4s6 LYCNIDA. RAPALA. 
Eoy'to the indian species of Rapala. 
A. Both sexes of some shade of blue or purple on the upperside. 
a. Both sexes, upperside, forewing with lower discal area, hindwing except costa broadly, 
lilac blue (more restricted in the female) ; underside, forewing with four parallel white 
linear bands, 
o9t. R,. DELIocHUS, Burma. 
é. Male, upperside, both wings black, shot with iridescent blue in certain lights only. 
a', Male, upperside, forewing with round black sexual patch on disc ; underside with 
polished patch from inner margin ; ground-colour ochreous-brown, 
gg2. R. TARA, Kumaon, Sylhet. 
6', Male without secondary sexual characters as in R. tava; upperside in certain lights 
most brilliant deep ultramarine-blue ; underside, ground-colour dull pale fuscous. 
993. R. spHtnx, Sylhet, Burma, Java. 
c', Male, upperside rather less brilliantly shot than 2. sphinx ; underside, ground-colour 
pale ochreous, sometimes glossed with purple. 
994. R. Buxaria, Sikkim, Bhutan. 
ad‘, Male, upperside deep slatey-blue, lower discal area only of forewing and disc of hind- 
wing shot with blue ; underside, ground-colour buff-grey. 
995. R.scuisTacEa, Himalayas, N.-W. Provinces, Bengal, Assam, 
Orissa, Ganjam, Nilgiris, Ceylon, Andamans. 
e!, Male, upperside, pale violet-brown, lower discal area only of forewing and disc of 
hindwing shot with purple ; underside, ground-colour pale ferruginous. 
996. R. (Vadebra) LaNKANA, North Kanara, Nilgiris, Ceylon. 
c. Male, upperside, both wings very dark indigo-blue, hindwing only shot with brilliant 
iridescent blue in certain lights. 
997- R. ScINTILLA, Sikkim. 
d. Male, upperside, both wings deep steely-blue, no iridescent shot, 
a, Underside dull brownish, discal band broad. 
998. R.orsEts, Sikkim, Malda, Bengal, Orissa, Nilgiris, Bombay, 
Assam, Burma, Andamans and Nicobars, Singapore, Sumatra, ' 
999. R. GrisEA, Western Himalayas, 
tooo, R, LazuLina, Nilgiris, Ceylon. 
&', Underside rosy pink, discal band narrow, 
roor. R. RosacgA, Sikkim, Khasi Hills, 
ce’. Underside pale or ochreous-brown, discal band narrow. 
tooz. R. (Bidasfa) nissa, Himalayas, Assam, Sumatra. 
d', Underside pale vinous brownish-buff, discal band narrow. 
1003. R. (Bidasfa) recTivitta, North Cachar. 
B. Male of some shade of red on the upperside, shot with iridescent purple in some lights ; females various. 
a. Male, upperside, rufous ; forewing with outer margin narrowly and decreasingly black ; 
female, upperside dull steely-blue. 
1004. R. (Vadebra) petosiris, Sikkim, Orissa, Assam, Burma. 
&. Male, upperside, rufous ; forewing with outer margin broadly black ; female, upperside, 
shining fuscous, very similar to that sex of R, xenophon. 
toos. R. (Vadebya) surFusa, Sylhet, Burma, 
c. Male, upperside, scarlet ; forewing, with outer black margin not ending ina point ; hind- 
wing with anal lobe black marked with ochreous and metallic greenish ; female, upper= 
side dull brick-red. 
1006. R.(Basfa) MELAmpuS, India, Ceylon, Nias Island, Sumatra. 
d. Male, upperside scarlet, wings broader than in R. melampus ; forewing with outer black 
margin ending in a point ; hindwing with anal lobe ochreous-scarlet, bearing outwardly 
a small black spot ; female, upperside testaceous, with a slight cupreous lustre, 
1007 R. (Wadisefa) JarBas, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Burma, Malay 
Peninsula, Siam, Java, 
e. Male, upperside scarlet, but that colour confined to a small patch on forewing, base of hind- 
wing black; female, upperside uniformly deep brown. 
1008. R. (Wadisefa) xENoPHON, Bengal, Assam, Burma, Malay 
Peninsula, Andamans, Nias, Sumatra, Java. 
Genus Bidasfa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 250. “ Nearest to Virachola, Moore. Fors- 
WING, comparatively more triangular, third subcostal nervule emitted at a slight angle before the end of the 
cell. HinDwInG, less produced hindwards, costal margin longer, apex less convex, discoidal ce// triangular, 
first subcostal nervule emitted at one-fifth before the end of the cell, the broad conical depressed glandular spot 
