508 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIIL 



BHAGADA.TTA AUSTENIA, Moore. 



Only the wet-season form appears to have been described. The dry- 

 season yis?«a^e differs from the wet-season /em«Ze in being larger. Upperside : 

 paler brown ; post discal and subterminal bands much paler ; subterminal 

 lunules on forewing conspicuously whiter and on hindwing in one specimen 

 outwardly bordered with white. Underside : ground colour paler ; brown 

 markings darker. 



Two females obtained near the Lengha and Iraug Rivers, on the Cachar 

 Road, Manipur, in April and May. 



Many males and five females of the wet-season form were obtained at 

 Kirbari, Naga Hills, at about 6,000' from July to September. It is by no 

 means a common butterfly. 



Bhagadatta ausxenia pukpurascens, sub-sp. nov. 



Under the above name I propose separating the form of austenia which 

 occurs in the Abor Hills, and which differs from Naga Hills specimens in 

 having on the upperside of the males the ground colour strongly suffused 

 with purple ; and in having the subterminal lunules, in both sexes, from 

 apex of forewing to interspace 3 much whiter and more distinct. Under- 

 side: the markings in both sexes are darker and stand out more clearly. 



Female. Upperside: as in typical form. Underside: as in male. 



The intensity of the purple suffusion is somewhat variable ; five out of my 

 eight specimens have it more marked than the other three. In the typical 

 form this suffusion is only faintly discernible and sometimes absent ; in no 

 specimens before me is it nearly as intense as in any of the Abor Hills forms. 

 Eight males and a female were taken by Captain Porter on the Dihang 

 River, Abor Hills, at about 3,000' in June and July and kindly presented 

 by him to me, 



AxHYMA LAKYMNA, Doubleday. 



Five males and a female were taken near Sebong, Manipur, in March and 

 Jidy respectively. 



This is an interesting capture, for although Westwood recorded it from 

 Northern India, de Niceville thought this to be probably incorrect and did 

 not include it in his " Butterflies of India. " Bingham gives its habitat as 

 the Malayan Subregion, extending into Tenasserim. 



Neptis nemorum phesimensis, sub.-sp. nov. (PL III, Fig. 24). 



Very close to -ZV". nemorum, Oh. Oberthur, but differs from the original 

 figure in the " Etudes de Lepidopterlogie comparee, " pi. viii, fig. 3, 1906, in 

 having on the underside all the brown markings much darker with a purplish 

 black tinge. Forewing with yellow markings very similar. Hindwing : the 

 median yellow band much broader ; the post median brown band also 

 slightly broader and the terminal broad yellow area consequently narrower, 

 which moreover is not bordered inwardly with dark brown as in the typical 

 form. Interspaces 6 and 7 nearly entirely suffused with purple. 



Expanse : S S 2-45— 2 -6". 



Eighteen males were taken by my Native collectors from the middle of 

 May to the beginning of June, in a nullah near Yakama, Naga Hills, at 

 about 6,000', 



Neptis kirbariensis, n. sp. (PI. Ill, Fig. 19 c?). 



This may possibly be a race of N. cydippe. Leech, from Oentral and 

 Western Ohina, but from Seitz's figure of which it differs in the following 

 respects : — 



Upperside : yellow markings much paler and buffy yellow slightly darker 

 near the edges. Forewing : preapical and post median spots much larger. 



