458 LYCENID. RAPALA. 
nervules. Cilia black, on the hindwing white from the second median nervule to the anal 
angle. Aixdwing with the anal lobe marked with a small ochreous spot. UNDERSIDE, doth 
wings greenish-ochreous. forewing with two short brownish lines at the end of the cell ; 
a regularly-curved narrow brown discal band from the costa to the submedian nervure. Hind- 
wing with the disco-cellular lines as in the forewing, the discal band also, but outwardly 
very irregular, finely defined with white; a similar short oblique band on the middle of 
the abdominal margin; a round black spot on the margin in the first median interspace 
faintly crowned with ochreous ; the anal lobe black, the space beyond sprinkled with black 
and white; fine anteciliary black and white lines becoming obsolete anteriorly ; ¢az/ long, 
black, tipped with white. FEMALE. UppERSIDE, é0fh wings dull purple, entirely lacking 
the rich deep purple gloss present inthe male. UNDERSIDE, o/h wings bright ochreous, 
the markings as in the male.” 
“Described from several examples of both sexes obtained in Sylhet by the native 
collectors of the Rev. Walter A. Hamilton, also from two females taken by Colonel A. M. 
Lang, R. E., one at Naini Tal, 5,000 feet, on 29th September, the other at Nalaina, near 
Naini Tal, 4,200 feet, on 22nd September, 1887. The blue coloration of the upperside of 
the male is different from that of any species known to me ; the ‘male-mark’ on the upper- 
side of the forewing is also more prominent than in any other species of the genus and different 
in character; it is present in &. orseis, Hewitson, but is less distinct, and is altogether 
absent in 2. sphinx, Fabricius.” (de Nicéville, 1. c.) Since the above was written I have 
received many specimens of both sexes of this species from Sylhet, the wings of one of them, a 
male, I have bleached. The ‘‘scale-marx” on the hindwing is larger than in any other species 
of the genus, higher than broad, nearly reaching the costal nervure, but occupies the same 
position as in the other species. 
The figure of the male shewing both sides is given on Plate XXV, the figure of the femal 
also shewing both sides is given on Plate XXIX, drawn from the type specimens from Shil- 
long in my collection. 
993- Rapala sphing, Fabricius. 
Papilio sphinx, Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 520, n. 326 (1775); Deudortx sphinx, Butler, Cat. Fab. Lep. 
B. M., p. 180, n. 3 (1869); D. varuna, Hewitson (mec Horsfield), Ill. Diurn. Lep., Lycenide, p. 22, n. 16; 
pl. ix, figs. 32, 33, #eale ; pl. x, figs. 36, 37, female (1863). 
Hasirat: East Indies (Fadricius), Sylhet, Burma, Java. 
EXPANSE: 6, 9, 1°5 to 1°7 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings dark indigo-blue in some lights, most 
brilliant rich deep ultramarine-blue in other lights. Forewing with the costa narrowly, the apex 
widely and decreasingly to the anal angle where it ends in a point, black, this iridescent blue 
area a little more extensive than in &. fara, de Nicéville. AMindwing with the costa 
and outer margin narrowly black, the abdominal margin pale fuscous, the anal lobe 
black, inwardly with a patch of dull ochreous-ferruginous scales occupying nearly half the 
lobe. UNDERSIDE, doth wings dull pale fuscous, with deep black markings; the disco- 
cellular nervules defined by two short lines ; a somewhat broad straight even discal band, 
in the forewing not extending below the submedian nervure, where it is gently curved in- 
wards, in the hindwing recurved to the abdominal margin ; an indistinct submarginal some- 
what macular fascia. AHindwing witha small orange spot on the margin in the first median 
interspace centred with black, the anal lobe deep black, with a linear orange bar above it, the 
space between the spot and the anal lobe slightly sprinkled with silvery scales, ody above 
and beneath, abdomen above concolorous with the wings, abdomen beneath bright ochreous. 
FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings as in the male, but the blue shot not so brilliant or 
extensive. UNDERSIDE, Joth wings pale ochreous-brown, all the markings dark brown. 
Hindwing with the lower portion of the discal band filled in with ferruginous ; a fine anteciliary 
white line, obsolete anteriorly. 
