NYMPHALID.'E. SATVUIN/E. RIIAPIIICERA. 175 



Genus 14-— LHAPEICEHA, lUuIer. (Plate XV.) 



A'Aa/Zi/a-m, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist , third scries, vol. xi.\, p. 164, pi. iv, fig. 4^ (1867), 

 structure. 



" Fore-whiq elongate triangular, the costa .subconvex ; outer margin .short, convex ; inner 

 margin nearly straiglit. Neuration as in Lasioiiiina/a ; nervures scarcely dilated at base ; the 

 disco-ceUuhxi-s oblique. Hindwhto- \,^x\{o\m ; costa aln.ost straight ; outer ninrgin denticulate ; 

 inner margin almost entire. A/iteitim reaching to the middle of the forewing, elongate, 

 slender, the club gradually formed, /"(t/^/ elongate, woolly; the terminal joint short, distinct. 

 Jiyes hairy." {Butler, 1. c.) 



The neuration differs somewhat from that of Lasuuiimata. In the forriving the first and 

 second disco-cellulars are very short, the two discoidal nervules originating close together, and 

 close to the subcostal nervure ; the third disco-cellular is long, nearly straight and oblique. 

 In the hindiviug the second median nervide originates slightly before the apex of the cell 

 in the typical species {R. saiiiciis), and evactly opposite to it in the only other Indian species, 

 while in Lasio/itiiiala it originates beyond the apex. 



Only three species are known, two of which occur in the Himalayas, and the third at 

 Mou-pin in Thibet. The colouration is dark orange-yellow, much marked with black, and the 

 pattern is the same on both upper and undersides ; the hindvving is also prominently ocellated 

 on the underside. They are forest loving insects, settling on the leaves of trees and bushes, 

 with a quick darting flight, and having nothing protective in their colouring they are pro- 

 minent objects when settled. Both species aie rare and very local. The sexes are only 

 slightly differentiated, the female having the same colour and style of markings as the 

 male. 



Sey to the Indian Species of Ehaphicera- 



A. Wings orange-yellow ; the nervures and some bars across the wings and spots black. Hindwing with a 

 submarginal series of ocelli. 



a. 'ihe nervures narrowly black. 



i6g. R. SATRicus, Eastern Himalaya^!. 



b. The nervures broadly black ; the base of both wings irrorated with fuscous. 



170. k. MOOREi, Western Himalayas. 



169. Hhapllicera SatriCUS, Doubleday, Hewitson. 

 Lasiommata sairicus, Doubleday, Hewit-on, Gen. D. L., p 387, n. 14, pi. Ixiv, fig. 4 (1851), _/^;«,j/^ ; 

 Rluifihiceta satriciis, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. xix, p. 164, pi. iv, fig. 3 (1867), 



Habitat : Eastern Himalayas. 

 Expanse : 25 to 27 inches. 



Description : Male : Upperstde rich dark orange yellow ; all the nervures black. 

 Fon'iv!iig\vit\\ a narrow black bar across the cell in prolongation of the first median nervule, 

 and another much broader one in prolongation of the second ; a broad irregular band beyond 

 the cell from the costa to the first median nervule, and sharply angled outwardly at its middle 

 on the third median nervule ; a short subapical bar from the costa ending with a round spot 

 between the di.scoidal nervules, a large round spot on the lower median interspace, and the 

 outer margin irregularly (narrowest on the lower median interspace) and the inner margin 

 extending to the submedian nervure, black. Hindwing with a similar angulate band beyond 

 the cell, narrow from the costa, almost obliterated above the discoidal nervule, broad and pro- 

 minent across the median nervules ; four large round submarginal spots, one on either side 

 of the second subcostal, and one on either side of the second median nervule, and the outer 

 margin, black ; two narrow orange lines on the black margin ; cilia, orange. Underside. 

 Forerving paler yellow ; markings as on upperside, but the apex and outer margin also yellow, 

 bearing a fine black line on the extreme margin, and another incomplete within it, and an 

 irregular line much wider about the third median nervule and following the outline of the 

 dark border of the upperside ; the lower submarginal spot having a small white pupil and the 



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