NYMPHALIN.'JE. (Group LIMJENITINA.) 
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Mil* 
(P. Z. S. 1891, 274). Ad. example of the male, very pale in colour (probably dry- 
season form), taken by Mr. Doherty in Upper Burma, has been figured and described 
as N. asterastilis, by Mons. Oberthur. We possess both sexes from tlie late General 
G. Ramsay’s Nepal collection. Colonel C. Swinhoe has received several of both sexes 
from Shillong and the Khasia Hills. 
STABROBATES NARAYANA (Plate 295, fig. 1, la, J). 
Neptis Narayana, Moore, Proe. Zool. Soe. 1858, p. 6, pi. 49, fig. 3, d* de Nieeville, Butt, of India, 
etc., ii. p. 87 (1886). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside olivescent fuliginous-black, with blacker intervening 
bordering patches between the veins ; markings white or sullied ocbreous-wbite ; 
cilia alternated witli white. Forewing with a white elongated discoidal streak 
extending along lower area of the cell to a short distance above and base of the 
upper median veinlet, the streak widely indented opposite the discocellulars; three 
very small slender streaks divided by the subcostals, beyond which are three 
subapical outwardly-oblique spots, the upper short and vein-divided, the second 
elongated, the third short and conically-triangular, below these are two discal larger 
conjoined spots placed above and below the middle median, the upper one being 
narrow, the lower somewhat broadly-quadrate ; beneath these are two smaller 
inwardly-oblique conjoined spots; beyond is a transverse submarginal lunular line, 
the upper part of which is pale fuliginous, the lower whitish. Hindwing crossed by 
a broad sullied-white inner-discal band, and a narrower outer-discal lunular band, 
followed by a very indistinctly-defined pale submarginal lunular line. Underside 
dull brownish-red; the white markings as above, but less prominent, and violaceous- 
white. Forewing also with the costal base and upper cell area pale yellowish- 
ochreous, the lower discal interspaces fuliginous; outwardly bordering the subapical 
spots are violaceous-white lunules; the submarginal lunular line also partly 
violaceous-white. Hindwing also with the veins basally, and basal interspaces 
below the costal and subcostal, a medial discal zigzag line, and two submarginal 
slender lines violaceous-white. 
Female. Upperside brighter olivescent-black; markings pale ochreous-wkite. 
Underside as in the male. Body and palpi above fuliginous-black ; palpi and thorax 
beneath, and forelegs white; middle and hind legs and abdomen beneath pale 
ochreous. 
Expanse, d 2 X A 0 to 2^ 0 , ? 2^ inches. 
Habitat. —Western Himalayas. 
Distribution. —The type specimen, and a male and female, from Naini Tal, 
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