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marks piuk)' -n-hitc ; two narrow submarginal linos purple ; hiucl wing with inner band pinky 
white ; two submarginal and a less distinct middle line purjjlo ; costal margin at the base 
whitish. Expanse of wings 2~ inches." (Moore, I. c.) 
lu Chiuese specimens the submarginal ruff)us band of secondaries is very 
little naiTower 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-kow, 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. 
lleferring to the distribution of the species in India, Mr. de Niceville [l. c.) 
says that it is fairly common in Sikkim throughout the summer, and adds: — 
" I have taken numerous male examples in October, sucking up moistui-e from 
damp sand in the beds of streams." 
Distribution. Sikkim, Bhutan, Ivliasi Hills, Chittagong, Upper Tenasserim, 
Western China. 
Neptis amba. (Plate XIX. fig. l, var.) 
Neptis amba, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1858, p. 7, pi. xlix. fig. 4 ; de Niceville, Butt. 
Ind. ii. p. 88 (1886). 
? Limenitis antonia, Oberthur, Etud. d'Eutom. ii. p. .22, pi. iv. fig. 3 (1876). 
" Male. UppersiJe smoky brown ; markings white. Fore wing with long discoidal streak indented 
at the extremity of the cell ; two oblique spots near the apex, and four reversel}'- oblique spots 
to middle of posterior margin ; an indistinct marginal and submarginal black line. Hind 
■wing with rather broad inner 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, h 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. amba 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 fi'om Nepal, in which some of the markings ai'e 
faintly tinged with yellow. 
The yeUow form of ]S\ amba (Plate XIX. fig. 1) agrees very weU with 
