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which we could find room on our plates is the recently- 

 described Hirdapa rezia, Kirby, which belongs to a genus 

 differing much in shape from the more typical representatives 

 of Euplcea. 



The genus Hirdapa is thus characterised by Mr. Moore. 



" Male with short, very broad, fore-wing ; costa much arched ; 

 apex acute ; exterior margin long, slightly oblique, and curved; 

 hind margin deeply convex towards the angle ; cell very 

 broad ; upper discocellular slightly concave, lower outwardly 

 oblique ; lower median and sub-median very wide apart, sub- 

 median very recurved, with a very short broad sericeous brand. 

 Hind- wings very broadly oval, exterior margin oblique ; cell 

 broad, with a large pale ochreous glandular patch." 



HIRDAPA REZIA. 

 (Plate VI., Fig. 2.) ( ? .) 



Hirdapa rezia, Kirby, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), vol. xiii., 

 p. 166 (Feb., 1894). 



Exp., $ 2f, ? 3-^ inches. 



Male. Upper side. Anterior wings dark brown, shading into 

 blackish towards the costa, and inclining to rufous-brown 

 towards the base and margins ; from the base a large fawn- 

 coloured blotch spreads over the wing from above the median 

 nearly to the sub-median nervure and above and between the 

 two lower median nervules for half their length, the greater 

 part of this outer portion being filled up with whitish. Below 

 the lowest median nervule, and just before its middle, is an 

 oval bluish-grey spot. A row of six violet-blue sub-marginal 

 spots between the nervure to above the lowest median nervule, 

 the middle ones smallest, the two nearest the costa marked 

 with white. 



Posterior wings dark brown, shading into rufous-brown 



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