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palpi nearly twice as long and stouter (mucli longer in the female than in the male), and the 
male lacking the tuft of hair on 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- 
viUe, I. c.) 
Zinaspa distorta. 
Rapala distorta, de Niceville, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 461, pi. xl. fig. 6, ? . 
Zinaspa distorta, de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 452, pi. xxix. fig. 239, ^ (1890). 
" Male. Upperside : both wings black. 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 the markings less prominent. 
" Female. Ujiperside : 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 wiug vA'ith a lengthened discal patch of bluish 
pui'ple, which occupies the lower half of the discoidal cell, and extends beyond it into the 
discoidal and median interspaces, but docs not nearly reach the outer margin (this patch is 
sometimes entirely wanting). Tail dull ferruginous, tipped with white. Underside ; both 
wings dull ferruginous or cinuamon-coloured, glossed with vinous. Fore wing with a narrow 
white discal line formed of short lunules between the veins, that portion below the first 
median norvule 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 antcciliary line obsolete anteriorly. Cilia brownish 
ferruginous throughout. 
" Allied to Rapala (Surendra) amisena, Hewitsou, who describes and figures the female, while 
Mr. Distant figures the opposite sex, both from Singapore. Differs from the same (female) 
sex of that species, judging from the figure and description only, in having the purple area 
of the upperside of the fore wing of less extent and sharply defined (in It. amiseiia it appears 
to be suffused over nearly the whole wing, with no sharp edges), and on the underside of 
both wings in the markings being fewer and white throughout, instead of dark fuscous ; with 
no trace of the dull light blue irroration at the anal angle of the hind wing, with a lunular 
black spot between the tails, described by Hewitson as occurring in his ' Ambli/podia' 
amisena." {de Niceville, I. c.) 
My collectors found this species rather common at Xi-tou and Huang-mu- 
chang in Western China, during July and August. The specimens ditfer 
from the Sikkim type in MoUer's collection in being smaller and in having 
