DEUDOBIXIN^. 41 



Lufshai and the Chia Hills, Manders from the Shan States, de Niceville fram Sikkini 

 and Bhutan, and Horsfield and Moore from Java, Distant from the Malay Peninsula. 

 This species much resembles H. melampus, but can easily be recognised by its scarlet-red 

 anal lobe, the anal lobe of melampus being black. 



RAPALA SUFFUSA. 

 Plate 713, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, <J . 



Deudorix suffusa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 834, pi. 52, fig. 8, ^ . 

 Vadebra suffusa, Moore, I.e. 1883, p. 528. 



Eapala suffusa, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 466 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 

 p. 643. H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 682. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dull coppery-red. Foreiclng with broad costal and 

 outer marginal black borders of almost even width, the black colour filling the basal 

 two-thirds of the cell, the inner margin of the outer marginal band uneven, the median 

 vein and its branches black, a little blackish suffusion on the hinder margin. Hindwin)/ 

 with the costa pale, the basal and abdominal areas suffused with blackish, the 

 abdominal fold pale, outer marginal line black ; tail black, tipped with white ; anal 

 lobe with a black spot ringed with pale bluish-white, a pale yellowish spot on its inner 

 side. Cilia grey. Underside dull chrome-yellow. Forewing with a pale double line 

 at the end of the cell, one on each side of the discocellulars, often obsolete, a discal 

 narrow grey lunular line, with outer pale edge, and slightly outwardly curved, very 

 indistinct. Hindioing with a similar discal line, its lower end curving in two angles on 

 to the abdominal margin one-fourth from the anal angle, where its white edging is 

 more conspicuous and somewhat silvery ; anal lobe black, ringed with white, with a 

 short silvery line running from above it on to the abdominal margin, parallel with the 

 silvery edging of the discal line ; a smaller black spot in the first interspace, a few 

 black and white scales in the interspace between them ; both wings with a fine brown 

 marginal line, which becomes black, with a white inner thread towards the anal angle. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white ; club with a red tip ; frons chrome-yellow ; eyes 

 ringed with white ; head and thorax brown above with greenish hairs ; abdomen 

 reddish-brown above, chrome-yellow beneath. 



Female. Upperside purple-brown, shading into blackish on the borders, outer 

 marginal line on both wings black ; tail black, tipped with white ; anal lobe with a 

 black spot, ringed with bluish-grey, with a small yellow spot on it. Cilia bluish-grey, 

 with black tips from the tail to the lobe. Underside as in the male, the ground colour 

 usually paler, consequently the markings more distinct. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^, % l-j^ to lyg- inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Sylhet, Assam. 



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