18 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Kumaon, at 6-300 feet elevation, taken by Col. A. M. Lang in May, is in the British 

 Museum ; also a female in the Hewitson collection. We possess two males from the 

 Western Himalayas. Mr. de Niceville i-ecords it as having been " taken by Col. 

 Lang at Naini Tal, rarely, at from 5500 to 6500 feet elevation, in the middle of 

 May" (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 276). The Indian Museum, Calcutta, possesses 

 specimens of both sexes from the Kulu Valley, taken in May by Mi*. A. Graham 

 Young, and others from Kunawur are in Col. Lans:'s collection, Mrs. Deane took a 

 single female at Chini in June " (de Niceville, I.e. 88). 



STABROBATES NANA (Plate 295, fig. 2, 2a, $). 

 Neptis Nana, de Niceville, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 276, pi. 13, fig. 1, ^ . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Both wings distinguished from N. Narayana by 

 having all the markings bright yellow-ochreous instead of white. Foreiving with 

 the submarginal band narrower. Underside ; both wings with the ground-colour 

 and pale violet markings of a deeper and richer shade of colour. Blndicing with 

 the submarginal band as above, narrower, the pale violet baud between it and the 

 discal band broader and better defined, and the marginal pale violet line nearer the 

 margin. 



Expanse, c? 2^-^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Bhotan. 



Distribution. — " There are three males in the collection of Messrs. Otto Moller 

 and A. V. Knyvett, taken in April and Juoe by their native collectors in Bhotan " 

 (de N. I.e. 276). A male from Darjiling, taken by Col. Lidderdale, is in the British 

 Museum. 



STABROBATES MAN ASA (Plate 295, fig. 3, 3a, i). 



Neptis Mariana, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 1G5, pi. 4a, fig. 2, (^(1857) ; id. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 5. lie Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 87 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark fuliginous-brown ; markings pale yellowish- 

 white ; cilia alternated with white. Forewing with an elongated entire discoidal 

 streak, which is continuous with the discal spots, extending elongatedly between 

 the upper medians and there joins the lower discal spot, below which are the two 

 inwardly-oblique conjoined spots on the posterior margin ; from the costa before 

 the subapical spots are three minute pure white costal spots placed obliquely 

 outward ; an outwardly-oblique subapical streak composed of a minute costal streak, 

 an elongated fusiform spot and a third short somewhat quadrate spot, below which 



