212 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



by a narrow black line from the base of the short tail to the anal angle. 

 Underside, both icings marked as in the male. 



Much larger than the same sex of the Bornean B. cinesia, Hewit- 

 son, and differing altogether in the character of the white markings 

 on the upperside of the hindwing. 



Described from a single specimen from Jelebu. 



13. RAPALA DELIOCHUS, Hewitson, PI. E, Fig. 6, $ . 



Deudorix deliochus, Hewifcson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 352 ; idem, id., 

 111. Diurn. Lep., Suppl., p. 31, n. 36, pi. va, figs. fi8, 69, male (1878) ; Rapala 

 deliochus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, vol. iii, p. 457, n. 991 (1890). 



Habitat : Rangoon. 



Expanse : $ , 1'5 inches. 



Description: Female. Upperside, both icings with the blue color- 

 ation of a duller shade than in the male, and of greater extent. 

 Forewing has the disco-cellular nervules marked with a black line. 

 Hindwing, the blue colour does not nearly reach the outer margin as 

 it does in the male, and all the veins are black. Underside, both 

 wings marked as in the male. 



Described from two female specimens obtained in June and August 

 by Mr. B. Noble, Curator of the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, who 

 sent them to me for identification. 



14. RAPALA SCINTILLA, de N., PL E, Fig. 5, £ . 



R. scintilla, de Niceville, Butt, of India, vol. iii, p. 461, n. 997 (1890). 



Habitat : Sikkim. 



Expanse : $ , 1*4 to 1'6 inches. 



Description: Male. Upperside, both icings very dark indigo-blue. 

 Hindwing with a patch of most magnificent iridescent blue on the 

 disc beyond the end of the discoidal cell not quite reaching the outer 

 margin, bounded posteriorly by the first median nervule, anteriorly 

 extending just above the second subcostal nervule ; inner margin pale 

 fuscous heavily clothed with long fuscous setas ; anal lobe bearing a 

 very small orange spot. Underside, both icings greenish-gre}^ ; two 

 fine darker grey lines defining the disco-cellular nervules ; a similar 

 discal line, outwardly bounded by a fine white line, slightly outwardly 

 curved in the forewing, extending from the costa to the submedian 

 fold, more curved and somewhat irregular in the hindwing, recurved to 

 the abduminal margin; an obscure submarginal band. Hindwing with 



