N TMPH A LINAE. (Group LIMJENI TINA ,) 
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Eat. Zeit. 1889, p. 64. Habitat. Palawan .—Palanda Bella (Neptis Bella Stan- 
dinger, id. p. 61. Habitat. Palawan .—*Palanda Hschscfioltzia (Neptis Eschscholtzia, 
Semper, Reisen Philip. Lep. p. 149 (1889). Habitat. Luzon. 
Genus STABROBATES. 
Stabrobates, Moore, Lep. Iuclica, iii. p. 146 (1898). 
Neptis (part), Auctorum. 
Neptis (sect. 6), Felder, Neues Lep. p. 31 (1861). 
Imago. —Male. Forewing elongated, subtriangular; apex rounded, exterior 
margin oblique, concave in the middle, almost even, posterior angle rounded, 
posterior margin much recurved ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-third before 
end of the cell, second at one-ninth before the end; discocellulars outwardly 
oblique, both very short; cell open ; middle and lower median very wide apart, 
lower median being emitted nearly opposite the first subcostal branch ; submedian 
vein much recurved; posterior margin of the underside below the submedian vein 
glossy brownish-grey. Hindwing short, conically-triaugular; anterior margin 
obliquely-convex beyond the middle, apex rounded, exterior margin obliquely 
convex and scalloped, anal angle obtuse; costal border glossy-grey, and a medially 
disposed unglossed patch from costal vein to lower subcostal; precostal vein rather 
long, bent outward before its middle; costal vein ending at one-fourth before the 
apex; radial and subcostal branch at equal distances from the costal vein. Body 
slender;* palpi long, slender, densely clothed with wide spreading fine long hairs ; 
antennal club slender ; eyes naked. Type. —S. Radha. 
STABROBATES RADHA (Plate 294, fig. 1, la, b, c, $ $). 
Neptis Radha, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mns. E. I. Company, i. p. 166, pi. 4a, fig. 4, <$ (1857); id. Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 6. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 84 (1886). 
Neptis Asterastilis, Oberthur, Etudes Entom. xv. p. 10, pi. 1, fig. 5, d (1891). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside brownish-black, with blacker intervening bordering 
spaces between the veins ; markings yellowish-ochreous; cilia slightly alternated 
with white. Forewing with a prominent yellowish-ochreous elongated discoidal 
streak extending along lower half of the cell area to some distance above and below 
base of the upper median veinlet, the streak being slightly indented opposite the 
discocellulars ; a very slender short streak divided by the second subcostal branch 
* In Stabrobates Viraja, the male of the dry-season form possesses a conspicuous tuft of laxly exserted 
black (1 glandular) scales of varied shapes, which is disposed laterally along the middle segments of the 
abdomen beneath. Not observable in specimens of wet-season form. 
