LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



streams" (Indian Agriculturist, July, 1880). Col. Lang states tliat "it has the 

 same flight as N. Astola, but more fond of pitching on the ground in the shade of 

 trees and rocks" (MS. Notes). 



BIMBISARA aUILTA (Plate 290, fig. 1, la, c? {dry.scason), fig. lb, c, d, e, S ^ (wet-season brood). 

 Neptis Quilt a, Swinhoe, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 408, ^ $ . 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside olivescent-black, the veins outwardly 

 lined with olivescent greyish-brown. Forewing with the discoidal streak, and 

 transverse discal bands on both wings, as in B. SanJcara, but all narrower, smaller, 

 and less prominent, those of the male, in the dry-season brood, being sullied-white, 

 and of both sexes in the wet-season brood more or less olivescent-white ; in some 

 freshly-captured females the bands being slightly tinted with very pale yellowish- 

 ochreous ; the outer marginal lunular lines brownish-grey. Underside darker 

 purpurescent ferruginous-brown ; all the markings similar, but comparatively 

 narrower, as above, and less prominent. 



Expanse, c? 2i^q to 2^^, ? 3 inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkira ; Bhotan ; Jaintia, Garro and Naga Hills ; Burma, 



Distribution. — The type specimens are recorded from Cherra Punji; Colonel 

 Swinhoe has also examples from the Jaiutia and Naga Hills ; a male from the Garro 

 Hills is in Mr. W. Rothschild's collection. "We have it also from E. Pegu, taken by 

 Mr. W. Doherty, and from Bhotan, taken by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon. Specimens 

 from Sikkim, taken by Mr. Dudgeon in June, and from E. Pegu, 500 to 2000 feet 

 elevation, taken by Mr. Doherty in March and April, are in the British Museum. 



Note. — The female of Pantoporia Zeroca is, apparently, a mimic of this species. 



BIMBISARA NAR (Plate 288, fig. 2, 2a, 9 ). 

 N'e2Jtis Nar, de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 3i9, pi. F. fig. 6, ? . 



Imago. — " Female, Upperside brownish-black, with blacker intervening border- 

 ing patches between the veins ; cilia slightly alternated with white. Forewing with 

 an elongated pale brownish-ochreous streak occupying lower half of the cell and 

 joined to a discocellular triangular ochreous-white spot beyond ; three subapical 

 outwardly-oblique conjoined ochreous-white spots, their edges tinged with darker 

 ochreous, the upper spot slender, very small ; four inwardly-oblique ochreous-white 

 spots, the two upper being discal, the others on posterior margin, the uppermost 

 spot composed of a clump of ochreous scales only, the next rounded, the two 



