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blackish borders on the forewing. Underside with the ground colour paler, more 

 ochreous, markings similar, but more prominent, with indications of a pale brown sub- 

 marginal band on both wings. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? ly*o to ly% inches. 



Habitat. — Naini Tal, Sylhet, Assam. 



Distribution. — Eecorded by de Niceville from Naini Tal, taken by Colonel Lang 

 5,000 feet elevation, and from Nalaina, near Naini Tal, 4,200 feet. The types came 

 from Sylhet, taken by the Rev. W. A. Hamilton, and are in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta ; we have received many examples of both sexes from the Khasia Hills from 

 the Rev. W. A. Hamilton and from our native collector ; our description and figures 

 are from Khasia Hill specimens. 



RAPALA FRANCESCA, nov. 

 Plate 716, figs. 4, (J, 4a, (J . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside very dark purplish-black with a slight gloss. Forewing 

 with the colour shading into pure black broadly towards the costa and outer margin ; a 

 prominent velvety sexual patch of four dull ochreous-grey streaks, a short one filling 

 up the base of the second median interspace, a longer streak in the first median inter- 

 space, a narrow one, nearly as long, immediately below vein 2, and the fourth just 

 inside the cell, only divided from the others by the outer end of the median vein, the 

 last usually not so prominent as the others ; all forming a somewhat oval patch. 

 Hindwing with the costal space and abdominal fold blackish, anal lobe black ; tail 

 black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings black, with a white band in its middle 

 on the anal lobe and from thence to vein 3. Underside dark chocolate-brown, with a 

 slight ochreous tint, markings rufoua-brown. Forewing with the hinder marginal area 

 pale, a round polished patch in its middle, two lines at the end of the cell, with a 

 whitish thread between them, a thin discal band, with whitish outer edge, slightly 

 outwardly curved, from near the costa to near the sub-median vein, faint indications of 

 a series of sub-marginal lunular marks. Hindicing with similar discoidal and discal 

 lines ; the latter composed of more or less disconnected, short linear marks, prominently 

 outwardly edged with white, slightly outwardly curved from the costa to vein 2, where 

 it curves inwards in a bluntly angular form to the abdominal margin, one-fourth above 

 the anal angle where it has a parallel short white streak above it, and another below it, 

 the second and fifth spots of the series shifted slightly inwards ; anal lobe black, a 

 large black spot in the first interspace, the space between irrorated with pale blue and 

 black irrorations ; a white anteciliary line from the anal lobe to vein 4. Cilia of both 

 wings black, with a white middle band from the anal lobe to vein 3. Antennae black, 

 ringed with white, the club tipped with red ; frons black, with a white middle line ; 



