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lunular, one of the lunules at its middle, shifted slightly outwards, the series curving 

 at its lower end gradually in a sinuous form to the abdominal margin, where it is edged 

 on both sides with white ; anal lobe black with a short white line above it, a black 

 spot in the first interspace, the space between with some black and white scales, an 

 anteciliary white thread from the anal lobe to the tail. 



Female. Upperside paler than in the male and duller in colour, the ground colour 

 on the forewing darkeninsr on the costa and outer margin into diffuse blackish bands, 

 both wings with a black outer marginal line. Underside paler than in the male, of a 

 somewhat greenish-ochreous colour, markings similar. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1-^ to I-^-q inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Borneo. 



Distribution. — The type male from Sikkim is in coll. Knyvett. We have both 

 sexes from Sikkim and from the Khasia Hills ; H. H. Druce records it from Kina 

 Balu, 



RAPALA TARA. 

 Plate 716, figs. 3, <J , 3a, ? , 3b, <J . 



Itapala <ara, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 284, pi. 14, fig. 11, $ ; id. Butt, of 

 India, iii. p. 457, pi. 25, fig. 150, $, and pi. 29, fig. 241, V (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1893, p. 306. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purple-blue, duller in colour than in R. nicevillti. 

 Forewing with a black cilia with pale tips, a velvety-black sexual patch in the disc 

 extending slightly into the cell and crossed by the two lower nervules. Hindwing 

 with the abdominal fold brown, anal lobe with an ochreous spot, outwardly edged with 

 a short curved black line, a pale whitish cilia, with black tips, which is continued for a 

 short distance beyond the tail, which is black, tipped with white, the rest of the cilia 

 black with pale tips. Underside dull brownish-ochreous, with a greenish tint, markings 

 ochreous-brown. Forewing with indistinct double line at the end of the cell, a discal 

 thin band, or thick line, slightly outwardly curved, from near the costa to the sub- 

 median nervure, very slightly bent outwards above its middle. Hindwing with 

 similar discoidal mark, but more distinct, a discal outwardly curved thick line outwardly 

 edged with white, with a short inward curve in its middle, followed by a similarly short 

 outward curve, then angled and bent inwards to the abdominal margin, one- third from 

 the anal angle, with a few white marks between it and the anal lobe, which is black, a 

 small black spot in the first interspace, a few black and white scales between them, 

 an anteciliary white thread on the lower half of the wing. Antennae black, ringed 

 with white ; club with a red tip ; frons black ; eyes finely ringed with white ; head and 

 body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside dull purple-brown, and much paler and duller in colour. 

 Foreicing with the colour darkening the costa and the outer margin into difi"use 



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