NYMPH ALIN jE. (Group LIMENITIXA) 
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Habitat. —Sikkim; Bhotan; E. Bengal; Orissa; S. India; Burma; Upper 
Tenasserim. 
Distribution. —This is a rare species. Mr. de Niceville “ took a single female 
in the Sikkim Terai in October, and Mr. Otto Moller has one specimen also from 
Sikkim, taken in May. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has examples from Buxa, 
Bhotan, a male taken by Mr. W. C. Taylor in Orissa, in March, another from the 
Wynaad, S. India, taken by Mr. Bhodes-Morgan, and a third from Cannanore. 
Major Marshall has a single female, taken in the Thoungyeen forests, Upper 
Tenasserim, in March. The four latter specimens differing from Himalayan 
females in having the submarginal band on upperside of hind wing nearly as broad 
as the discal band ” (Butt. Ind. ii. 86). “ Very rare in Sikkim, occurs in the Terai 
and low Valleys, probably throughout the summer ” {id. Sikkim Gaz. 1894, 136). 
Colonel C. Swinhoe has examples of both sexes from Kawar, S. India, and from 
Shillong, Khasia Hills. Mr. G. F. Hampson records “ one specimen taken on the 
Western Slopes of the Nilgiris at 500 feet, in October ” (J. A. S. Beng. 1888, 352). 
Mr. H. S. Ferguson found it “rare in Travancore, two specimens being taken near 
Trevandrum in July ” (J. Bombay 1ST. H. Soc. 1891, 8). Capt. E. Y. Watson took 
“ two specimens at Kathlekan, Mysore, in November ” {id. 1890, 4). According to 
Messrs. Davidson and Aitken, it is not very common in the N. Kanara District, 
Bombay, but appears to be generally distributed ” {id. 1896, 251). Col. C. H. E. 
Adamson records it as very uncommon at Bhamo, Upper Burma (List, 1897, 20). 
Capt. E. Y. Watson obtained three specimens at Tilin, in March and April, during 
the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90 (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 38). A male from 
Naga Hills, and a female of the dry-season brood, from Atarum, Upper Tenasserim, 
taken by Capt. C. T. Bingham in March, is in Mr. W. Rothschild’s collection. 
Habits and Food-plant op Larva.— “ The larva of Viraja was discovered by Mr. 
T. R. Bell, in the Kanara District of Bombay. It feeds on the Blackwood tree, 
Dalbergia latifolia , and also on D. racemosa , and has similar habits to that of P. 
Hordonia, cutting through a leaf-stalk in such a way that all the leaflets beyond the 
cut part hang over ; then it cuts off each leaflet of the pendant part, joins it to the 
stem with silk, and lives in the house of dead leaves thus formed, feeding on the 
dead leaves ” (Davidson and Aitken, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, 251, 351). 
Note.— This species, 8. Viraja , is probably mimicked by the females of 
Pantaporia Inara and of P. Selenophora. 
STABROBATES MIAH. 
Neptis Micth, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. Ind. Company, i. p. 164, pi. 4a, fig. 1, (1857) ; Proe. 
Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 4. de Niceville, Butt of India, etc., ii. p. 85 (1886). 
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