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sub-margrinal marks. Ilindwiiuj with a dark double line at the end of the cell, a discal 

 band of conjoined lunular marks as in the forewing, the latter straight from the costa 

 to vein 2, then curving inwards in two angles to the abdominal margin one-third above 

 the anal angle, a sub-terminal series of indistinct lunular marks, anal lobe black, with 

 some pale whitish-grey scales above it and between it and a black spot in the first 

 interspace ; terminal line of both wings dark brown, with a white thread on its inner 

 side in the hindwing. Antenn?e black, ringed with white, club with a dull red tip, and 

 a white streak beneath ; frons grey, with a brown median stripe ; eyes ringed with 

 white ; head and body brow^n above, with red hairs, pale purplish-ljrown beneath, the 

 alidomeu ochreous-grey. 



Female. Upperside duller in colour than the male, often more or less brick-red. 

 Forewing with the marginal bands dark brown or blackish-brown. HindwuKj 

 still duller in colour, generally suffused with pale brown. Underside as in the 

 male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1^ to ly% inches. 



Larva, feeds on the flowers of Ougeinea dalhergeoides and Zyziphus rugosus. It 

 is exactly similar to that of R. sc/iistacea, Moore, but the colour is pure white, changing 

 to rose before turning into a pupa. 



Pupa, similar to that of B. schistacea. 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Nias, Sumatra. 



Distribution. — The type came from the Coromandel coast ; we took a good many 

 specimens at Mhow, Bombay and Poona ; Hampson records it from the Nilgiris, Betham 

 from the Central Provinces, Watson from Chin Lushai, Mackinnon and de Niceville 

 from Mussuri, Nurse from Kutch, Aitken and Comber from Matheran, de Rhe-Philipe 

 from Lucknow, de Nice'vilie from Sikkim, Nias and Sumatra. 



RAP ALA JARBAS. 



Plate 71.3, figs. 1, (J, la, ? , lb, $ , Ic, larva and pupa. 



Papilio iarhas, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii p. 68 (1787). 



Hesperia jarbas, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (I), p. 276 (1793). 



Papilio jarhas, Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 40, fig. 3, (J (1800). 



Polyonimatus jarbas, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 646 (1823). 



Thecla jarbas, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 93, pi. 4, fig. 2, larva ; 2a, pupa, 2b-e, structure of 



imago (1829). 

 Nadisepa jarbas, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 249 ; id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 43. 

 Beudorix jarba?, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 278, pi. 24, fig. 15, $ ; pi. 20, fig. 26, ? (1885). 

 Bapala jarbas, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 468 (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, 



p. 531. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 50, and 1897, p. 668. Ehves, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1892, p. 643. 



