RIIOPALOCERA MALAYAN A* 



Genus LEBADEA (antca, p. 144). 



2. Lebadea ismene, 



Limrnirix UmM, Doubleday & Hewitson, Gen. Dium. Lep. t. 84, f. 2 (1850 j. 



Male. Very closely allied to L. non-tint t hut lar»t;i\ the ^nmncl colour rufous -red, and not brownish- 

 ochraceoua ; posterior wings with the discal oblique white fascia broader than in L. martha, and the space 

 between the fuscous lunulate spots and the submarginal line considerably broader than in the Fabrician 

 species. 



Exp. wings, $ t 55 to 60 niiilun, 



1 1 ah.— Continental India j Si 1 bet (coll. JJist.j. — Malay iV-uiusiihi ; Lmigk&wi Islands (coll. Birch and 

 Egerton). 



Genus NEPTIS (antea, p. 149). 

 18, Neptis miah. var. (Tab, XLL, fig. 14). 



Ntjdix Miah, Moore (Horaf. A Moere), Cat. Lep. Mas. E. L C, vol i. p. 104. n f t. 4a, f. 1 (1857) i Proo. 

 ZopL Soc. 1858, p, 4, a. 5. 



Mr, Moore has thus described his species ; — " Upper-side brown- black ; fort-wing with a longitudinal 

 streak from base of wing, an oblique transverse short apical fascia, and which nearly meets a reversely- 

 oblique fascia on posterior margin, rufous: hind-wiwj with a nearly straight broad inner band, and a 

 narrow submarginal band rufous* Under-side dark ferruginous: fore-wing with the longitudinal and 

 oblique marks pinky-white; two narrow submarginai lines purple: hind' wing with inner band pinky- 

 white ; two submarginal and a loss distinct middle line purple ; costal margin at the base whitish." 



Exp. wings, N 2| inches," 



Has— Continental India; Sikkim (de Niceville) ; Darjeeling (coll. Dist.).— Malay Peninsula ; Perak 

 (Kunstl.— coll, Ribbe), 



A single specimen of this species from the Malay Peninsula has alone passed through my 

 hands. This, as the figure shows, differs in some slight peculiarities— principally in the size 

 and shape of the rufous faseife to the anterior wings — from typical specimens from Darjeeliog; 

 but the differences are only slight, and such as are not uncommon in other species of the 

 genus. 



In Sikkim Mr. de Niceville found it ** not rare at low elevations. I took it settled to drink 

 on damp sand."* 



N, miah belongs to the section of the genus which contains N. titja, and is here arranged 

 after that species* 



5 a. Neptis vikasa, var. harita. (Tab. XLIIL, fig. 8). 

 Xrptis Harita, Moore, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 571, t. 66, f. 8. 



I here give Mr. Moore's original description of a specimen from E. Bengal : — 



" Male and female* Upperside olive-brown ; fore wing with paler and rather indistinct discoidal 

 streak and dentate disco-cellular mark; two transverse discal series of pale black-bordered zigzag lunules, 

 and a eubmargmal similar luntilar line ; hind wing with pale narrow subbasal transverse band, with dark 

 outer border, beyond which is a blackish fascia, and then a submarginal row of pale-bordered dark lunules 

 (these lunules being triangular in the female). Underside olive-brown \ markings as above, but whiter.' 1 



Exp, wings, 4t 2 inches." 



Hab.— Continental India; E. Bengal (Moore).— Malay Peninsula; Perak (KiinstK— colh Ribbe). 



* J, A, S. Eeng, vol, li. p. 68, a. 161 (1S82). 



