these to exterior margin pale 

 brown with a dark brown submarginal and marginal line ; cell of fore 

 wing crossed by six and that of hind wing by four black streaks ; 

 cilia white. Underside greyish brown, whitish grey at base ; marked 

 as above, but having the outer band with all the lunules white-bor- 

 dered, except the two lower ones on both wings, which are nearly 

 black. Palpi, legs, and body beneath greyish white. 



Expanse 3 inches. 



Hab. Khasia Hills {Major H. H. Godwin-Austen). In Coll. F. 

 Moore and India Museum, Calcutta. 



Neptis astola. 



Genus Neptis, Fabr. 

 Aceris group. 



Allied to, but differs from N. aceris of Europe in having the 

 wings shorter and broader, the markings on the upperside more pro- 

 minent, and those on the underside more clearly defined by a black 

 border, by which they are all margined. 



Expanse, 6* If, $ 1|- inch. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas (Simla, Masuri). In Coll. F. Moore. 



Neptis mahendra. (Plate XXXII. fig. 3.) 



Male and female. Upperside black : wings elongated, as in the 

 European N. aceris ; markings white, and disposed as in that spe- 

 cies, but more prominent and broader than in any other known allied 

 species of this group, being broader even than in N. nandina. 

 Underside deep brownish ferruginous : markings white, broad, their 

 borders imperceptibly black-margined, not prominently so as in 

 N. astola or N. varmona : middle band of hind wing narrowing to 

 abdominal margin. 



Expanse, <3 2, $ 2| inches. 



