LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
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Sub-family NYMPHALIN-ZE ( continued ). 
Genus BIMBISARA. 
Bimbisara , Moore, Lep. Indica, iii. p. 146 (1898). 
Neptis (pait), Auctorum. 
Nejptis (sect. 2, part), Felder, Neues Lep. p. 30 (1861). 
Imago. —Wings comparatively more elongated and narrower than in the species 
of typical Neptis (Aceris, etc.). Forewing elongated, subtriangular; costa slightly 
arched from the base, exterior margin slightly oblique and scalloped, posterior 
margin strongly recurved; first subcostal branch emitted at one-third before end of 
the cell, second at one-ninth before the end ; diseocellulars extremely short, both 
outwardly-oblique ; cell open; lower median emitted at half-way before the opposite 
diseocellulars. Hindwing elongate, triangular ; anterior margin very convex and 
oblique apically, exterior margin very obliquely convex, scalloped; with a broad 
glossy-white costal band and a medially-disposed unglossed brownish-grey patch 
extending from costal vein to below base of subcostals; costal vein ending at about 
one-fourth before the apex; precostal vein short, bent outward near end; subcostal 
branch and radial at a lengthened but equal distance from the costal vein ; cell area 
broad, open. Body moderately stout; palpi slender, laxly hairy; antennas with a 
lengthened slender club ; eyes naked. 
Type. B. Sankara [ Amba ]. 
BIMBISARA CARTICA. 
Neptis Cartica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 562, £ ? . de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. 
p. 89 (1886)— Dry-season. 
Neptis Carticoides , Moore, Tran?. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 309. de Niceville, l.c. p. 90 (1886)— Wet- 
season . 
Dry-season brood (Plate 287, fig. 1, la, b, $ ). 
Imago. —Male and female. Upperside dark fuliginous-black, with blacker 
vol. iv. January 2nd, 1899. B 
