LYCENID#, RAPALA. 463 
DESCRIPTION: ** MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings dull dark lazuline-blue, outer borders 
black. Azndwing with the abdominal margin grey, the anal lobe black. UNDERSIDE, doth 
wings brownish-grey. Forewing crossed by a discal band of two narrow white lunular lines, 
and a short streak at the end of the cell. AMzndwing crossed by similar irregular bands, 
the discal band bent upwards to the middle of the anal margin ; a black spot bordered above 
with ochreous at the anal angle, and another beyond. FEMALE. UPppeERsSIDE, both wings 
purple-grey. UNDERSIDE, doth wings ochreous-grey ; marked as in the male.” 
** Allied to the Javan D. [= #.] varuna, Horsfield, and to D. orseis, Hewitson, from 
Singapore.” (Joore,1. c. in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.) 
** Not uncommon on the lower slopes of the Nilgiris” (G. 7. Hampson.) 
I can find no character by which to separate this species satisfactorily from R. orsezs, 
Typically the latter is glossed with purple on the underside, but this is not a specific character, 
and very many specimens of &. ovsezs undoubtedly lack this feature, especially females. It 
would be more satisfactory in describing such species as this if Mr. Moore would say how they 
differ from their nearest allies, the bald statement that they are allied being hardly any help to 
correct discrimination, 
tool. Rapala rosacea, de N, (PLATE XXV, Fic. 151 ¢). 
R. rosacea, de Nicéville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lvii, pt, 2, p. 285, n. 15, pl. xiv, fig. 12, sale (1888), 
Hapsitat : Sikkim, Khasi Hills. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1'16to 1°56; 9, 1°40 to 1°52 inches. 
DEscRIPTION: ‘ MALE, UPPERSIDE, 60th wings fuscous. Forewing glossed with 
shining deep steely-purple from the base to beyond the middle. Aindwing with all but the 
costa, outer margin narrowly, and abdominal margin broadly glossed with shining deep steely- 
purple. UNDERSIDE, doth wings vinous-red, in some specimens the red colour somewhat 
obsolescent. Forewing with two short dark lines at the end of the cell, a discal very even 
slightly curved narrow dark band from the costa to the submedian fold, a submarginal obscure 
fascia. Aindwing with the disco-cellular and discal markings as in the forewing, but the 
latter at its posterior end assuming a W-shaped figure, the whole band outwardly narrowly 
defined with white, at its posterior end also inwardly defined with white, the anal lobe 
marked with red in the middle, a red spot on the margin beyond the base of the tail, between 
which the wing is irrorated with grey scales, a narrow red line running up from the anal lobe 
to the abdominal margin below the discal line. Cz/éa reddish-brown throughout. TZai/ black, 
tipped with white. FEMALE coloured and marked exactly like the male, but of course lacking 
the male secondary sexual characters.” 
“Mr. Otto Moller possesses five males and six females of this distinct species, all taken 
in Sikkim in March. The reddish-vinous coloration of the underside at once distinguishes 
it from all the species of the genus known to me.” (de Micéville,1.c.) The Rev. Walter A. 
Hamilton has obtained several specimens of this species in the Khasi Hills in the Spring. 
It is just possible that &. vosacea may be a seasonal (Spring) form of &. zissa, Kollar, occur- 
ring in Sikkim and the Khasias, though I have seen no specimens connecting the two species. 
The figure shews both sides of a male specimen from Sikkim in my collection. 
1002. Rapala nissa, Kollar. 
Thecla nissa, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. 2, p- 412, n. 2, pl. iv, figs. 3, 4 (1848) 3 Amblypodia 
nissa, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 46, n. 73 (1857); Deudovix nissa, var. (part), 
Hewitson, Ill, Diurn. Lep., p. 23, n. 19, pl. x, figs. 42, 43, male (nec 44) (1863) ; Bidaspa nissa, Moore, Proc, 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 250 ; id., Doherty, Journ. A.S. B., vol. lv, pt. 2, p. 126, n. 128 (1886) ; Rapala 
nissa, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 370, n. 56. 
HABITAT : Himalayas, Assam, Sumatra. 
EXPANSE : 6, 9, 1°3 to 1°8 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : ‘* UPPERSIDE, 40th wings fuscous irrorated with violet. Aindwing with 
one tail, with a brown ocellus sprinkled with white at the anal angle. UNDERSIDE, both wings 
