LYCANID#, RAPALA. 4537 
991. Rapala deliochus, Hewitson. 
Deudorix deliochus, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p, 352; idem, id., Ill. Diurn; Lep., Suppl., 
P. 31, n. 36, pl. va, figs. 68, 69, tale (1878). 
Hapirat : East India (Hew7tson) ; Rangoon. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1°33; 2, 1'5 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “MALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing dark brown; the inner margin (which 
is slightly curved outwards where ornamented by a tuft of hair) from its base to its middle, 
and bounded above by the median nervure, lilac-blue. Aindwing with one tail, lilac-blue ; 
the costal margin polished near the base, dark brown below ; the lobe, which is very promi- 
nent, orange and black. UNDERSIDE, doth wings ferruginous, crossed by four distinct linear 
bands of white, the fourth band [in the forewing] near the apex, short ; both crossed by 
two submarginal bands of lunular white spots. Azxdwing with a black caudal spot, bordered 
with orange, and an anal black spot, irrorated with silver-blue,” (Hewttson, 1. c. in Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond.) 
This is a very extraordinary species, and as far as I know has no neat ally, certainly not 
in India, The four parallel white linear bands on the underside have a very curious appear- 
ance, and would enable one at a glance to recognise it. On the upperside it is a good 
deal like Camena icetas, Hewitson, but has one tail only. Ihave removed it from the genus 
Deudorix, as Mr. Hewitson expressly says that it has male secondary sexual characters. 
Since the above was written, I have received two females of this species from 
Rangoon, taken in June and August. They differ from the figure of the male on the upper- 
side in having the blue coloration of a duller shade, of greater extent, in the forewing 
the disco-cellular nervules marked with a black line; in the hindwing the blue colour does 
not nearly reach the outer margin as it does in the male, and all the veins are black. The white 
linear markings of the underside of this species are quite peculiar and are very prominent. In 
the forewing there is a white line across the cell near its end, continued beneath the 
cell to the submedian nervure; then a straight Jine beyond the cell from the subcostal 
almost to the submedian nervure ; beyond which is another line, curved, anteriorly twice 
dislocated inwards, which meets the second line posteriorly ; the fourth line is short, ‘reaches 
from near the third median nervure to the costa, anteriorly broken ; there is a very faint line 
defining the disco-cellular nervules, and two highly lunulated submarginal lines. The hindwing 
is crossed by four discal highly fractured white lines, the submarginal lines as in the forewing, 
the anal markings as described by Mr. Hewitson. 
992. Rapala tara, de N. (Plates XXV, Fic. 150 $, and XXIX, Fic. 241 2). 
R. tara, de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lvii, pt. 2, p. 284, n. 14, pl. xiv, fig. 11, sale (1888), 
Hapsirat : Sylhet, Naini Tal. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1°60; $, 1°65 inches. 
DescRIPTION: “ MALE. UPPERSIDE, oth wings black glossed with rich deep purple- 
blue in some lights, somewhat as in A. sphinx, Fabricius (a common species in Sylhet and 
Burma, and figured by Hewitson as Deudorix varuna), but not of so brilliant or rich a shade. 
Forewing with a prominent round velvety black sexual patch on the middle of the disc 
extending slightly into the discoidal cell and traversed by the bases of the two lower median 
terminates before reaching the first subcostal nervule, and does not extend below into the cell; ¢aiZ slender,, 
Paipfi \ess compactly squamose, club of the antenne shorter. Type &. xissa, Kollar.” (Moore, 1. c.) 
This genus is of course quite distinct from Vivacho/a, but it does not differ structurally from Rapala, Moore, 
Nadisepa, Moore, and Baspfa, Moore. Mr. Moore incorrectly describes the: glandular spot on the hindwing, 
it is exactly similar in shape and occupies the same position as in the above-named genera, and extends a short 
distance along the base of the first subcostal nervule. The genus contains B, wissa, Kollar, and 2B, rectivitta, 
Moore. 
Genus Vadebra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 528. ‘* Intermediate between Nadisepa, Moore, 
and Rapala, Moore. MALE with the outline of the wincs more of the form of the latter, FoREWING, how- 
ever, more acuminate, exterior margin more oblique and even, tuft of hairs on the inner margin the same. 
Hinpwinc, somewhat broader posteriorly, glandular depression prominent. Palpi smoother, club of the antenne 
longer and more pointed. Type V. Jetosiris, Hewitson.” (Moore, |. c.) 
This genus contains V, fetosiris, Hewitson, V. sujfusa, Moore, and V. dankana, Moore, 
