NYMPHALINM, (Group LniENITINA.) 3 



Khasia Hills by Colonel C. Swinlioe. The type specimen of the wet-season form 

 (Garticoides) and a second male, from Darjiling, is also in oui- possession. A male 

 of the wet-season form is also in the British Museum, and one from Sikkim in Mr. 

 W. Rothschild's collection. Mr. de Niceville also records "a single male of the 

 latter form, in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, taken in .Sikkim by Mr. Otto MoUer " 

 (Butt. Ind. ii. 90). 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 287, figs. 1, la, b, are from the 

 type male and female Cartica— the dry-season form, and figs. 1, c, d, from the type 

 male Garticoides — the wet-season form. 



BIMBISARA BURMANA (Plate 287, fig. 2, 2a, ^). 

 Neptis Burmana, de Niccville, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 188G, p. 251, pi. 9, fig. 9. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside black, with prominent white markings. Forevnng 

 with the discoidal streak narrow and deeply indented (or entirely divided in some) 

 at end of the cell ; the discal series of spots well separated, somewhat smaller and 

 more rounded than in B. Cartica, the three marginal lines distinct, but narrower, 

 the middle line white. Eindwing with the inner-discal ba,nd somewhat narrower 

 than in B. Gartica, the outer-discal band prominent, and somewhat macular ; 

 marginal line pale. Underside darker ferruginous than in Gartica, markings as 

 above, all very prominent, and pinkish-white. Hindwing also with a broad pinkish- 

 white basal band, and a slightly-defined medial discal sinuous fascia. 



Female. Upperside as in male; the markings less prominent aiid somewhat 

 sullied-white. Underside as in male. 



Expanse, c? 2^^^, ? 2^0 to 2^% inches. 



Habitat. — Burma ; Upper Tenasserim. 



Distribution. — Described by Mr. de Niceville from two males in Col. Marsliall's 

 collection, " both taken by Capt. C. T. Biugham, one on the Donat Range in January, 

 the other at Sekkam, Thoungyeen, in February " (de N. I.e. 2-51). Specimens of 

 both sexes, taken at Tilin Yaw, February, Mai'ch, and April, by Capt. E. Y. Watson, 

 during the Chin-Lnshai Expedition, are in the British Museum. Col. C. H. E. 

 Adamson has a male taken at Toungya, Sekkam, in February. We possess two 

 naales fro:ii the Upper Mekong, Shan States, Burma, taken by Mr. R. Roberts, O.E. 



BIMBISARA NASHONA (Plate 288, fig. 1, la, b, c, ^ ? ). 

 Neptis NasJwna, Swinlioe, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 189G, p. 357. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside olivescent fuliginous-black; markings 



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