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palpi nearly twice as long and stouter (much longer in the female than in the male), and the 

 male lacking the tuft of hair ou the inner margin of the fore wing, and the glandular patch 

 below the costa of the hind wing present in that genus. The eyes are naked." (de Nice- 

 ville, I. c.) 



Ziuaspa distorta. 



Rapala distorta, de Niceville^ Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887^ p. 461, pi. xl, fig. 6, $ . 

 Zinaspa distorta, de Nicevillej Butt. Ind. iii. p. 452, pi. xxix. fig. 239, J* (1890). 



" Male. Upperside : both wings bluck. Fore wing with the basal and lower discal areas very 

 deep shining purple, the costal margin broadly, the outer margin still more broadly and the 

 apex broadest of all, of the ground-colour, the purple coloration occupying about two thirds 

 of the surface of the wing. Hind wing with the basal and lower discal areas very deep 

 shining purple, the costa and apex extremely broadly, the outer margin narrowly, black, the 

 abdominal margin pale fuscous. Underside : both wings as in the female, but of a deeper 

 vinous colour ; all tbc markings less prominent. 



" Female. Upperside : both wings almost black, somewhat paler on the hind wing. Fore wing 

 with all but the costa widely, the apex and outer margin still more widely (which are of the 

 ground-colour), rich bluish purple. Hind wing with a lengthened discal patch of bluish 

 I)uri)]c, which occupies the lower half of the discoidal cell, and extends beyond it into the 

 discoidal and median interspaces, l)ut does not nearly reach the outer margin (this patch is 

 sometimes entirely wanting). Tail dull ferruginous, tipped with white. Underside: both 

 wings dull ferruginous or cinnamon-coloured, glossed with vinous. Fore wing with a narrow 

 white discal line formed of short lunnles between the veins, that portion below the first 

 median nervule shifted inwards : a double submarginal series- of short white lines, more 

 diffused than the discal line, placed between the veins, which gives the appearance of six 

 increasing spots of the ground-colour defined with white. Hind wing with a discal white 

 line as in the fore wing, but much more distorted and irregular ; an obscure similar basal 

 line, and a submarginal very dentate one ; the area beyond the latter irrorated with whitish, 

 including an obscure rounded ferruginous spot in the first median interspace (sometimes 

 centred with black) ; a fine white anteciliary line obsolete anteriorly. Cilia brownish 

 ferruginous tliroughout. 



" .Vllied to liapala (Hurendra) amisena, Hewilson, who describes and figures the female, while 

 Mr. Distant figures the opposite sex, both from Singapore. Differs from the same (female) 

 8CX of that species, judging from the figure and dcscri])tion only, in having the purple area 

 of llic ui)iierside of the fore wing of loss extent and sharply defined (in 11. (imiscna it appears 

 to be suffused over nearly the whole M ing, witli no sharp edges), and on the underside of 

 both wings in the markings l)eing fewer and wliite throughout, instead of dark fuscous ; witli 

 no trace of tlie dull light blue iiroration at the anal angle of tlie hind wing, with ii lunular 

 black spot between the tails, described by Hewitson as occurring in his ' AmUi/iwdia ' 

 firniifena." (de A'ict'ville, I. c.) 



.My collootor.s found tliis species ratlicr common at Ni-tou and IIuan<2^-niu- 

 ehan^,' in Western (Jhina, (ltirin<>- July and August. The specimens differ 

 from the Sikkim type in M oiler's collection in being snialler and in having 



