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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Distribution.— We possess specimens from Sikkim, from Bliotan, taken by Mr., 
Gr. C. Dudgeon, and from Cherra Punji and Khasia Hills. A specimen from the 
Garro Hills is in Mr. W. Rothschild’s collection. Colonel C. Swinhoe has received 
numerous examples from the Khasia Hills. Mr. de Niceville records it, as Vihasi, 
as c< a common species in Sikkim, occurring at low elevations almost throughout the 
year” (Sikkim Gazetteer, 1894, 137). 
Mr. W. Doherty records Vihasi as “ rare in the Sarju Yalley at Kapkot, Kumaon, 
at 4000 feet elevation ” (J. A. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 125). This latter locality may 
probably refer to the present species. 
BIMBISARA HARITA (Plate 291, fig. 2, 2a, b, c, $ ). 
Neptis Harita , Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 571, pi. 66, fig. 8, $ . de Niceville, Butt, of India, 
etc., ii. p. 92 (1886). 
Neptis Vihasi, Distant, Rfiop. Malayana, p. 152, pi. 16, fig. 13, ? (1883)— nee Horsf. 
Neptis Vihasi, var. Harita , Distant, id. p. 444, pi. 43, fig. 8, <Y 
Imago. —Male and female. Upperside olivescent fuliginous-brown, with blacker 
intervening patches between the markings. Forewing with rather indistinct paler 
olivescent-brown narrow discoidal streak and dentate discocellular mark, two trans¬ 
verse discal series of obscure narrow pale black-bordered zigzag lunules, the upper 
and lower pair in each series being broadest, and the one between the middle and 
lower median of the inner series is broader and dentate in the female ; and two 
submarginal similar slender lunular lines, these markings being somewhat more 
distinct in the female. Mindwing with a paler narrow inner-discal transverse band 
with dark outer border, beyond which is a blackish medial-discal macular fascia, 
and then a submarginal row of pale-bordered blackish dentate-lunules, these 
markings being most distinct in the female. Underside brighter olive-brown; 
markings as above ; the cell-streak, discal, and outer lines being violet-white and 
most prominent in the female. 
Expanse, 2 to 2^ inches. 
Habitat. —E. Bengal; Assam; Oachar; Khasia Hills; Burma; Tenasserim ; 
Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra; Borneo. 
Distribution.— We possess the male and female type specimens from “Eastern 
Bengal.” Mr. de Niceville records “a single specimen in the Indian Museum, 
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Calcutta, taken in the Dunseri Yalley, Upper Assam, and a male from Cachar, 
taken in July by Mr. J. Wood-Mason” (Butt. Ind. 92) r A female from Tezpore, 
Assam, is in Mr. R. H. F. Rippon’s collection. Colonel C. Swinhoe possesses 
specimens from the Khasias. There are also Assam and Khasia examples in Mr. W. 
