.38 LEPIBOPTERA INBICA. 



cud of the cell, 11 emitted from the cell, about two-thirds from the base, 10 from 

 three-fourths, 9 from the middle of 7, discocellulars nearly upright, very slightly 

 outwardly oblique, the lower a little the longer, vein 3 emitted a short distance before 

 the lower end of the cell, wing short, outer margin slightly convex, a broad tuft of hair 

 on the middle of the hinder margin in the male, and in some species a patch of 

 differently formed scales from those on the rest of the wing, on the upperside at 

 and beyond the end of the discoidal cell. Ilindtcing somewhat produced hindwards, anal 

 angle lobed, a filamentous tail of moderate length at the end of vein 2 in both sexes, 

 H glandular patch of scales placed above and against the sub-costal nervure in the 

 male, extending a little distance along the base of the first sub-costal nervule, 

 usually semicircular, variable both in shape and size, but not extending into the 

 discoidal cell, discocellulars outwardly oblique, straight and of equal length, vein 3 

 emitted just before the lower end of the cell ; the genus appears to be strictly 

 I'.oufined to the Indo-Malayan region. 

 Type, Thecla varuna, Horsfield. 



RAPALA MELAMPUS. 



Plate 712, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, ? , 4b, ^ . . 



Papilio melampns, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 142, pi. 362, figs. G, H, (J (1781). 



Basjja meJampus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 250. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 188.5, 



p. 48. Doherty, id. 1886, p. 126. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 188-3, p. 13-5, and 1886, p. 429. 

 Dendorix melampus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 147. 

 Rajwla (Baspa) melampus, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 359. 

 Bapala melampus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 467 (1890); id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1890, p. 386. Betham, id. 1891, p. 183. Watson, id. p. 50. Mackinnon and de Niceville, 



id. 1898, p. 389. Nurse, id. 1899, p. 512. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 49. 



de Rhe-PhOipe, id. 1905, p. 720. 

 Thecla sorya, Kollar, Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. (2), p. 414, pi. 5, figs. 1, 2, ^ (1848). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside scarlet. Foreicing with the costal and outer marginal 

 bands black, of moderate width, gradually increasing from the base to the apex, then 

 gradually narrowing on the outer margin to the hinder angle, veins finely black, 

 Hindwing with the costal space pale dusky, outer marginal line finely black, anal lobe 

 black, with some ochreous scales above on the inner side and a few scattered metallic 

 greenish scales on the outer side ; tail black, tipped with white. Cilia black with 

 greyish white tips. Underside pale purplish-brown, markings a little darker than the 

 ground colour with whitish edges. Forewing with the Tiinder marginal space pale, a 

 double dark line at the end of the cell, one on each side of the discocellulars, a narrow 

 nearly straight discal line of conjoined lunular marks from near the costa to the sub- 

 me'.lian vein, the third from the costa a very little outwards, indications of a series of 



