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veins, and this colour runs down the centre of both tails, 

 replacing the blue sti-eaks in athamas ; on the margin between 

 the first tail and the anal angle the band is nearly pure white. 

 The underside is much as in athamas, except for the double 

 spot on the fore wings. 



Expanse of wings, c? 2-j6q, $ 3-3^^ inches. 



Waingapo. 



No doubt a local form of E. athamas^ Drurj. I have 

 received a good number of specimens, two of them being 

 females, from the same locality, and they do not differ in any 

 of these characters from each other. 



Fam. LycasnidaB. 

 Rapala rantaj sp. n. 



c? . Above as in Rapala recti'vitta, Moore, = ff. buxaria, 

 de Nic^v. The blue sheen on the fore wings runs below the 

 median vein nearly to the margin, and on the hind wings 

 from vein 2 to vein 6, but is not of so deep purple in colour 

 as in rectivitta ; the tail, anal lobe, and cilia are similar, the 

 anal lobe having a slight orange mark above the black spot 

 almost hidden by the grey hairs above it. On the undersi'ie 

 the coloration is paler than in rectivitta, with an ochreous 

 tint ; the discal lines are thin, well curved (outwardly), and 

 are outwardly edged with white, and the double lines at the 

 anal angle above the lobe are more widely separated and are 

 black with prominent white edgings ; the tail-spot is small 

 and the anal lobe spot large, pure black. The wings are 

 broader, with the outer margins more rounded than in recti- 

 vitta, and the glandular patch of scales on the hind wing 

 above is ochreous grey and very prominent. 



Expanse of wings 1| inch. 



Jaintia Hills. Several examples. 



Might be a varietal form of R. nissa, without the red patch 

 above, many male examples of nissa having no indication of 

 this patch ; but the sheen on the wings above is rich purple- 

 blue, not steel-blue, as is invariably the case in nissa, and the 

 thin outwardly curved transverse bands below are not repre- 

 sentative of any example of 7nssa that I have ever seen, and 

 I have one hundred and twenty-three with and without tlie 

 red patch in my collection. 



Rapala huxaria, de Nicdv., is undoubtedly the same as 

 R. rectivitta, Moore. I have Moore's type of the latter now 

 before me, also many examnles from tlie Khasia Hills and 

 one from Bhutan. The sheen above is identical, the transverse 

 bands below are identically the same, but are not always of 



