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15. Rapala rosacea, n. sp., PI. XIV, Fig. 12, cf . 



Habitat : Sikkim. 



Expanse : c?, 1*16 to 1*56 ; $ , 1*40 to 1*52 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside, both wings fuscous. Forewing 

 glossed with shining deep steel-purple from the base to beyond the 

 middle. Sindwing with all but the costa, outer margin narrowly, and 

 abdominal margin broadly, glossed with shining deep steel-purple. 

 Underside, both wings vinous-red, in some specimens the red colour some- 

 what obsolescent. Forewing with two short dark lines at the end of the 

 cell, a discal very even slightly curved narrow dark band from the costa 

 to the submedian fold, a submarginal obscure fascia. Sindwing with the 

 disco-cellular and discal markings as in the forewing, but the latter at its 

 posterior end assuming a W-shaped figure, the whole band outwardly 

 narrowly defined with white, at its posterior end also inwardly defined 

 with white, the anal lobe marked with red in the middle, a red spot on 

 the margin beyond the base of the tail, between which the wing is 

 irrorated with grey scales, a narrow red line running up from the anal 

 lobe to the abdominal margin below the discal line. Cilia reddish-brown 

 throughout. Tail black, tipped with white. Female coloured and 

 marked exactly like the male, but of course lacking the male secondary 

 sexual characters. 



Mr. Otto MoUer possesses five males and six females of this dis- 

 tinct species all taken in Sikkim in March. The reddish- vinous colora- 

 tion of the underside at once distinguishes it from all the species of the 

 genus known to me. 



16. Rapala buxaria, n. sp., PI. XIV, Fig. 13, d'. 



Habitat : Bhutan. 



Expanse : (5", 1'62 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings dark brown overlaid 

 with a deep steel-blue gloss, in certain lights the whole surface shows a 

 resplendent ceerulean coloration of much the same shade as in Rapala 

 schistacea^ Moore, though of far greater extent. Hindwing, the anal lobe 

 with an oval patch of deep vermilion scales, the abdominal margin pale 

 brown and very hairy, tail black tipped with white. Underside, both 

 wings of a pale ochreous-brown colour. Forewing with a pair of fine 

 brown lines closing the discoidal cell ; a very straight oblique discal 

 line from the costa to the middle of the submedian interspace, made 

 up of two equal portions, inwardly of a pale brown portion, out- 

 wardly of a dark brown portion ; a very indistinct submarginal fascia. 

 Hindwing with a pair of very fine brown linos closing the discoidal cell ; 



