190 LEPIJDOPTERA INBICA. 



marginal line. Underside ochreous-brown, with blackish diffused patches intervening 

 between the veins ; markings bluish-white as above. Foreiving also with a short 

 narrow subbasal white band, and bluish-grey abdominal mai'giu. 



Female. TJpperside dark olivescent ochreous-brown ; markings pale dull 

 olivescent-ochreous, these are similar in shape and are disposed as in the female of 

 P. Nefte and nivifera, but are all narrower and much less defined. Underside paler, 

 and duller ochreous-brown than the upperside, with diffused blackish intervening 

 patches between the veins ; markings as on upperside, but duller and very pale 

 violaceous-Avhite. Einchving also with a pale violaceous-white subbasal band. 

 Body and palpi above brownish-black ; thorax and abdomen with a bluish-white 

 baud in the male, and a pale olivescent-ochreous baud in the female ; body, palpi, 

 and legs beneath greyish-white ; antennge black, tip reddish. 



Expanse, c? 2i^o to^^Q, ? 2j^o to ^ib inches. 



Habitat. — Assam ; Eastern Bengal ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula, etc. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — A male, labelled, Assam, is in Mr. Walter Eothschild's collection. 

 A female, verified as Subrata, was taken in Eastern Bengal by Mr. A. E. Russell 

 (P. Z. S. 1865, 763). Captain E. Y. Watson obtained a " single male at Poungadaw, 

 Upper Burma" (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1888, 5). Dr. J. Anderson took "two 

 males at Minthantoung in December, and three females (Subrata) in Mergui, in 

 December and March" (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 37). Mr. W. L. Distant records 

 it from Malacca and Province Wellesley, Malay Peninsula (I.e. p. 161). It also 

 occurs in Sumatra, and Borneo. We have verified specimens of both sexes from 

 Sandakan, N. Borneo, in Mr. D. Gator's collection, taken in January, February, 

 April, May, and July. We have it also from Malacca, Singapore, and Sarawak. 



Mimicry. — The female of this species has the coloration and markings of a 

 ]S"eptis, and is probably a mimic of N. Anjana, Harita, or Omeroda. 



PANTOPORIA INARA. 



Dry-season brood (Plate 264, fig. 1, la, h, ^ ? ). 

 Linienitie Inara, Doubleday and Hevvitson, Gen. D. Lep. ii. pi. 34, fig. 3, ^ (1850). 

 Athyma Inara, Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. ii. p. 274 (1850). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 179 

 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purpurescent brownish-black, with blacker inter- 

 vening bordering to the markings ; cilia slightly alternated with white. Both wings 

 crossed by a broad discal bluish-white band edged with darker blue scales. Forexoing 

 also with a narrow bluish-white speckled obscure ochreous streak in the cell, a more 

 prominent whiter spot at its end, and a white-speckled obscure triangular spot 

 beyond the cell ; the discal band composed of three large white subapical oblique 



