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parts, the anterior portion is rounded with a short narrow anterior 

 projection, the posterior portion is elongated and reaches the inner 

 margin inwardly obliquely ; a broad nearly even submarginal line 

 slightly disconnected where it is crossed by the third median nervule ; 

 a greatly disconnected series of indistinct marginal spots. Hindwing 

 with a recurved discal band from the costa to the abdominal margin ; 

 the submarginal band very broad, broader than the discal band, 

 interiorly attenuated and not quite reaching the costa, posteriorly 

 ending on the abdominal margin; a narrow rather indistinct marginal 

 line. Underside, forewing with the ground-colour and markings 

 much paler than on the upperside, some of the latter almost white in 

 the middle ; a narrow subcostal yellow streak ; the discoidal band as 

 above ; the discal band everywhere entirely crossed by the black veins ; 

 between this and the submarginal band there is a narrow yellow line 

 which becomes obsolete at about the middle of the wing ; the marginal 

 lines as above. Hindwing with the ground-colour even paler than in 

 the forewing, glossed throughout with pale shining violet ; the bands 

 as above but very pale, almost whitish, with an additional macular 

 pale band in the middle of the wing between the discal and submar- 

 ginal bands ; in the discoidal cell towards its base are two prominent 

 round dark dots, the inner one almost touching the subcostal nervure, 

 the outer one quite touching the second subcostal nervule ; anterior to 

 the last-named dot is an irregular dark bar which commences on the 

 second subcostal nervule and ends on the costal nervure. 



Very near to N. (Rahinda) par aha, Butler, described from Malacca, 

 in my collection from Jorehat in Assam, Bassein in Arracan, 

 Bhamo in Upper Burma, K^vala Lumpur (Selangore) and Perak in 

 the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo ; recorded also from 

 Sylhet, the Dafla Hills, Chittagong, Mergui, Nias Island, and Palawan 

 in the Philippine Isles, from which it may instantly be distin- 

 guished on the upperside of the forewing in the two (in N. paraha 

 there are often three) marginal lines being parallel to the outer 

 margin instead of being " deeply bisinuate so as to form two wide 

 arches ;" all the markings are also of a deeper tawny hue on both 

 surfaces ; the hindwing on the underside is prominently glossed with 

 pale violet instead of being dull " ochre- yellow/' and the basal 

 markings or liturse differ in shape and position. Dr. 0. Staudinger, in 



