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Show 462 MR. L. DE NICEVILLE ON N E W O R [May 3, white discal line formed of short lunules 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 give 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 sub-marginal very dentate one ; the area beyond the latter irrorated with whitish, including an obscure rounded ferruginous spot in the first median interspace ; a fine white anteciliary line obsolete anteriorly. Cilia brownish ferruginous throughout. Allied to Rapala amisena, Hewitson, who describes and figures the female \ while Mr. Distant figures the opposite sex2, from Singapore. Differs from the same sex of that species, judging from the figure and description only, in having the purple area of the upper-side of the fore wing of less extent and sharply defined (in R. amisena 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 Amblypodia amisena. Mr. Otto Moller took two female specimens of R. distorta on 22nd March, in Sikkim, at about 1500 feet altitude. NILASERA WIMBERLEYI, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 4, 2 •) Hab. South Andaman Isles. Expanse. 2 1"65 inch. F E M A L E . U P P E R S I D E : both wings rich cerulean blue. Fore wing with the costa as far as the subcostal nervure, the apex, and outer margin widely black. Hind wiug with the costal and outer margin less broadly black, that colour ascending a short distance into the blue colour between the veins ; tail black, tipped with white. U N D E R S I D E : both wings pale olivaceous. Fore wing with a round spot at the base, an oval one at the middle, and a quadrate one at the end of the cell, with a small one between these two latter placed on the subcostal nervure; a spot at the base of the first median interspace, and another quadrate one in the middle of the submedian interspace; a discal regular macular band composed of six conjoined spots from the costa to the first median nervule, its inner edge almost straight, its outer edge scalloped; a submarginal macular band very prominent about its middle : all these markings fuscous, outwardly defined with sordid white; a fine black anteciliary line. Hind wing with the usual spots and bands, the chief of which are two series of four round spots, each towards the base, an elongated spot closing the cell, and a much broken discal macular 1 Amblypodia amisena, Hewitson, Oat. Lycamida; B. M . p. 13. n. 62, pl. vii. figs. 74, 78, female (1862). % Eapala amisena, Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 277. n. 1, pl. xxiii. fig. 13, male (1885). |
