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eyes ringed with white ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings, 

 abdomen below ochreous. 



Expanse of wings, $ ly^ inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



Described from three fresh examples received from our native collector from the 

 Khasia Hills ; the sex marks on the forewing are as in E. tara, de Niceville. 



RAPALA ROSACEA. 

 Plate 717, figs. 1, <J, la, (J. 



Mapala rosacea, de Niceville, Journ. As, Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. "285, pi. 14, fig. 12, ^; id. Butt, of 

 India, iii. p. 463, pi. 25, fig. 151, ^ (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 307. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing steel-blue, glistening in certain lights, 

 merging into the black marginal borders, broad on the costa, very broad at the apex, 

 narrowing down the outer margin from the end of the cell or a little outside it, to the 

 hinder angle where it is quite narrow. Hindwing with the costal space and abdominal 

 fold blackish, outer marginal line black, the inner space of the same kind of steel-blue 

 as on the forewing ; anal lobe black with a dull red spot in it, its cilia white, tipped 

 with black extending to vein 2, the rest of the cilia black, with pale tips ; tail black, 

 tipped with white. Underside bright vinous-red, markings dark reddish-brown. 

 Forewing with a double line with a pale line between them, at the end of the^cell ; a 

 discal line, very nearly straight, from near the costa to near the sub-median vein where 

 it inclines slightly outwards, and is outwardly edged with white, the hinder marginal 

 area paler than the rest of the wing and somewhat greyish. Hindwing with similar 

 discoidal and discal lines, the latter is nearly straight from the costa to vein 2, then 

 bends inwards in two blunt angles to the abdominal margin one-fourth above the anal 

 angle ; the anal lobe red with a black fringe ; a narrow red line up the abdominal 

 margin for a short distance ; a red mark above the end of the bend of the discal line 

 close to the abdominal margin, edged on its upper side with a black and a white line, a 

 dull red spot in the first interspace (sometimes obsolete), with some grey scaling 

 between it and the anal lobe, terminal line finely brown with an inner white thread. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white, club with a red tip ; frons ochreous-white with an 

 ochreous-red middle stripe ; palpi ochreous-red, last joint black ; head and body above 

 and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female, like the male above and below, but somewhat paler. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 1% to 1^% inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam. 



Distribution. — The types from Sikkim are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; we 



