NYMPHALIN^. (Group LIMEXITISA.) 17 



(P. Z. S. 1891, 274). Aa example of the male, very pale in colour (probably dnj- 

 season form), taken by Mr. Doherty in Upper Burma, has been figured and described 

 as N. asterastilis, by Mons. Oberthur. We possess both sexes from the late General 

 G. Ramsay's Nepal collection. Colonel C. Swinhoe has received several of both sexes 

 from Shillonof and the Khasia Hills. 



STABROBATES NARAYANA (Plate 295, fig. 1, la, S)- 



Neptis Narayana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 6, pi. 49, fig. 3, (J. de Xice^-ille, Butt, of India, 

 etc., ii. p. 87 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. UppeT'side olivescent fnliginous-black, with blacker intervening 

 bordering patches between the veins ; markings white or sullied ochreous-wliite ; 

 cilia alternated with white. Foreicing with a white elongated discoidal streak 

 extending along lower area of the cell to a short distance above and baso of the 

 upper median veinlet, the streak widely indented opposite the discocellulars ; three 

 very small slender streaks divided by the subcostals, beyond which are three 

 subapical outwardly-oblique spots, the upper short and vein-divided, the second 

 elongated, the third short and conically-triangidar, below these are two discal larger 

 conjoined spots placed above and below the middle median, the upper one being 

 narrow, the lower somewhat broadly-quadrate ; beneatli these are two smaller 

 inwardly-oblique conjoined spots ; beyond is a transverse submarginal lunular line, 

 the upper part of which is pale fuliginous, the lower whitish. Hindiidng crossed by 

 a broad sullied-white inner-discal band, and a narrower outer-discal lunular band, 

 followed by a very indistinctly-defined pale submarginal lunular line. Underside 

 dull brownish-red ; the white markings as above, but less prominent, and violaceous- 

 white. Forewing also with the costal base and upper cell area pale yellowish- 

 ochreous, the lower discal interspaces fuliginous ; outwardly bordering the subapical 

 spots are violaceous-white lunules ; the submarginal lunular line also partly 

 violaceous-white. Hindwing also with the veins basally, and basal interspaces 

 below the costal and subcostal, a medial discal zigzag line, and two submarginal 

 slender lines violaceous-white. 



Female. Upperside brighter olivescent-black ; markings pale ochreous-white. 

 Underside as in the male. Body and palpi above fuliginous-black ; palpi and thorax 

 beneath, and forelegs white ; middle and hind legs and abdomen beneath pale 

 ochreous. 



Expanse, <? 2-^fj to 2i^o, ? '^ro inches. 



H.^BiTAT. — Western Himalayas. 



DisTRiBCTiON. — The type specimen, and a male and female, from Naini Tal, 



