462 LYC/ENIDA. RAPALA, 
‘* A single male specimen was taken by me in Calcutta in April on the flowers of Dios- 
gyros montana, and Major Sage took another male in December. 2. /azulina, Moore, from 
Ceylon, is very closely allied to this species, but unlike Calcutta specimens is not glossed with 
purple on the underside, which Hewitson gives asa distinguishing character of his 2. orseis.” 
(de Nicéville, 1. c.) 
Mr. Otto Moller possesses numerous specimens of both sexes of this species taken in 
Sikkim. The male has usually a more or less prominent round space at and beyond the end of 
the cell of the forewing on the upperside devoid of the deep steel-blue gloss, with the veins which 
cross it pale. The discal band of the underside is always broader than in 2. schistacea, Moore; 
and in some specimens is very broad and amalgamated with the band closing the discoidal 
cell of both wings in the male: itis variable also in the female, but the broadest banded speci- 
mens from Sikkim that I have seen have the discal and disco-cellular bands separated on the 
forewing, but run into one another on the hindwing. In Sikkim it occurs in June, November, 
and December. Mr. Moore has recorded this species from Kamorta in the Nicobars, but no 
specimen has been received from there since. It is, however, common in the Andamans. As 
will be seen from the localities given above, A. orsezs has a wide range, which would be further 
extended if the habitats of the two species which follow were added, as I think they ought to 
be ; neither of them being, in my opinion, distinct species. 
999. Rapala grisea, Moore. 
Deudorix grisea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 140; Rapala grisea, id., |. c., 1882, Pp. 251 3 id, 
Doherty, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 127, n. 130 (1886). 
HasitaT: Deyra Doon, Kangra district, N.-W. Himalayas (Moore); Kapkot, Baghes- 
war, Khati, 3-7,000 feet, Kumaon (Doferty). 
ExpaNse: @, 1°53; 9, 1°6 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “ MALE. UPPERSIDE, Joth wings dull greyish-blue, outer border dusky 
black. UNDERSIDE, doth wings dull lavender-grey, crossed by a broad darker band bordered 
by a pale lunular line, and a cell-streak. Hindwing with the anal spots black, the outer spot 
ochreous-bordered above. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings pale greyish-blue, border dusky 
brown.” 
‘Allied to 2), [==R.] schistacea, Moore.” (Moore, 1. c.) 
“This species, which has the transverse band below broader thanin #. schéstacea, and the 
wings above dull steel-blue in all lights without the brilliant cyaneous reflections of that species, 
has been identified by Mr. de Nicéville as . orsezs, Hewitson (from Sumatra), and so named 
by him in his lists of the butterflies of Sikkim, Calcutta, and the Andaman Isles.” 
‘*An aberrant male and female from Jhulaghat on the western border of Nepal differ 
in the extreme width of the transverse band below, which is very dark, and on both wings 
of the male, and less perfectly in the hindwing of the female, is united with the dark disco- 
cellular band. I prefer not to separate this form from &. grisea, though it is perhaps distinct.” 
(Doherty, 1. c-) 
The variety which Mr. Doherty describes above is one which occurs very commonly in 
R. orseis, Hewitson, and is without doubt of no specific value. 
There is a single female specimen in the Indian Meseum, Calcutta, from Mr. Hocking’s 
Kangra collection, which Mr, Moore identifies as this species. It is quite indistinguishable 
from other specimens he has identified as 2. orseis, and I have but little doubt that the 
name should be sunk as a synonym of that species. 
1000. Rapala lazulina, Moore. 
Deudorvix lazulina, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 140; Rapala lazulina, id., Lep. Cey., vol. i, 
p. 105, pl. xl, figs. 3, 34, ale (1881). 
HapitaT : Ceylon (AZoore), Nilgiris (Hampson). 
EXPANSE : @, 2, 1'25 inches. 
