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marks pinky ■white; two narrow submarginal lines purple ; hiud wing with inner band pinky 
■white ; two submarginal and a less distinct middle line purple ; costal margin at the base 
■whitish. Expanse of wings 2| inches." {Moore, I. c.) 
In Chinese specimens the submarginal rufous band of secondaries is very 
little narrower than the central band, and this last is not quite so wide as in 
Indian specimens. 
I have only received N. miah from Moupin, Omei-shan, Wa-ssu-koAV, and 
Pu-tsu-fong in Western China, where it occurs in June and July at altitudes 
ranging from about 4000 to nearly 10,000 feet. 
Referring to the distribution of the species in India, Mr. de Niceville(^. c.) 
says that it is fairly common in Sikkim throughout the summer, and adds : — 
" I have taken numerous male examples in October, sucking ujj moisture from 
damp sand in the beds of streams." 
Distribution. Sikkim, Bhutan, Khasi Hills, Chittagong, Upper Tenasserim, 
Western China. 
Neptis amba. (Plate XIX. fig. l, var.) 
Neptis amba, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1858, p. 7, pi. xlix. fig. 4 ; de Niceville, Butt. 
Ind. ii. p. 88 (1886). 
? Limenitis antonia, Oberthiir, Etud. d'Entom. ii. p. 22, pi. iv. fig. 3 (1876). 
" Male. Uppcrside smoky brown ; markings white. Fore wing ■svith long discoidal streak indented 
at the extremity of the cell; two oblique spots near the apex, and four reversely- oblique spots 
to middle of posterior margin ; an indistinct marginal and submarginal black line. Hind 
wing with rather broad iimer band and narrow brownish-white outer band ; marginal and 
submarginal band darker. Underside dark ferruginous ; markings as on upperside, but the 
marginal and submarginal lines, base of costal margin, and streak near base of hind wing 
also white." {Moore, I. c.) 
The. female has the outer margin of primaries rounder, but does not otherwise differ from the male. 
Expanse, o 74-80 millim., 2 80 millim. 
In some examples of N. amha from Western China all the markings on 
upper surface are yellow, but paler in some specimens than in others. In all 
the central band of secondaries becomes whitish on the abdominal margin. 
The under surface is usually as in the type, but sometimes the markings on 
primaries are slightly tinged with yellowish. Mr. Moore has in his collection 
two specimens of this species from Xepal, in Avhich some of the markings are 
faintly tinged vaXh. yellow. 
The yeUow form of N. amha (Plate XIX. fig, 1) agrees very well with 
