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LEPIDOFTERA INDIGA. 



Neptis Cacharica, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 3, $ [dry-season). 



Neptis leuconafa, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1879, p. 511, pi. 69, fig. 1, ? (dry-season). Distant, 

 Khop. Malay, p. 154, pi. 17, fig. 14 (1883). 



Dry-season hrood (Plate 283, fig. ], la, b, c, (^ $ ). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside olivescent -black, with blacker intervening 

 spaces between the veins ; markings yellowish-white. Forewing with a broad cell- 

 streak and elongated contiguous spot, discal curved series of spots rather large and 

 oval ; submarginal lunulas slender and slightly defined, inner submarginal sinuous 

 line and outer marginal pale line very obscure. Hindioing with a broad inner-discal 

 band, and a narrower outer-discal linearly-lunular band; medial-discal and marginal 

 pale line very obscure. Underside brownish-ferruginous ; markings as above, 

 prominently white; cell-streak and elongated spots slightly conjoined; inner and 

 outer marginal line on forewing, basal streaks and medial discal sinuous line, and 

 outer marginal lines on hindwing lilacine-white. 



Expanse <? In) to 2^^, ? 2^q to 2^^ inches. 



Wet-season hrood (Plate 283, fig. 1, d, e, f, g, (^ ? ). 



Male and female. Upperside ; ground-colour duller olivescent-black ; with 

 somewhat more or less narrower and smaller markings, which are more or less sullied 

 fuliginous-white, the outer discal band on hindwing distinctly more fuliginous and 

 linear. Underside darker brownish-ferruginous ; markings brighter and washed 

 with purpurescent-white. 



Expanse, S 2 ^o to 2j^o» ? ^lO to 2^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Kumaon ; Sikkim; Assam; Khasia and Naga Hills; Burma; 

 Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula. 



Distribution. — It is recorded by Mr. W. Doherty from " Kali Valley, 2-3000 feet 

 elevation, Kumaon" (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 125). In our own collection are several 

 males of the dry 'season form from Sikkim, taken in March by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon, 

 both sexes from Cherra Punji, Khasias, males from the Upper Mekong, Shan States, 

 Burma, taken by Mr. R. Roberts, C.B., and a female from Elphinstone Island, 

 Mergui, taken in March by Dr. J. Anderson. Also both sexes of the weUseason form 

 from Sikkim, taken in July, both sexes from the Khasias, a male from Bayah Chong, 

 Burma, taken in February by Colonel 0. H. B. Adamson, and a female from Chitta- 

 gong Hills, taken in August. Colonel Swinhoe has numerous specimens from Cherra 

 Punji and the Khasias. Both sexes of the dry-season form from Tuckvor, Darjiling, 

 taken in May, males of both forms from the Naga Hills, and a male of the wet form 

 from Muong Gnow, Shan States, taken in July, are in Mr. W. Rothschild's collection. 

 Colonel Adamson records it as " common in the hilly parts of Burma " (List 1897, 



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