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have it also from Sikkim ; it is in the B. M. also from Thuudiani, Ramghat, Kaugra, 

 Bhagi, 9,000 feet, Rala, Jalaori and Bhutan. 



Zephyrus trilocha, Haunyngton, whose type he has kindly allowed us to examine, 

 is undoubtedly only a dry form of the female of this species, the anal spots of the 

 hind wing below are obsolete or very faintly indicated, and without the orange ring ; 

 but we have examples in our collection that are very similar. 



RURALIS BIRUPA. 



Plate 704, figs. 1, (J, la, J , lb, $ , Ic, d, larva and pupa. 



Dipsas lirupa, Moore, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, p. 51. 

 Thecia or Zephyrus Mrupa, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 130. 



Zephyrus hirupa, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 306 (1890). Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. 

 Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 384, pi. V, fig. 15a, 15b, larva, 15c, pupa. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside metallic green. Foreicing with the costal black band 

 narrow, outer marginal band moderately broad and even. Hindioing with the costal 

 and outer marginal bands a little broader, broadest on the costa, and fairly even 

 throughout, the immediate costal space pale ; tail black, tipped with white, slight 

 productions at the ends of veins 3 and 4, abdominal fold grey. Cilia of both wings 

 white, with a black base. Underside dark grey, markings greyish-brown. Forewiatj 

 with a thin bar closing the cell, with whitish edges ; a discal narrow band, its upper 

 part slightly outwardly curved, from the costa to vein 2, where its end inclines 

 slightly outwards, edged outwardly with white, a sub-marginal band from the costa to 

 the sub-median nervure, broadest at its lower end, narrowing upwards. Hindicing 

 with a thin bar edged with whitish at the end of the cell ; a linear mark below the 

 costa one-fourth from the base, also with whitish edges ; a thin discal band, slightly 

 irregular at its upper end, from the costa to vein 1, where it turns inwards with two 

 sharp angles and a straight line to the middle of the abdominal margin, edged 

 outwardly with white throughout ; a discal band of angulated lunules with white 

 lunular marks on each side ; a black spot at the anal angle capped with orange, 

 another in the first interspace ringed with the same colour, some bluish-grey suffusion 

 between them, a white terminal line and anteciliary brown line. Antennae black, ringed 

 with white ; club with an orange tip ; head and body black above, grey beneath. 



Female, somewhat pale brownish-black, with a purplish tint. Forewing with the 

 colour merging narrowly into dark black on the costa, and broadly on the apex and 

 outer margin, a white spot at the end of the cell, with another on its outer side in the 

 next lower interspace. JJindicing with an indistinct, blackish outer marginal border 

 narrower than it is in the forewing ; abdominal fold grey ; tail black, tipped with 



