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underside the ground-colour in the male has a slight cupreous reflection, or is distinctly yellow, 
not dull grey, as in 2. jardas ; the female is of somewhat varying shades of brownish-yellow. 
I find that in the large series of specimens of this species which I possess the extent 
of the red area on the upperside of both wings is considerably variable, the red area in one 
extreme being twice as large as in the other; I have therefore no hesitation in placing the male 
of the Deudorix dieneces of Hewitson as a synonym of &. xenophon, all Hewitson says 
of it being that it differs ‘tin the position of the red portion of the wing.” The female of 
Hewitson’s D. dieneces appears to be quite different, and not believing it to be the opposite 
sex of his male, I propose to restrict the name dzeneces to the female only. Mr. Distant 
does not mention 2. déereces at all in his ‘f Rhopalocera Maliyana,’” though it was described 
from Singapore. I append its description.* 
R, xenophon is a rather rare species in Calcutta: I have taken it in the winter only on the 
flowers of Poinsettia pulcherrima. It does not appear to be common anywhere, though the 
late Mr. R. de Roepstorff sent a good many specimens from the Andaman Isles. 
Rapala domitia, Hewitson, recorded from Malacca, Singapore, Sumatra, and Borneo, 
is a very curious species. The male on the upperside has very much the colouring of the 
same side of the female of Deudorix epijarbas, Moore, with which also it more nearly 
agrees in the outline of the wings than with any species of the genus Xafa/a in which I 
have placed it. On the underside, however, it is totally different, being bright gamboge- 
yellow, with the forewing marked by three prominent black spots only, the hindwing having some 
deep black and metallic green markings towards the anal angle. The secondary sexual characters 
consist of a tuft of black hairs on the inner margin of the forewing towards the base, turned 
under and upwards, and lying across a very large highly polished area extending from the inner 
margin tothe first median nervule, and the usual ‘‘ scale-emark ” of the genus Rafa/a above 
the subcostal nervure of the hindwing, which patch of scales is however narrower than in any 
other species of the genus I have examined. The description of the species is appended.t 
Genus 173.—BINDAHARA, Moore. (PLATE XXIX). 
Bindahara, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 111 (1881) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p, 247 (1884). 
** FOREWING, short, triangular ; costa much arched at the base, exterior margin oblique, 
posterior margin convex in the middle and furnished beneath with a tuft of hair [in the male ; 
in the female the inner margin is straight, and there is no tuft of hair] ; frst sebcostal nervule 
emitted at nearly one-half, second subcostal at one-fifth, and ¢4zrd subcostal just before the end 
of the discoidal cell, fourth subcostal at one-third from below the third, 4/// subcostal from the 
“Rapala dieneces, Hewitson. Deudorix dieneces, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., Suppl., p. 31, n. 35 (female 
only), pl. Suppl. va, fig. 66, female (yec figs. 65, 67, ale) (1878). Hanirat: Singapore. ExpansEe: Female, 
1°3 inches. Description: ‘‘ FEMALE. UPppERSIDE, doth wings rufous-brown, the costa slightiy rufous, 
UNDERSIDE, both wings grey-white, crossed beyond the middle by a dark brown linear band bordered outs 
wardly with white, also crossed by pale brown submarginal bands, Hindwing with the outer band broken into 
spots, the caudal spot (which is large) and the lobe black.” (/Zew#tson, 1. c.) 
My reasons for thinking that that which Mr, Hewitson believed to be the female of his dexeces cannot be the 
opposite sex of his species are these:—In the female he does not describe or figure the two short disco- 
cellular lines on the underside of both wings which are present inthe male, in the male the outer submarginal 
band is not broken up into spots as it is in the female, the caudal spot in the first median interspace is fully twice as 
large and not crowned with orange in the female as in the male, and finally the colour of the ground jis so entire- 
ly different, in the male being said to be “‘ ochreous-brown,’’ and in the female ‘‘ grey-white.”’ 
+ Rapala domitia, Hewitson. Deudorix domitia, Hewitson, Ill, Diurn. Lep., p. 19,n. 7, pl. vi, figs. 6,7, sale 
(2863); id., Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 353, n- 13; id., Butler, Trans. Linn, Soc. Lond., Zoology, 
second series, vol. i, p. 549, n. 4 (1877); id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 280, n. 4, pl. xxii, fig. 7, made (1885) ; 
id., Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., p. 279, pl. xcvi, made (1888). Hapivat: Malacca (Butler), Singapore (//ewrt- 
son), Sumatra (Henley Grose Smith), Borneo (Druce). EXPANSE : 165 to 1go inches. D&SCRIPTION. “ MALE. 
UppersibE, oth wings rufous-brown. or ewing with a longitudinal rufous band within the cell. Hindwing 
with the anal lobe and the ci/za at the base of the tails white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings yellow. Forewing with 
three black spots, one at the middle of the cell, a triangular one on the costal margin beyond the middle, and 
a smaller one between the second and third median nervules ; the apex anda large spot on the inner margin 
grey. Hindwing with one tail ; the outer margin brown, the caudal spot, the lobe, and two spots between 
them black, irrorated with blue, and above these two spots two parallel black lines. FEMALE does not differ 
from the male, except that the UNDERSIDE is nearly white, the third spoton the Jorewing scarcely seen,” 
(Hewitson, |. c.) 
