158 Colonel C. Swinlioe oi neio 



Family Nymphalidse. 

 Draccenura arfahalis, no v. 



c? ? . Frons, lieatl, and thorax dark brown : fore wing 

 daik 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 ot the fore wing, well defined, thickest at 

 the apex, slightly suffused on its inner margin ; cilia of both 

 wings white. Antennae 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, ^ ? j ly^y inch. 



Hah. Arfak Mountains, North New Guinea, iOOCy, 6000' 

 {Pratt). 



Family Lycsenidae. 



Bapala francesca. 



Bapala francesca, SwiuLoe, Lep. Ind. ix. p. 52, pi. 716. figs. 4, 4 a, c? 

 (1911). 



? . 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, ? , ly%-l/^ inch. 



Hab. Khasia Hills. 



Two examples received with two males from my native 

 collector in Cherra Punji. 



Loxura atymnus luzonica, nov. 



^ . Upperside much as in L. arcuaia, 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 

 jiale 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 



