8 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Distribution. — We possess specimens from Sikkim, from Bhotan, taken by Mr. 

 G. C. Dudgeon, and from Cherra Punji and Khasia Hills. A specimen from the 

 Garro Hills is in Mr. W. Rothschild's collection. Colonel C. Swinhoe has received 

 numerous examples from the Khasia Hills. Mr. de Niceville records it, as Yikasi, 

 as " a common species in Sikkim, occurring at low elevations almost throughout the 

 year" (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 137). 



Mr. W. Doherty records Viliasi as " rare in the Sarju Valley at Kapkot, Kumaon, 

 at 4000 feet elevation " (J. A. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 125). This latter locality may 

 probably refer to the present species. 



BIMBISARA HARITA (Plate 291, fig. 2, 2a, b, c, (J ? ). 



Neptis Harita, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 571, pi. 66, fig. 8, ? . de Niceville, Butt, of India, 



etc., ii. p. 92 (1886). 

 Neptis Vikasi, Distant, Ehop. Malayana, p. 152, pi. 16, fig. 13, ? (1883)— reec Horsf. 

 Neptis Vikasi, var. Harita, Distant, id. p. 444, pi. 43, fig. 8, <?. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside olivescent fuliginous-brown, with blacker 

 intervening patches between the markings. Forewing with rather indistinct paler 

 olivescent-brown narrow discoidal streak and dentate discocellular mark, two trans- 

 verse discal series of obscure narrow pale black-bordered zigzag lunules, the upper 

 and lower pair in each series being broadest, and the one between the middle and 

 lower median of the inner series is broader and dentate in the female ; and two 

 submarginal similar slender lunular lines, these markings being somewhat more 

 distinct in the female. Hindioing with a paler narrow inner-discal transverse band 

 with dark outer border, beyond which is a blackish medial-discal macular fascia, 

 and then a submarginal row of pale-bordered blackish dentate-lunules, these 

 markings being mo.st distinct in the female. Underside brighter olive-brown ; 

 markings as above ; the cell-streak, discal, and outer lines being violet-white and 

 most prominent in the female. 



Expanse, 2 to 2j=^o inches. 



Habitat. — E. Bengal ; Assam ; Cachar ; Khasia Hills ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; 

 Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra; Borneo. 



Distribution. — We possess the male and female type specimens from " Eastern 

 Bengal." Mr. de Niceville records " a single specimen in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, taken in the Dunseri Valley, Upper Assam, and a male from Cachar, 

 taken in July by Mr. J. Wood-Mason " (Butt. Ind. 92). A female from Tezpore, 

 Assam, is in Mr. E. H. F. Rippon's collection. Colonel C. Swiuhoe possesses 

 specimens from the Khasias. There are also Assam and Khasia examples in Mr. W. 



