BEUDORIXINJE. Gl 



I do not know any species to which M. refulgens is closely allied, or with which it 

 can be compared. The purple gloss of the upperside is visible in all lights, which is 

 quite an unusual feature in the males of a species of this genus. I am still unable to 

 identify " Deudorix " rectivitta, Moore, from North Cachar, but my species obviously 

 differs from it by the character of the anal and sub-anal spots of the hindwing on the 

 underside. 



Described from a single example kindly given to me by the Eev. Walter A. 

 Hamilton, by whose native collectors it was obtained in the Khasia Hills, 

 (de Niceville.) 



Female. Upperside paler than the male, the colour shading darker towards the 

 costa and outer margin on the forewing, forming diffuse marginal borders. Underside 

 with the coloration and markings similar to those of the male, but the discal bands are 

 a little broader, and in the forewing there are indications of a sub-marginal series of 

 whitish lunular marks similar to those of the hindwing in both sexes. Antenna3 black, 

 ringed with white ; club with a dull red tip ; frons white ; head and body above and 

 below concolorous with the wings. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1^ to lyg- inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



We have received several examples of both sexes from the Khasia and Jaintia 

 Hills ; the type male came from the Khasia Hills, and is in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta ; de Niceville's description is so good, there can be no mistake about the 

 identification ; we describe the female from an example received with some males from 

 our 'native collector ; our figures are from a male from the Jaintia Hills and female 

 from the Khasia Hills. 



RAPALA DELIOCHUS. 



Plate 718, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, $. 



Deudorix deliochus, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 352; id. 111. Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 31, 



pi. 5a, figs. 68, 69, i (1878). 

 Bapala deliochus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 457 (1890) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, 



p. 210, pi. E, fig. 6, ? . H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 621. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing dark brown ; the inner margin (which is 

 slightly curved outwards where ornamented by a tuft of hair) from its base to its 

 middle, and bounded above by the median nervule, lilac-blue ; the lobe, which is very 

 prominent, orange and black. Underside, both wings ferruginous, crossed by four 

 distinct linear bands of white, the fourth band (in the forewing) near the apex, short ; 

 both crossed by two sub-marginal bands of lunular white spots. Hindwing with a 

 black caudal spot, bordered with orange, and an anal black spot, irrorated with silver- 

 blue. (Hewitson.) 



