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witli tliem ; these are followed by a bioad irregular dark fascia, and a submarginal row 

 of large rounded ocellated spots with blue and black centres and black margins, and situated 

 between the nervules, six on the forewing and five on the hindwing (the lower spot on the forewing 

 is usually bipupillated) ; two fuscous submarginal waved lines, which are preceded near the 

 costal margin of the forewing by an irregularly shaped whitish spot, and the inner one of 

 which is margined on each side with pale bluish ; beyond these the colour is somewhat dull 

 red, and the cilia is black, interspersed with greyish ; on anal angle of hindwing, which is reddish, 

 is a looped black spot. Body more or less concolourous with wings, legs fuscous, and the 

 underside of the /a//,;' and //<^/(S and tarsi obscure ochraceous. Female. Larger and much 

 paler in colouration than the male. Uppersiue with the olack marginal border of \.\\q foreiving 

 broken towards posterior angle, and on the hituhving not reaching the outer margin ; the basal 

 third of both wings also appears distinctly darker. Underside much paler than in the male, being 

 dull reddish ochraceous at base, and then shading into creamy white and pale ochraceous ; the 

 markings are similar to those of the other sex, but of paler and altogether different hue." 



" The species is very closely allied tothe Javan R. polynice, Cramer." {Distant, 1. c. ) In my 

 opinion these two species are very doubtfully distinct, no author has defined the differences 

 between them. 



R.Jiilva has been taken by Mr. Wood-Mason in Cachar from May to August, there are 

 specimens from Cherrapunji and the Naga Hills in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, Mr. J. L. 

 Sherwill took it in the Jorehat district, Assam, in October, Mr. H. M. Parish obtained a female 

 in November in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and Dr. Anderson in the Mergui archipelago in 

 the cold weather. There is a male taken by Captain C- T. Bingham in the Donat range in Upper 

 Tenasserim in December in Major Marshall's collection, which approaches the typical figure 

 oiR. polynice, Cramer (pi. cxcv, figs. D, E, tnate, from Sumatra), in having the ground-colour 

 of the upperside much darker than the other specimens I have seen, and the outer black border 

 broad at the apex of the forewing on the upperside, the underside also is much darker. A female, 

 taken by the same gentleman in October also in the Donat range, is also much darker than the 

 Chittagong female mentioned above. R. fulva does not appear to be a common species anywhere. 

 The figure shows the upper and undersides of a male specimen from Cherrapunji in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



543- RhinOPalpa VaSUki, Doherty, MS. 

 Habitat : Arakan, Rangoon, Tavoy. 

 Expanse : 3'2 to 37 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings deep vinous-brown, paler on the 

 outer margins, which bear two indistinct somewhat lunulated black lines ; a broad pale reddish- 

 ochreous discal band, its inner edge sharply defined and somewhat irregular, its outer edge 

 blurred and more even, directed somewhat inwardly above the third median nervule of the 

 forewing, becoming gradually narrower towards the anal angle of the hindwing which it 

 does not quite reach. Foiezving with two whitish spots just beyond the discal band divided 

 by the third median nervule, with two or three subapical ochreous spots, the one in the 

 subcostal interspace always much the largest, a pair of black lines across the middle of the 

 cell, and another pair at its end enclosing the disco-cellulars. Binihuing with a very small and 

 obscure black spot on the outer edge of the discal band in the first median interspace out- 

 wardly defined with ochreous. Underside, both 7uings grey, the basal area darker and 

 sharply defined, the discal band above whitish below, five or six small black dots placed 

 between the veins on a dark band just beyond the pale discal band, the two whitish spots on 

 the upperside of the forewing divided by the third median nervule also white below, not black 

 like all the rest, the marginal lines very obscure. Foir.oing with a prominent quadrate black 

 spot below the submedian nervure at the anal angle. Female exactly like the male, except 

 that the wings are a little broader. Cilia whitish, tipped with black at the end of the veins. 



Differs from R. sabina, Cramer (pi. cclxxxix, figs. A, B, female ; C, D, male, from Amboyna 

 and Java) in the ihaIc having two whitish jpots on the forewing on the upperside and underside 



