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with the base a little dusky, the abdominal margin interiorly pale, outwardly dusky, a fine 
black anteciliary thread, the anal lobe black, the middle occupied by a clump of dull chrome- 
yellow scales. UNDERSIDE, Joh wings dull chrome-yellow. forewing with the disco-cellular 
nervules faintly defined on both sides by a pale brown fine line, a discal inconspicuous curved 
fine pale brown line from near the costa to near the submedian nervure. Aindwing with a 
similar line but springing from the costa, at its lower end recurved to the abdominal margin, 
where it is finely bordered on both sides with white; a small round black spot on the margin 
in the first median interspace, the anal lobe black, an anteciliary fine black line at the anak 
angle, becoming brown above the black spot and so continued to the apex of the forewing. 
FEMALE, UPPERSIDE, Jo¢h wings somewhat shining fuscous much as in the same sex of the 
common Deudorix epejarbas, Moore. Forewing with the apex and outer margin of a more 
saturated tint. UNDERSIDE, doth wings of a clearer yellow than in the male, all the markings, 
the black spot and anal lobe on the hindwing, less prominent. 
R. suffusa is nearest to &. j2rbas, Fabricius,* from which the male differs on the upperside 
in the colour of the ground, in the black borders of the forewing being broader, especially at the 
anal angle, where the border is very broad, while in 2. yarbas at the same part it is reduced toa 
point, in the anal lobe being also: black with a clump of chrome-yellow scales in the middle, 
instead of ochreous-scarlet bearing outwardly a small black spot. The female is quite distinct 
from that of 2. jardas, but is very near to that of X. xerophon, from which it may perhaps be 
known by its brighter yellow colour on the underside, by the area between the black spot and 
anal lobe on the hindwing being hardly sprinkled with metallic-bluish scales, and by all the 
markings being obscure, almost obsolete, instead of prominent. 
Described from two males anda female obtained by the Rev. Walter A. Hamilton in 
Sylhet, and another pair in the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, the male taken at Palone, Burma, in 
June, 1887, the female at Rangoon in January, 1887. I append Mr. Moore’s short original 
description of this species as a foot-note.t I think it not at all improbable that the Deudorix 
éarthema of Distant will prove to be a synonym of this rare species. 
1006. Rapala melampus, Cramer. 
Papilio melampus, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. iv, p. 142, pl. ccclxii, figs. G, H, sade (1781); Bassa 
melampus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 250; id., Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1885, p. 135, 
n. 82; idem, id., 1. c., 1886, p. 429, n. 63 ; Deudorix melampus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 147, 
n. 10; Thec/a sorya, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. 2, p. 414. n. 5, pl. v, figs. 1, 2, weale (1848). 
HABITAT: Coromandel Coast (Cramer); Ceylon, almost throughout India (except the 
desert tracts, Sikkim, Assam and Burma), Nias Island, Sumatra. 
EXPANSE: 6, 92, 1°3 to 1°6 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: MALE. UPPERSIDE, Joth wings scarlet. Forewing with the costa widely 
the apex broadly, and the outer margin decreasingly black, the b/ack border on the outer margin 
nol ending ina point asit does in R. jarbas, Fabricius, being as much as one-twelfth of an inch 
in breadth at the anal angle ; the veins black, the median nervules and the outer portion of the 
median neroure not bordered with black asin R. jarbas. Hindwing with the costa dusky, 
the abdominal margin pale, a fine anteciliary thread on the outer margin, the anal lobe black, 
bearing anteriorly towards the abdominal margin a patch of ochreous scales, and outwardly a few 
scattered metallic greenish ones ; the anal lobe in RX. jarbas being ochreous-scarlet, and bearing 
outwardly a small black spot, but no ochreous or green scales. UNDERSIDE, oth wings 
pale purplish-brownish. Forewing with the inner margin paler, a double narrow darker line 
* I possess two male specimens of R. jarbas, Fabricius, from Sikkim which are distinctly fulvous instead of 
vermilion-red on the upperside, but they are obviously aberrations only. 
t ** Allied to Deudorix (=Rapala] xenophon, Fabricius, male. Mate. Wings slightly broader. Uprer- 
SIDE, forewing with a broader outer band, the red colour suffused with dusky brown. A/indwing also duller red, 
UNDERSIDE, both wings dull sulphur-yellow ; transverse lunular line more curved. Hindwing with the zig-zag 
end of the transverse lunular line at the anal angle black, and with an additional similar line above its 
end.” (Moore, |. c.) The type specimens were taken by Mr. Ossian Limborg at Taoo, Upper ‘Tenasserim, at 
3-5,000 feet elevation. 
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