C4G NYMPHALIDyP., NYMPHAI.IN;F.. RIlINOPALrA, 



These two species agree in having the cosla of ihe foiewing slighlly excavated near the base, as 

 in some species of Giapln, and the apex falcate, the outer margin in A', fnha is deeply excavated 

 below the falcation, and produced again at the extremity of the first median nervule, while in 

 Yoma vasiiki (the Indian species) it is nearly straight ; the hindwing in R. fnha is tailed at the 

 termination of the discoidal nervule, in Y. sabiua (described from Amlioyna) and Y. vasiikiWiQ 

 tail is produced at the third median nervule. There are also many differences in venation, in 

 Kh'uwpalpa the discoidal cell of both wings is open, in Yoma it is closed, &c. A', fuha is rich 

 fulvous on the upperside with a dark brown border on the outer margin, with three or four small 

 round black spots within the dark border on the hindwing, the female paler ; F, vasuki is dark 

 brown with a broad discal reddish ochreous band. The genus contains some eight or nine des- 

 cribed species, occurring in Assam, Cachar, Arakan, Upper Tenasserim, the Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, Java, Celebes, the Philippines, Amboyna and New Guinea. 



Zey to the Indian species of Rhinopalpa. 



A. Hindwing produced into a tail at the termination of the discoidal nervule. 



542. R. FULVA, Assam, Cachar, Chittagong, Upper Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula. 



B. Hindwing produced into a tail at the termination of the third median nervule. 



543. R. (l'o;««) VASUKI, Arakan, British Burma. 



542. Hhinopalpa fulva, Felder. (Plate XXIII, Fig. 102 ^). 



R, fulva, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 399, n. 21 (i860) ; id., Butler, Trans. Linn. See. Lond., 

 Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 545, n. i (1877); id.. Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 98, n. i, pi. .\ii, figs, i, 

 male ; 2, female (1SS3) ; Eiirhinia fulva, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xvi, p. 307, 

 n. 54 ('885). 



Hauitat : Assam, Cachar, Chittagong, Arakan, Upper Tenasserim, Province Wellesley, 

 Malacca. 



Expanse: (?, 2-3 to 3'I ; ?, 2*9 to 32 inches. 



Description : " Male. Upperside, deep fulvous, yi^y^^/w^ with the border, hindwing 

 with the external margin black; the latter with four posterior rounded black spots. 

 Underside, both wings shining brown, with two fuscous basal fascioe girdled with bluish, 

 near which a pair of undulate bluish strigcX, a third discal and an exterior fascia fuscous. 

 Forewing with six ocelli, hindwing with five. Closely allied to A', polynice, Cramer," {Felile>-, 

 I.e. in. Wien. Ent. Monatsch.) 



"Male. Upperside, /t);«w«^ reddish ochraceous, with a broad fuscous outer marginal 

 border, which is inwardly slightly concave. Cilia greyish. Hindwing reddish ochraceous, with 

 a broad fuscous outer marginal border, narrowing and terminating above discoidal nervule, be- 

 tween which and the anal angle are two submarginal fuscous lines, the outer one broadest, and 

 both preceded by three [or four] round fuscous spots, situated [one in the subcostal interspace] 

 two between the median nervules, and one between the third median and the discoidal 

 nervules— the colour at the area of these spots is distinctly darker ; extreme margin fuscous, 

 with the cilia greyish, and a fuscous spot at anal angle posteriorly surrounded with an 

 obovate violaceous margin. Underside fuscous, the basal halves darkest, where they 

 are crossed by two irregular al.iiost concolourous fasciaa, denoted by their margins, which 

 are pale bluish and much-waved, siuuated and broken ; about the middle the wings are 

 also crossed by three contiguous, much-waved and sinuated pale bluish lines, the outer one 

 of which is broken and somewhat indistinct — between these lines the colour is paler, and 

 they are outwardly bounded by a waved fuscous line, which in some places becomes confluent 



and the apex of the wing ; u/'per- disco-cellular somewhat long, directed obliquely outwards ; viiddle disco- 

 cellular strongly angled, four times as long as the upper, its upper two-thirds straight, directed inw.irdly, its 

 lower one-third also straight directed outwardly, loiuer disco-cellular outwardly concave, joining the median 

 nervure just beyond the origin of the second median nervule, half again as long as the iniadle disco-cellular. 

 Hindwing produced into a short blunt tail at the end of the third median nervule and another at the anal angle, 

 the abdominal margin regularly excavated below the internal nervure, not deeply and sharply and ending in two 

 anal lobes as in KhiuoJ-alpa ; the fnecostal nenurc slightly bifid, the discoidal cell Q\oi<iA by .•» fine lou<er disco- 

 cellular novule, somewhat concave, and joining the median nervure some distance before the origin of the second 

 median nervule, the base of the discoidal iiervuic more curved than in Khiuopalpa. 



Near to Hypolimnas, but differs widely in outline and in the shape and position of the disco-cellular nervules 

 of both wings, these latter distinguish it from Dic/iortagia, which in neuration comes nearest to it among Indian 

 butlerllies. Krom Vanessa and allied genera it differs in the s|jort broad cell of the furewing, with its deep 

 acute upper angle mure remote fruin the base than its lower one. 



