230 LEPIDOPTERA INDIGA. 



smaller, narrower, and are more or less sullied. Underside dark ferruginous; 

 markings as on upperside, very prominently black-edged. 



Expanse, c? 2 to 2 ^q, ? 2^q to 2-^q inches. 



Habitat. — Burma ; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra. 



DiSTEiBDTiON. — ^We possess specimens of the dry-season form from Toungoo, Moul- 

 main, Meetan, Moolai, and Nithoung Upper Tenasserim, taken by Mr. Wood-Mason 

 and Otto Limborg; from Sagaing, Mandalay, taken in February by Major C. H. E. 

 Adamson ; Karen HiUs, taken by Signor Fea, and from Mergui, taken by Dr. J. 

 Anderson. Of the wet-season form from Rangoon, taken in Juue by Capt. C. T. 

 Bingham ; Moolai ; Chittagong, taken in August and September by Major Adamson ; 

 Bhamo, November, and Mandalay, from Signor Fea. In the British Museum are 

 dry-season specimens from Tilin Yaw, taken in January, February, April, and May, 

 by Capt. E. Y. Watson. Dr. Anderson obtained it in "Mergui in December, and 

 on King Island in February " (J. Linn, Soc. Zool. 1886, 36). 



XEPTIS VARMONA. 



Neptis Varmona, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 561 (wet-season) ; Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 54, pi. 28, 



fig. 1, la (1881). de Nicc^ville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 95 (1886). 

 Neptis Kamarupa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 570 {dry-season). 

 Neptis Swinhoei, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 145, pi. 24, fig. 9, 3 {loet-season). 

 Neptis Eurymene, Butler, I.e. p. 145, pi. 24, fig. 5, c? (dry-season). 

 Neptis disTupta, Moore, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 39; Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 55, pi. 28, fig. 4, 4a, ? 



{aberration). 



Dry-season brood (Plate 276, fig. 1, larva and pupa; 1, a, b, c, d, cj ? ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Forewings elongated and subtriangular. Upperside 

 olivescent-black ; markings white, prominent and sharply defined ; cilia alternated 

 with white. Forewing. Upperside with the cell-streak broad, more or less slightly 

 indented near upper end or slightly partially divided by blackish scales ; triangular spot 

 beyond large, broad, and more or less prolonged to an acute point ; discal curved 

 series of spots large ; submarginal row of white lunular spots prominent; an inner 

 submarginal sinuous lunular line and an outer marginal lunular pale line. Hindwing 

 with a broad inner-discal band, and an outer-discal broad macular band composed of 

 quadrate spots ; a medial-discal more or less obscurely-defined whitish lunular line, 

 and a submarginal slender more defined white lunular line. Underside yellowish- 

 ferruginous ; white markings, as above, prominent, very slightly blackish-edged. 

 Forewing also with an inner submarginal slender white lunular line, and an outer 

 marginal lunular line. Hindwing also with a white short basal band and a short 



