466 LYCZNID#. RAPALA. 
are so variable in 2. Aefosiris, I do not think they will prove of much specific value in other 
species of this group of the genus. A description of all these species is appended,* 
1005. Rapala suffusa, Moore. 
Deudorix suffusa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 834, pl. lii, fig. 8, wale; Vadebra suffusa, id., 
l. c., 1883, p. 528. 
HasitaT: Sylhet, Burma. 
EXPANSE: 6, 2, 1°35 to 1°45 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: MaLe. UPPERSIDE, d0¢h wings dull coppery-brown, much as in the male 
of the common Rafgala fetosiris, Hewitson, but a little paler. Forewing beautifully suffused 
in certain lights with rich purple, especially on the black portions of the wing; the costa and 
outer margin about equally broadly, the apex still more broadly black, the inner edge of the 
outer black border irregular, projected inwards in the submedian interspace and below the 
submedian nervure; the veins crossing the coppery-brown area narrowly black. Aindwing 
* Rapala pheretima, Hewitson. Deudorix pheretima, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 21, n. 12, pl. ix, 
figs. 28, 29, male; 27, female (1863); Vadebra pheretima, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 528. 
Hasitat: Singapore; Sumatra ; Sarawak, Borneo. ExpaANsE: 1°7 inches. Description : ‘‘ MALE, UpPER- 
SIDE, both wings rufous-brown, the middie rufous. Hindwing tailed. UNDERSIDE, doth wings rufous-brown, 
crossed beyond the middle by a band of brown, slightly undulated on the forewing and bordered outwardly with 
white, broken into spots on the hindwing and bordered on doth sides with white ; with an indistinct band of 
brown near the outer margin, Forewing with two large spots before the middle. Hinudwing with two or three 
spots ; the caudal spot, the lobe, anda large spot between them, which is irrorated with silvery blue, all 
black ; a silver spot above the lobe. FEMALE. UprersiDE, 40th wings rufous-brown, glossed with blue, 
UNDERSIDE does not differ from the male, except that the spots of the Aindwing are smaller and of a somewhat 
different form.” 
“Variety from Singapore. MALE. UNDERSIDE, 40th wings with the transverse band narrower, straighter, the 
spot nearest the costal margin of the Aizdwing linear.” (Hewitson, |. c.) 
With regard to this last paragraph, if the specimen described has the rufous colouring confined to a discal 
patch on the upperside of both wings it is abundantly distinct from R. Zetosiris. The species has not been in- 
cluded by Mr. Distant in his ‘ Rhopalocera Malayana,’’ It has been recorded as stated above from Burma, but I 
think erroneously. 
Rapala sequeira, Distant. Deudorix seqgueira, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 278, n. 2, pl. xxiii, fig. 21, female 
(1885) ; D. fetosivis, Butler (zec Hewitson), Trans. Linn, Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 549, n. E 
(1877). Hapirat: Malacca. ExpansE: Hemale, 1°5 inches. DeEscripTioNn : “ FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth 
wings violaceous-blue, the margins obscurely fuscous. MWindwing with a black spot on the anal lobe. UNDER- 
SIDE, Joth wings pale brownish. Forewing with a disco-cellular fascia outwardly margined with greyish at the 
end of the cell ; a narrow waved dark fascia outwardly margined with greyish between the end of the cell and ~ 
the outer margin, and a fuscous marginal and submarginal fascia. Azadwing with a transverse dark fascia bor- 
dered with greyish at the end of the cell; a narrow and strongly dislocated fascia outwardly bordered with 
greyish (dislocated at the nervules from the costa to the second median nervule and then continuous and broader 
to the abdominal margin) crossing the wing between the end of the cell and the posterior margin ; a marginal 
and submarginal fascia as on the forewing, a black marginal spot surrounded with greenish scales between the 
second and first median nervules, a patch of greenish scales between the first median nervule and the submedian 
nervure, a black spot on the anal lobe, and two small fuscous spots beneath the costal nervure.” 
** The female specimen captured in Malacca by Capt. Pinwill, and presented to the British Museum, was iden- 
tified in error by Mr, Butler as D. Zetosiris, Hewitson; a species, however, from which D. segueira differs by the 
distinct markings on the underside of the wings, such as the absence of the transverse spot in the cell of the 
forewing [this spot is often absent in true 2. Jezosivis], and by the strongly dislocated transverse fascia to the hind- 
wing, &c. The male has still to be discovered, and will doubtless prove to have the wings above of some shade 
of rufous-brown. My collection contains a Burmese example of the true D. Zefosiris, which perfectly agrees 
with Hewitson’s figure.’’ (Distant,1.c.) ‘This last note is interesting, as it confirms my own opinion that 
R. petosiris occurs typically in Burma, 
Rapala utimutis, Distant. Deudorix utimutis, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 279. n. 3, pl. xxiii, fig. 22, male 
(1885) ; D. pheretima, Butler (nec Hewitson), Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., second series, Zoology, vol. i, p. 549, 
n. 2 (1877). HapitaT: Penang, Malacca. ExpaNse: Made and /emade, 1*6 inches. DescripTion : ‘‘ MALE. 
Uppersipa, Jot wings dark rufous. [It is strange that this species should not have an outer black border more 
or less wide as in R. fetosivis and R. pheretima). Hindwing witha black spot on the anallobe. UNbgrsipx, 
both wings pale brownish, with a transverse dark brown spot margined with greyish, in and at the end of the dis- 
coidal cells of both wings ; followed between the ends of the cells and the outer margins by a narrow transverse 
dark brown fascia outwardly margined with greyish, which on the hindwing is strongly dislocated and sinuated 
from the third median nervule to the abdominal margin, where it is considerably widened ; an obscure submargi- 
nal fascia to both wings, and three marginal spots to the hindwing near the anal angle, the first and third black, 
and the middle one composed of greenish scales; extreme outer margin narrowly paler, the cz/ia dark, 
FEMALE. Drapes both wings pale bluish, the margins irregularly pale fuscous. UNwvERSIDE, doth wings 
as in the male.” 
‘A male specimenin the British Museum captured by Capt. Pinwill in Malacca, and a female Penang 
specimen in my own collection, are the materials which have induced the description of this species. Though 
Mr. Butler included it in his list of the Malaccan butterflies as D. phevetima, he now quite agrees with the 
writer as to its perfect distinctness from that species, as a reference to Hewitson’s figure will testify. D. phere- 
tima, Hewitson (a Bornean species), not only has the spots and fasciz on the underside of the wings of a 
larger character than in D. utimutis, but also possesses a large spot above the cell of the hindwing.” (Distant, 
l. c.) Before these two species of Mr. Distant’s can be said to be firmly established as distinct from 
D. pheretima, it will probably be necessary to examine a much iarger series of each than he had to deal with, 
