430 LYCANID. DRUPADIA. 
only gently and regularly arched ; and the costal nervure is much longer (extending nearly 
to the apex of the wing) than in the male, in which it is extraordinarily short. 
This genus cannot be mistaken for any other, being abundantly distinct. From the genera 
with two subcostal nervules to the forewing and three tails to the hindwing, it may be known, 
in the male, by the abnormal shape of the hindwing, and the costal nervure reaching to about 
the middle only of the costal margin, instead of to the apex, as in Rathinda, Moore, 
Catapecilma, Butler, and Zooxylides, de Nicéville. It has alsoa round glandular patch of 
scales on the hindwing of the male near the costa, which is not found in any of the allied genera. 
It contains four species only, all of which, except D. ravindra, Horsfield, (which occurs in 
Nias Island (A%ez/) and Java) are described in this work. 
Eey to the Indian species of Drupadia. 
A. Both sexes, upperside, forewing with discal orange patch small, 
974. D. vistas, Nicobar Isles. 
B. Both sexes, upperside, forewing with discal orange patch large. 
975. D. sorspuvatt, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Burma. 
974. Drupadia lisias, Fabricius. 
Papilio lisias, Fabricius, Mant. Ins., vol. ii, p. 65, n. 615 (1787) ; id., Donovan, Ins. India, p. 60, pl. xl, 
figs. 1, female (1800) ; Hesperia lisias, id., Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. 1, p. 261, n. 12 (1793) 5 Myrina lisias, Godart, 
Enc. Méth., vol. ix, p. 593, 0. 2 (1823) ; id., Butler, Cat. Fab. Lep. B. M., p, 184,n. 5 (1869) ; Hyfolycena lisias, 
Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 833; Drupadia lisias, Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 32 
(1884) ; id., Waterhouse, Aid, vol. ii, pl. clxv, figs. 2, 3a, male ; 3, female (1886). 
HaBITaAT : Pulicandor, =Pulo Kondul, one of the Nicobar Isles (/adricius) ; on this 
side of the Ganges (Godart) ; India (Westwood) ; Barrackpore (Buéler); Ahsown; Meetan, 
April ; Moolai, 3—6,000 feet, all in Upper Tenasserim (AZoore). 
EXPANSE: &, 1°353 2, 1°30 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : MALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing differs from D. doisduvalii, Moore, des- 
cribed below, in the orange patch being much smaller, about half as large, not nearly reaching 
the outer margin or anal angle. Otherwise as in D. doisduvaliii FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, 
forewing also with the orange patch much restricted, even smaller than in the male. 
The above description is drawn up from Mr. Waterhouse’s figures of the type specimens 
n“ Aid’ Mr. Moore identifies ‘‘ Pulicandor” the habitat of the type specimens with Kondul 
Island inthe Nicobars. Although I have received collections from those islands almost conti- 
nually for many years, no specimen of this species has reached me from there. It is probable 
that all the other localities given above forthe species are incorrect ; they should be applied 
to D. boisduvalii, Moore, except Barrackpore, which is almost certainly entirely erroneous for 
both. Mr. Butler correctly remarks that “ Donovan’s figure”’ of this species ‘‘ is most incorrect ; 
the hindwing should be dark brown, not fulvous.” Mr. Moore also notes ‘* Drupadia lisias 
(Papilio listas, Fabricius), badly figured in Donovan’s Insects of India, is distinct from 
D. boisduvalii, Moore. Both sexes of the type of D. /ésias, Fabricius, are in the British Museum 
collection.” Except these last named specimens, no others are known, and the species has to 
be rediscovered, 
975. Drupadia boisduvalii, Moore. (PLATE XXIX, Fic, 230 ¢). 
D. boisduvalii, Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. jiii, pt. 2, p- 3% (1884) ; Biduanda boisduvalii, id., Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 42 (1886) ; Myrina lisias, Boisduval (nec Fabricius), Sp. Gén., vol. i, 
pl. xxii, fig. 2, ade (1836). 
Hapitat : Chittagong Hill Tracts, Rangoon, Mergui, Moulmein, 
EXPANSE: @, 1°25 to 1°45; 2, 1°20 to 1°50 inches. 
DEscRIPTION : ** MALE. UPPERSIDE, /orew?ng purplish violet-brown, with a broad 
oblique transverse discal almost quadrate red band. Aindwing cobalt-blue, darkest and 
purplish-violaceous anteriorly ; costal border and abdominal margin violet-brown. Ci/ia and 
