NYMPHALINjE. (Group LUtEyiTINA ) 25 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Bhotan ; E. Bengal; Orissa ; S. [adia; Burma; Upper 

 Tenasserim. , 



Distribution.— This is a rare species. Mr. de Niccville " took a single female 

 in the Sikkim Terai in October, and Mr. Otto Moller has one specimen also from 

 Sikkim, taken in May. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has examples from Busa, 

 Bhotan, a male taken by Mr. AV, C. Taylor in Orissa, in March, another from the 

 Wynaad, S. India, taken by Mr. Rhodes-Morgan, and a third from Cannanore. 

 Major Marshall has a single female, taken in the Thoungyeen foi'ests, Upper 

 Tenasserim, in March. The four latter specimens differing from Himalayan 

 females in having the submarginal band on upperside of hindwing nearly as broad 

 as the discal band " (Butt. Ind. ii. 86). " Very rare in Sikkim, occurs in the Terai 

 and low Valleys, probably throughout the summer " {id. Sikkim Gaz. 1894, 136). 

 Colonel C. Swinhoe has examples of both sexes from Kawar, S. India, and from 

 Shillong, Khasia Hills. Mr. G. F. Hampson I'ecords " one specimen taken on the 

 Western Slopes of the Nilgiris at 500 feet, in October " (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 352). 

 Mr. H. S. Ferguson found it " rare in Travancore, two specimens being taken near 

 Trevandrum in July" (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1891, 8). Capt. E. Y. Watson took 

 "two specimens at Kathlekan, Mysore, in November" (id, 1890, 4). According to 

 Messrs. Davidson and Aitken, it is not very common in the N. Kanara District, 

 Bombay, but appears to be generally distributed " {id. 1896, 251). Col. C. H. E. 

 Adamson records it as very uncommon at Bhamo, Upper Burma (List, 1897, 20). 

 Capt. B. Y. Watson obtained three specimens at Tilin, in March and April, during 

 the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90 (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 38). A male from 

 Naga Hills, and a female of the dry-season brood, from Atarum, Upper Tenasserim, 

 taken by Capt. C. T. Bingham in March, is in Mr. W, Rothschild's collection. 



Habits and Food-plant of Laeva. — " The larva of Viraja was discovered by Mr. 

 T. R. Bell, in the Kanara District of Bombay. It feeds on the Blackwood tree, 

 Dalhergia latifolia, and also on D. racemosa, and has similar habits to that of R. 

 Hordonia, cutting through a leaf-stalk in such a way that all the leaflets beyond the 

 cut part hang over ; then it cuts off each leaflet of the pendant part, joins it to the 

 stem with silk, and lives in the house of dead leaves thus iormed, feeding on the 

 dead leaves" (Davidson and Aitken, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, 251, 351). 



Note. — This species, 8. Viraja, is probably mimicked by the females of 

 Pantaporia Inara and of P. Selcnophora. 



STABROBATES MIAH. • 



Neptis Miah, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. Ind. Company, i. p. 164, pi. 4a, fig. 1, S (1S57) ; Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 4. de Nice'ville, Butt of India, etc., ii. p. 85 (1886). 

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