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? Rapala refulgens, De N. 



Six males which I doubtfully identify as belonging to this species were 

 taken at Sebong, Manipur, in April. They agree fairly well with De 

 ISJiceville's description but the colour of the upperside is more purple than in 

 L. eryx with which De Niceville compares his refulgens. 



It does not appear to be a true Rapala as the secondary sexual patch on 

 hindwing fills the base of interspace 6 as in Virachola and Sinthusa but does 

 not extend into the cell as in those genera. The underside resembles a 

 Sinthusa more than a Rapala. 



Virachola rosacea, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside : both wings dull purple glossed with pink. Hindwing : 

 costal area pinky brown ; sexual patch of moditied scales pinky brown ; 

 anal lobe yellow brown sprinkled with a few black scales. Underside :rich 

 dark vinoiTS bviff, all the markings very obscure. Forewing : discocellulars 

 faintly marked with darker colour ; a faint post-discal macular band of 

 darker colour, parallel to the margin, visible in interspaces 1-3. Hindwing : 

 discocellulars marked by two white lines, the space between them filled with 

 darker colour. A post-discal macular band of darker colour edged on both 

 sides with white and outwardly produced in space 5 and recurved along the 

 dorsum ; anal lobe black ; a small black spot in interspaces 1 and 2 placed 

 on an orange ground, the spot in interspace 1 irrorated with a few metallic 

 blue scales ; and lastly a white streak above the anal lobe. Tail black tipped 

 with white. Cilia on termen concolorous with the ground colour below, 

 tipped with white below anal spots of hmdwing and becoming pure white 

 along dorsum. 



Antennae : black ringed with white, apex of club red brown. 



Expanse : d 6 l-3"-l-44". 



On the upperside this species looks more like a Rapala than a Virachola 

 and has the termen of forewing rounded and not straight but on the 

 underside the macular band is in shape nearer to that of Virachola and the 

 shape of the sexual patch on hindwing is similar. 



Virachola isogrates, Fab. 



Males taken commonly at Imphal, Manipur. 



Virachola perse, Hewitson, 



Appears to be rare. A couple of males taken at Imphal, Manipur, in 

 October and a female at Nichuguard, Naga Hills, in May. 



Virachola doherty, n. sp. 



A single specimen of a male taken at Kirbari, Naga Hills, at 5,000 — 6,000 

 feet in September appears to be new and quite unlike anything 1 know. 



Male. Upperside: both wings grey-blue, veins marked with fuscous. 

 Forewing : costal area as far as upper edge of cell and apex broadly fus- 

 cous, this colour continued decreasingiy along the termen ending almost in a 

 point at the tornus. Hindwing : costal area as far as vein 6 fuscous ; 

 abdominal margin and interspace 1 covered with grey hairs ; anal lobe small, 

 fuscous and sprinkled with a few paler scales ; a glandular patch of modified 

 scales filling the base of interspace 6 and extending on either side into the 

 cell and interspace 7. 



Underside : both wings pale grey suffused with white except on the dis- 

 cocellulars, discal and subterminal bands. Forewing : discocellulars marked 

 with grey bordered on both sides with white ; a narrow grey, slightly 



