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white discal line formed of short lunules between the veins, that 

 portion below the first median nervule shifted inwards ; a double 

 submarginal series of short white lines, more diffused than the discal 

 line, placed between the veins, which give the appearance cf six 

 increasing spots of the ground-colour defined with white. Hind 

 wing with a discal white line as iu the fore wiug, but much more 

 distorted and irregular ; an obscure similar basal line, and a sub- 

 marginal very dentate one ; the area beyond the latter irrorated v.i 1\ 

 whitish, including an obscure rounded ferruginous spct ir, the tirsr, 

 median interspace ; a fine white anteciliary line obsolete anteriorly. 

 Cilia brownish ferruginous throughout. 



Allied to Rapala amisena, Hewitson, who describes and figures 

 the female', while Mr. Distant figures the opposite sex^ from 

 Singapore. Differs from the same sex of that species, jaJgiiv^; i'l ■' lUc 

 figure and description only, in having the purple area of the upper- 

 side of the fore wing of less extent and shurply defined (in R, 

 amisena it appears to be suffused over nearly the whole wing, with 

 no sharp edges), and on the underside of both wings in the markings 

 being fewer and white throughout, instc ad of dark fuscous, with no 

 trace of the dull light-blue irroratiou at the anal angle of the hind 

 wing, with a lunular black spot between the tails, described by 

 Hewitson as occurring in his Ambhipodia amisena. 



Mr. Otto Moller took two female specimens of R. distorta on 

 22nd March, in Sikkim, at about 1500 feet altitude. 



NiLASERA WIMBERLEYI, D. Sp. (Plate XL. fig. 4, $ .) 



Hub. South Andaman Isles. 



Expanse. 2 ^'^^ inch. 



Female. Upperside : both wings rich cerulean blue. Fore 

 wing with the costa as far as the subcostal neivnre, the apex, and 

 outer margin widely black. Hind iviug vi\.i\\ the ccstal cvA cur"r 

 margin less broadly black, that colour ascending a short distance 

 into the blue colour between the veins ; tail black, tipped with 

 white. Underside : both loings pale olivaceous. Fore wing with 

 a round spot at the base, an o\al one at the middle, and a quadrate 

 one at the end of the cell, with a small one between these two latter 

 placed on the subcostal nervure ; a spot at the base of the first 

 median interspace, and another quadrate one in the middle of the 

 submedian interspace ; a discal regular macular band composed of 

 six conjoined spots from the costa to the first median nervule, its 

 inner edge almost straight, its outer edge scalloped ; a submarginal 

 macular band very prominent about its middle : all these markings 

 fuscous, outwardly defined with sordid white ; a fine black ante- 

 ciliary line. Hind wing with the usual spots and bands, the chief 

 of which are two series of four round spots, each towards the base, 

 an elongated spot closing the cell, and a much broken discal macular 



1 Amhli/podia amisena, Hewitson, Cat. Lycieiiida; B. M. f). 13. n. 62, pi. vii. 

 figs. 74, id,, female (1802). 



^ Bapala amisena, Distant, Ebop. Malay, p. 277. n. 1, pi. xxiii. fig. 13, male 

 (1885). 



