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lights, bluisli-wliite. Forewing also with the discal interspaces darkest, and with a 

 slender inner subraarginal purplish-white lunular line. Hiiidwing also with a short 

 basal purplish-white bandj and a medial-discal sinuous band ; each of the outer 

 bands being also bent inward to the costa above the upper subcostal. 



Female. Upperside as in tlie male, the markings somewhat broader and 

 brighter pale olivescent yellowish-ochreous. Underside as in male. 



Expanse, c? 2-^q, ? 2]^o inches. 



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



Distribution. — The type specimen was taken in Moulmaiii. A male from 

 Meetan, and a female from Tenasserim taken in April by Col. Bingham, is in the 

 British Museum. Mr. W. Doherty found it not uncommon in E. Pegu during 

 March and April. " A male in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, was obtained by 

 Col. C. T. Bingham in the Mepley Valley, Upper Tenasserim, and one from the 

 Douat Range, taken in January, is in Major Marshall's collection" (de Niceville, 

 I.e. p. 92). It also occurs at Perak, Malay Peninsula. Specimens from Perak are 

 in Col. Swinhoe's collection. Males from Labuan, and Sarawak, Borneo, are 

 in the British Museum, and a male and female from Kinabalu, N. Borneo, is in 

 Mr. W. Rothschild's collection. Mr. de Niceville records it from Sumatra, 

 where it is found only in the Hills at 3000 feet elevation " (J. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1895, 409). 



Chinesk and Indo-Malayan Species. — Bimhimra Sinica (Neptis Amba (part). 

 Leech, Butt, of China, p. 199). Upperside blacker than in typical Amba (Sankaru), 

 the white discoidal streak on forewing and the two bands on hindwing comparatively 

 narrower. On the underside these bands are also narrower, and there is only one 

 narrow outer submarginal lunular line, in both sexes of Amba there are two. 

 Habitat. W. China. — Bimhisara Antonia (jSTeptis Antonia, Oberthiir, Etudes Entom. 

 1876, p. 22, pi. 4, fig. 3, S. 8yn. Neptis Amba, var. Leech, Butt. China, p. 199, 

 pi. 19, fig. 1, ? (1892). Habitat. Moupin, W. China. — Bimbisara micromegetlii^s 

 (Neptis micromegethes, Holland, Trans. Eut. Soc. Amer. 1887, p. 118. Habitat. 

 Hainan. — Bimbisara Omeroda {Flate 292, fig. 1, la, b, c, c? ? ), Neptis Omeroda, Moore, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 571). Male and female. Upperside dark olivescent 

 fuliginous-brown, with blacker intervening spaces between the veins ; banded with 

 paler fuliginous brown ; the upper series of transverse discal spots on forewing 

 narrow, almost oval in the female, the lower series rounded in both sexes. Under- 

 side dull purpurescent-brown in male, brighter brown in female, with black inter- 

 vening spaces between the markings, as above, the markings being pale fuliginous- 

 brown in male and violescent white in the female. Expanse, S 2^^), ? 2jq, to 

 2^, inches. Habitat. Penaug ; Singapore ; Sumatra ; Borneo. The type speci- 

 men of Omeroda now under examination, from Penang, a male from Sumatra 



