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inwards ; a sub-marginal series of similar lunular marks, the lower portion of the series 

 rather near the lower portion of the cliscal series ; both wings with dark grey terminal 

 line with indications of a sub-terminal series of pale grey lunular marks. Anteuna3 

 black, ringed with white, the club with an orange tip ; head and body above and 

 below concolorous with the wings. 



Expanse of wings, ^1^ inches. 



Female unknown. 



Habitat. — Khasia Hills. 



Distribution. — The type from the Khasia Hills is in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta ; we have, however, a perfectly fresh example from the same locality, which 

 we describe and figure. 



RURALIS ATAXUS. 

 Plate 703, figs. 1, <J , la, ? , lb, $ . 



Bipsas ataxus, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 480, pi. 74, fig. 7, $ (18-52). 



Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 31 (1857). Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 65, 



pi. 26, fig. 6, $ (1863). 

 Thecla ataxus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 247. 

 Zejphyrus ataxus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 303 (1890). Fixsen, Rom. Sur Lep. iii. p. 269 



(1887). Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 374, pi. 27, fig. 5, (J , 6, ? (1893). Mackinnon 



and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 384. 

 Dipsas Jcatura, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 65, pi. 26, figs. 1, 2, J (1865). Fixsen, Rom. Sur Lep. 



iii. p. 268 (1887). 

 Zepltyrus Jcatura, de Niceville, I.e. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside metallic green. Foreiving with a broad black apical 

 band which runs down the outer margin less broadly but evenly. Hindwivg with the 

 costal space and abdominal fold pale brown, the outer margin with a broad Itlack 

 band containing a fine white line towards the anal angle ; tail black, tipped with 

 white. Cilia of both wings white, dusky towards the anal angle of the hindwing, the 

 hinder margin of the forewing with long fuscous cilia. Underside sdvery white, 

 irrorated in parts with ochreous-grey scales. Forewing with a brown line closing the 

 cell, a cliscal brown line from the costa to vein 4, bent outwards at its middle, some- 

 times obsolete, an irrorated sub-marginal fuscous spot in each of the interspaces 1 and 2, 

 in continuation of a sub-marginal fuscous line, the lower spot sometimes obsolete. 

 Hindiving with a broad fuscous line closing the cell, sometimes continued upwards to 

 the costa, and also sometimes continued a little hindwards, a line parallel to it nearer 

 the base of the wing, connected at its lower end to the outer line, a spot below it, 

 with another spot again below the last, and a small round spot on the abdominal 

 margin ; the inner line and spots often obliterated by the irrorations towards the base 

 of the wing ; a double sub-marginal series of lunular marks, a sub-marginal Uaek 

 spot in the first interspace, ringed with orange, a black spot in the anal lobe capped 

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