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NAHM AD A MONTANA (Plate 51, fig. 2, 2a, <$ ? ). 
Euphxa montana , Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 330 (1867), g 5 . 
Narmada montana , Moore, Lepidoptera of Ceylon, i. p. 13, pL 6, fig. 1,^(1880); Proc. Zool. Soc, 
Lond. 1883, p. 318. 
Enploea ( Stictoploea) montana , Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of Ifidia, i. p. 91 (1882), 
Euploea lanlcana , Moore, Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 44, <$. 
Stictoploea, Lankana , Butler, Journ. Linn. Soe. Zool. XIY. p. 302 (1878). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dark velvety olive-brown, paler externally. Fore - 
icing with a submarginal and a marginal row of very small indistinct ochreous-white 
spots, which are obsolescent anteriorly. Two elongated silky sexual marks between 
the lower median and submedian vein. Ilindiving with a submarginal and a marginal 
row of brownish-white spots, the former row oval from the anal angle and duplex 
anteriorly, the latter row smaller and round ; anterior border broadly glossy-cinereous. 
Underside paler; marginal white spots as above, those on the forewing more 
prominent. Forewing with a small violet-white costal spot above end of the cell, one 
at lower end of the cell, and a contiguous discal series beyond; sexual marks pale 
brown and longer than on upperside ; posterior margin cinereous. Hindwing with 
a small violet-white cell spot, and seven discal spots; some white spots at base of 
the wing. Body dark brown ; head, palpi, thorax above and beneath black, spotted 
with white; legs black, fore femora white beneath; abdomen beneath with grey 
bands. Female. Upperside as in the male, except the sexual marks, and in the 
posterior margin of the forewing being straight. Underside also as in the male ; 
two elongated whitish streaks above the submedian. 
Expanse, 8 to 3f inches. 
Habitat.— Ceylon. 
This species is similar in colour and pattern to the Ceylonese Crastia Asela and 
to Pademma Sinhala , but may be distinguished from them in the male possessing two 
sexual marks on the forewing, and in the female also having two elongated streaks 
on the underside above the submedian vein. 
Distribution. —It has been captured at Galle, Rambodde, and Kandy, and by 
Mr. F. M. Mackwood in the Navalpittia country. 
Allied Indo-Malatan species of Nabmada. —The only other known species of 
this genus is A. consimilis (Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 329, 1867), a female of 
which is in the collection of Messrs. G-odman and Salvin. Habitat . Java and 
Sumatra. 
The following allied genera and species also occur within the Indo-Malayan 
area, namely :— Nacamsa simillima (Moore, F. Z. S. 1883, p. 310; Semper, Reisen 
Archipel. Philippen. Lep. p. 32, pi. 4, fig. 1, 2, 3, c? ? (1886). Habitat . Luzon, 
Philippines.— N. Meldolce (Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 310; Semper, Reisen Archipel. 
