BUTTERFLIES FROM S. E. TIBET AND MISRMI HILLS. 609 



196. Aphn^us syama. 



Amblypodia syama, Horsfielcl, Cat. Lep. E. I, C, p, 107 (1829). 



AphncBus syama. Leech, Butt. China, Japan and Corea, p. 410 (1893); 



Svvinhoe, Lep. Ind, ix, p. 167 (1911). 



Three male specimens and a female, all rather abraded. 



Rima (6,000 ft.), July 5 ; Kahao (5,300 ft.), July 13. 



197. Hypolycena erylus. 



Polyommatus erylus, Godt., Enc. Meth. ix, p. 633 (1823). 



Hypolyccena erylus, Moore, Lep. Ind. ix, p. 93, pi. 723, figs. l-\b. (1911). 



Two male specimens. 



Digaru River (1,200 ft.), August 3, (1,100 ft.), August 6. 



198. SxKYMON iENOME. 



Thecla csnome, Leech. Butt. China, Japan and Corea, p. 366, pi. xxix, 

 figs. 6 c?,9 $ (1893). ■ 

 Seven specimens. 

 Lompo (8,000 ft.), June 15. 



199. ZiNASPA TODARA NEGLECTA, var. nov. 



Zinaspa ditorda, de Niceville ; Leech, Butt. China, Japan and Corea, 

 p. 346 (1893). 

 • Zinaspa todara, Moore, Lep. Ind. ix, p. 14, pi. 720, figs. 2-25 (1911). 



In this form the purple colour of the male is of darker and duller tint 

 than in either typical todara or distorta. In the female the purple does 

 not extend beyond the basal half of the forewings, whereas in todara this 

 colour spreads over the basal two-thirds, and in distorta the purplish or 

 bluish colour extends across quite three-fourths of the forewings. 



Expanse 36 millim. 



Two male specimens and one female. 



Leng Chu (4,500 ft.). May 7. 



There were nine specimens from Western China in the Leech collection, 

 now in the British Museum. These were referred to distorta but they are 

 identical with the form here described as neylecta. 



200. Rapala catena, sp. n. 



S . Purple inclining to bluish on the discal area of each wing, a small 

 orange mark surmounted by a cluster of bluish scales in tornal lobe ot 

 hindwings. Underside grey ; each wing with two white lines at the outei 

 extremity of cell, and two wavy white lines forming chain-like postmedial 

 bands, the band on hindwings bent inwards at middle and angled before 

 dorsum. 



Expanse 40 millim. 



One male specimen captured at Rima (5,500 ft.), July 7th, 1911. 



Allied to R. repercussa, Leech, from Western China. 



201. Rapala schistacea. 



Deudorix schistacea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1879, p. 140. 

 Rapala schistacea, Moore, Lep. Ind. ix, p. 58, pi. 718, figs. 2-2i. (1911). 

 One male specimen. 

 Kahao (5,300 ft.), July. 



202. Rapala nissa. 



Thecla nissa, Kollar, Hiigel's Kashmir^ i, pt. 2, p. 42, pi. iv, figs. 3, 4 (1848 

 Rapala subpurpurea, Leech, Entom. xxiii. p. 42 (1890). 



