LYCANID&. - RAPALA. 461 
on both sides above the anallobe, FEMALE. UPppERsIDE, both wings pale violet-brown, 
marginal line black. Cz/éa pale ferruginous, at anal angle of hindwing and beyond the tail white. 
Hindwing with the anal lobe ferruginous, éaz? black. UNDERSIDE, doth wings pale ferruginous, 
the margin darker ; crossed by a narrow ferruginous-brown discal band. Azndwing with a 
black spot at the anal lobe and a speckled spot beyond, both of which and the end of the band 
are bordered with white speckles. Zegs blackish, banded with white.” (Moore, 1. c.) 
I have seen males only of this species. It is very rare, Mr. Hugh Wise has taken it 
in North Kanara in June and July, Mr. G, F, Hampson has met with it on the southern slopes 
of the Nilgiris at 3,500 feet in April, and in Ceylon the type was taken by Captain Wade on the 
edge of high jungle in the Kottawah forest, near Galle. 
997. Rapala scintilla, n. sp. 
HABiITaT: Sikkim, 
EXPANSE: ¢@, 1°4 to 1°6 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings very dark indigo-blue. flindwing with 
a patch of most magnificent iridescent blue on the disc beyond the end of the discoidal cell 
not quite reaching the outer margin, bounded posteriorly by the first median nervule, anteriorly 
extending just above the second subcostal nervule; inner margin pale fuscous heavily 
clothed with long fuscous setz ; anal lobe bearing a very small orange spot. UNDERSIDE, 
both wings greenish-grey ; two fine darker grey lines defining the disco-cellular nervules ; 
a similar discal line, outwardly bounded with a fine white line, slightly outwardly curved in 
theforewing, extending from the costa to the submedian fold, more curved and somewhat 
irregular in the hindwing, recurved to the abdominal margin; an obscure submarginal 
band. Aindwing with a large black spot crowned with a fine white line on the anal lobe, 
a smaller similar spot crowned with a fine orange line in the first median interspace, the space 
between these two spots sprinkled with black and white scales ; a very fine anteciliary black 
line ; cé/ia grey ; ¢az/ black, tipped with white. FEMALE unknown. 
R. scintilla in the male may at once be distinguished from &. schzstacea, Moore, by the 
absence of the blue gloss on the forewing ; from &. orseis, Hewitson, it may be known by the 
presence of the blue gloss on the hindwing. £. scéztc//a therefore appears to occupy a posi- 
tion exactly intermediate between these two species. The greenish-grey shade of the underside 
is also‘distinctive. 
Described from six examples in Mr, A. V. Knyvett’s collection and my own, 
998. Rapala orsels, Hewitson, 
Deudorix orseis, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 23, n. 20 (1863) 5 id., Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1877, 
Pp. 589 ; id., Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, Journ. IN SS LENGE xlix, pt. 2, p. 234,n. so (2880) 5 Rapala 
orseis, de Nicéville, Journ. A. S.B., vol. liv, pt. 2, p. 48, n. 85 (1885) ; id., Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., 
Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 43 (1886). : Ras 
Hasirat : Sumatra (Hewitson), Singapore, Kamorta, Mergui (4oore), Malda, Sikkim, 
Calcutta, Orissa, Nilgiris, Bombay, Andaman Isles, Assam, Burma. 
EXPANSE: @, 11 to 14; 2, 13 to 1°5 inches. : ef. 
DescRIPTION: ‘* MALE. UppERSIDE, Goth wings dark brown, glossed with dull indigo- 
blue. Forewing with the apex rounded. Hindwing tailed, the anal lobe black, with a spot 
of orange-yellow. UNDERSIDE, both wings rufous-brown, glossed with purple, a large spot at 
the end of the cell, a transverse rufous-brown band beyond the middle (not continuous where 
the wings meet), nearly straight and equal on. the forewing, Broad and slightly broken on the 
hindwing and bordered on both sides with white. AMizdwing with the caudal spot (which 
is crowned with orange) and the lobe black, the space between them ironed with silvery- 
white, a submarginal line of white, the margin black.” (Hewitson, 1. c.) ' FEMALE. Ue- 
PERSIDE, Joth wings lighter than in the male, with a distinct purple gloss which has a light 
steel-bluish tint at the base. UNDERSIDE, doth wings lighter, with all the markings more 
distinct.”’ (Wood-Mason and de Nicéville, \.c.) ; 
