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Show 1887.] LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES FROM INDIA. 461 margin at the anal angle black, the rest of the wing rich peacock-purple ; a quadrate spot beyond the end of the cell and an elongated one beyond and below it in the second median interspace, orange. Cilia black. Hind wing unmarked, the tail tipped with white. Cilia white, tipped with black, except at the termination of the veins from the second median to the second subcostal nervule, where the cilia are entirely white. U N D E R S I D E brownish fuscous. Fore wing with the discocellular nervule defined with a white line on each side, an obscure darker broad discal fascia outwardly defined with a narrow white line from the costa to the first median nervule, beyond which the wing is sprinkled with pale violet scales ; another dark fascia from near the anal angle, decreasing in width from the inner margin to the third median nervule, where it becomes obliterated, also outwardly defined with a whitish line. Hind wing sprinkled almost throughout with pale violet scales ; a broad irregularly wedge-shaped discal fascia, free of violet sprinkling, broad on the costa, narrowing to a bluntly rounded point above the anal angle, its margins defined with a fine violet-white line ; another similar fascia beyond, inwardly defined with violet-white lunules; two subbasal ring-spots, one of which is with the discoidal cell, and a pair of lines on the abdominal margin, all violet-white ; an oval black spot in the first median interspace, surrounded by a deep orange ring; a deep orange patch at the anal angle extending a short distance up the abdominal margin ; a fine anteciliary dark line, inwardly defined by a white line. Zephyrus pavo is nearly allied to the Z. katura of Hewitson l, that species being probably the female of Z. ataxus, Doubleday and Hewitson, but differs on the upperside of the fore wing in having the basal area of a richer shade of purple, of greater extent, and not divided by the black veins; on the underside the silvery bands in Z. katura are replaced in Z. pavo by violet irrorations ; they also differ in other minor particulars. The type specimen is unique, and is deposited in Mr. A. V. Knyvett's collection, by whose native collectors it was obtained near Buxa in Bhutan. RAPALA DISTORTA, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 6, 2 •) Hab. Sikkim. Expanse. 2 1*6 inch. F E M A L E . U P P E R S I D E : 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 groundcolour), rich bluish purple. Hind wing with a lengthened discal patch of bluish purple, which occupies the lower half of the discoidal cell and extends beyond it into the discoidal and median interspaces, but does not nearly reach the outer margin. Tail dull ferruginous, tipped with white. U N D E R S I D E : both wings dull ferruginous or cinnamon-coloured, glossed with vinous. Fore wing with a narrow i Dipsas katura, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep., Lycenida, p. 65. n. 4, pl. xxvi. figs. 1, 2, female (1865). PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1887, No. XXXI. 31 |