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not quite so dark, no spots on the forewing ; the basal half of the forewing and the 

 basal two- thirds of the hiudwing with -blue suffusion, glistening in certain lights, the 

 cilia and the underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^ to 2, ? 2 to 2^% inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma. 



Distribution. — The types came from Sikkim ; we have both sexes from Sikkim, the 

 Khasia Hills and Rangoon ; Watson records it from the Chin Hills, and Elwes from 

 the Naga Hills. 



BURARA ETELKA. 



Plate 749, figs. 2, ^, 2a, 9,2b, <J . 



Ismene etelka, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iv. Ismene, tigs. 14, 15 (1867). Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, 

 p. 126 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 437. de Niceville and Martin, Journ. A.s. 

 Soo. Bengal, 1895, p. 552. Elwes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 293. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, 

 p. 60. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brown, with a slight purplish gloss. Forewing with 

 the interno-median and lower part of the first median interspaces paler than the rest 

 of the wing, a dull orange-red, thin, sub-costal streak. Cilia grey. Hindwing with 

 costal space pale, some brown hairs at the base which in certain lights have a dull 

 purplish tint ; abdominal fold paler than the rest of the wing. Cilia orange-red. 

 Underside. Forewing brown, with a purple tint, a dull orange-red streak in the cell 

 from the base and two above it, and similar streaks in all the interspaces outside the 

 cell, the lower part of the wing to the middle of the first median interspace pale, nearly 

 white, outer marginal line dark brown. Hindwing with rather more than the upper 

 half coloured like the forewing, containing a black basal spot on an orange-red small 

 patch, some inconspicuous streaks of that colour in the interspaces, two short streaks 

 outside the cell, two more below them, a little outwards, and the abdominal third of 

 the wing with the streaks so thick as to make that portion of the wing nearly all 

 orange-red, marginal line dark brown. Cilia of both wings as above. Antennae black, 

 orange-red beneath ; palpi orange, last joint black, head with orange-red hairs, thorax 

 and abdohaen concolorous with the wings, the former with dull blue hairs, the latter 

 with inconspicuous brown and grey bands ; body below and legs orange-red, abdomen 

 with black lateral spots. 



Female like the male above and below. 



Expanse of wings, $ 2^'%, $ Sy^g' inches. 



Habitat. — Singapore, Borneo, Burma. 



Distribution. — The type is said to have come from Salwatty ; we have it from 

 Sandakan in Borneo ; Elwes records it also from Singapore, and de Niceville from 

 Burma. 



