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I have examined my specimen carefully. It is undoubtedly a male and 

 has no secondary sexual characters, so that if my identification is correct 

 hypargyria should be placed under Deudorix. 



" ? " DettdoisIx. sp. ?. 



A single female taken near Suroi, Manipur, at about 4,000 — rt,000 feet in 



July may be new. It is very close to D. epijarbas 2 hut differs as follows : — 



Upperdde : darker with a purple gloss. Forewing : a rather indistinct 



reddish-brown patch in interspaces 2, 3 and 4 just entering 1. 



Underside : Forewing : discocellular and discal bands very narrow. 



Hindwing : bands very narrow as on foremng ; portion of discal band 



in interspace 7 in line with portions in interspaces 4, 5 and 6 and not shifted 



inwards ; discocellular bands quite clear of discal band. 



Rapala tara, De N. 



Appears to be rare. Only a single male was obtained on the Irang 

 River, Western Manipur Hills, in March. 



Rapala sphinxnicevillei, Swinhoe. 



Three males taken at Nichuguard, Naga Hills, in October, March and 

 April. 



Rapala scintilla, De N. 



Common at Imphal, Manipur. 



Rapala buxaeia, De N. 



I erroneously recorded in the J., B. N. H. S., Vol. XXI, p. 602, under the 

 above name one of the forms of the variable S. nissa. I have however since 

 taken numerous males and a female of true buxaria at Phesima, near Kohima, 

 Naga Hills, during July and a few males below Kabru, Manipur, in May and 

 June. Two females were also taken at the foot of the Naga Hills in 

 October and November. The males of ±t. buxaria appear to fly somewhat 

 higher than R. nissa and all my specimens were obtained at about 7,000 feet. 



Rapala kosacea, De N. 



Seven males of a form taken on the Barak River, Western Manipur Hills, 

 in March which agree very well with De Niceville's description and figure 

 except that the anal spots on hindwing, underside, are not marked with red 

 but are golden or golden brown. They can be at once distinguished from 

 R. nissa by the much paler colour of the sexual patch on upper hindwing 

 and on the underside by the anal spots not having any trace of black. The 

 sexual patch of modified scales on hindwing extends slightly along veins 

 6 and 7 and just into the base of interspace 6 which it does not do in 

 R. nissa. Four of the specimens are strongly suffused with rosy pink on the 

 underside and three are yellowish with scarcely any pink suffusion. 



Rapala petosieis, Hewitson.. 



Fairly common in Manipur at low elevations. A few specimens were also 

 taken at Nichuguard, Naga Hills. 



Rapala suffctsa, Moore. 



Common in Manipur. Many specimens taken at Sebong and on the 

 Irang River, Western Manipur Hills. 



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