158 Colonel C. Swinhoe on new 
Family Nymphalidae. 
Dracenura arfakalis, nov. 
S$ @. Frons, head, and thorax dark brown: fore wing 
dark copper-brown, shining, uniform in colour ; an indistinct 
black spot in the cell and another at the end, no other 
markings: hind wing pure white, with an all-round marginal 
band of the colour of the fore wing, well defined, thickest at 
the apex, slightly suffused on its inner margin; cilia of both 
wings white. Antennz grey, with pure white points on the 
joints; abdomen with the basal half white, outer half 
blackish ; anal tuft white. Underside: wings as above, fore 
wing paler in colour ; palpi brown; face, pectus, body, and 
legs white. 
Expanse of wings, ¢ 9, 1;%5 inch. 
_ Hab. Arfak Mountains, North New Guinea, 4000’, 6000! 
(Pratt). 
Family Lycenida. 
Rapala francesca. 
Rapala francesca, Swinhoe, Lep. Ind. ix. p. 52, pl. 716. figs. 4,4 a, d 
(1911), 
9. Upperside paler purplish black than in the male and 
without the gloss; underside bright ochreous yellow ; all the 
markings above and below (except, of course, the sexual 
patch) exactly as in the male. 
Expanse of wings, 2, 145-1; inch. 
ffab. Khasia Hills. 
Two examples received with two males from my native 
collector in Cherra Punji. 
Loxura atymnus luzonica, nov. 
3. Upperside much as in L. arcuata, Moore, from Ceylon, 
but the outer marginal black band of the fore wing is more 
attenuated towards the hinder angle; the outer marginal 
brown line of the hind wing is a mere thread and the cilia are 
pale yellowish. Underside differently coloured to any of the 
other forms of this group, being of a very clear and pure and 
uniform dark orange-ochreous tint, the markings almost 
obliterated, the two outer transverse lines only slightly 
visible on either wing and straighter and nearer to each other 
than usual. 
?. Paler than in the male, the outer marginal black band 
broader, the outer margin of the hind wing rather broadly 
