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LEPIDOPTERA INDIO A. 
to tlie ground” (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 843). A male of the wet-season 
form, with pure ochreous markings, labelled “ Siam,” is in Mr. H. G-rose-Smith’s 
collection. 
STABROBATES AN ANT A. 
Neptis Ananta, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. East Ind. Company,!, p. 166, pi. 4, a, fig. 3 (1857); id. Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 5 ; Anderson’s Zool. Res. Yunan Exp. p. 294 (1878). de Niceville, Butt, of 
India, etc., ii. p. 85 (1886). 
Wet-season brood (Plate 297, fig. 1, la, b, c, 8 1 $ ). 
Imago. —Male. ITpperside dark brownish-black ; markings deep yellowish- 
ochreous ; cilia slightly alternated with white. Foreiving with an elongated narrow 
discoidal streak extending along lower area of the cell and ending in a point some 
distance on the upper median veinlet, the streak being very slightly angled below at 
the middle median, and its upper edge indented above the angle; a subapical 
oblique-series of three spots, the upper slender and divided by the third subcostal 
veinlet, the second elongate and obliquely indented on its outer edge, the third 
being short, broad and conical; these are joined by a more or less slightly-defined 
pale slender streak to a larger discal inwardly-oblique rounded spot cut by the 
middle median veinlet, below which is a narrower spot cut by the submedian on the 
posterior margin ; beyond is a slender submarginal slightly-apparent pale brown 
line. Hindwing crossed by a slightly broader inner-discal band, and a narrower 
outer band, followed by a slightly-apparent pale brown submarginal line ; a similar 
line also slightly apparent between the discal bands ; on the costa towards the base 
is a broad glossy white patch, the base of subcostals also being lined with white. 
Underside. Ground-colour bright ochreous-red or chestnut-red. Foreiving with the 
discoidal streak and discal spot pale yellowish-ochreous; the subapical spots, the 
spot on posterior margin, and two submarginal broken lines, and the end of 
discoidal streak bluish-grey; lower discal interspaces slightly fuliginous-black. 
Hindwing with the inner-discal band pale bluish greyish-white ,* the outer-discal 
band, submarginal line, medial-discal sinuous line, and a broad basal costal band 
bluish-grey; the veins also lined with bluish-grey. Body and palpi above black ; 
body and palpi beneath, forelegs, middle and hind femora bluish-grey; middle and 
hind tibiae and tarsi pale ochreous ; antennae black. 
Female. Upperside. Ground-colour paler fuliginous-black; markings as in 
male, but somewhat broader and paler. Underside also somewhat paler ; markings 
as in male. 
Expanse, 8' 2^ to 2 x - 0 , ?2 1 - p to 2 x - p inches. 
