1888.] L. de Niceville — New Butterflies from the Indian Begion. 281 



margins pale fuscous. Underside, both icings deep glossy purplish-brown. 

 Forewing with a discal macular irregular fascia, and with a double 

 series of indistinct marginal lunules ; inner margin pale. Hindwing 

 with a very irregular discal macular fascia, outwardly slightly defined 

 with whitish ; marginal lunules much as in the forewing, some indistinct 

 plumbeous irrorations towards the anal angle. 



Nearest to " Poritia " phari/ge, Hewitson, from Perak and Borneo, 

 from which it may at once be distinguished by the absence of the three 

 subapicai and six marginal blue spots and the broad streak in the interno- 

 median area on the upperside of the forewing, and the much greater 

 extent of blue coloration on the upperside of the hindwing ; the mark- 

 ings of the underside also are very different. 



Described from a single specimen in the collection of Captain C. T. 

 Bingham, who captured it in December, 1887. 



10. Aphnj:us rukma, n. sp., PI. XIV, Fig. 6, d. 



Habitat : Sikkim. 



Expanse : d", 1'3 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, forewing black, the base and lower 

 discal area slightly iridescent deep blue of the exact shade and extent of 

 A, nipaliciis, Moore ;* a small ferruginous spot near the base of the 

 second discoidal interspace. Hindwing with the costal margin broadly, 

 outer margin narrowly black, abdominal margin pale fuscous, the rest of 

 the wing iridescent deep blue ; anal angle ferruginous, bearing two black 

 spots sparsely marked with metallic silvery scales ; tails black, tipped 

 with white. Underside, forewing pale chrome-yellow, the inner maro-in 

 below the median nervure fuscous, beyond and below the first median 

 nervule whitish ; a very short black streak from the base of the wing 

 touching the costal nervure posteriorly ; a small oval spot beyond in the 

 discoidal cell ; another crossing the cell from the base of the first median 

 nervule to the costa ; an oblique discal band from the middle of the costa 

 towards the anal angle ; a figure of eight beyond, parallel to the discal 

 band and touching the costa; two oblong spots beyond touchiao' in the 

 middle, not reaching the discal band, but forming with it a disconnected 

 Y-shaped figure ; a submarginal catenulated band, ending posteriorly 

 in two black spots in the submedian interspace ; all these spots and 

 bands of a darker chrome-yellow than the ground, broadly outwardly 

 defined with black ; a marginal fine black line more or less broken up 

 into spots. Hindwing pale chrome-yellow ; the spots and bands arrang- 

 ed as usual, coloured as in the forewing, the discal and submaro-inal 

 bands where they are recurved to the abdominal margin marked with 



* J. A. S. B., vol, Hii, pt. 2, p. 27 (1884). 

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