42 LEPIDOPTEBA INDIGA. 



Distribution. — The type came from Taoo, Upper Tenasserim, de Niceville records 

 it from Palone, Eangoon and Sylhet, Elwes from East Pegu ; we have received several 

 examples of both sexes from the Khasia Hills. 



RAPALA TESTA. 

 Plate 713, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, $ . 

 Eapala testa, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1897, p. 410. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing black, a small middle space below the 

 median vein, down to the sub-median, dull brownish-red or coppery-red extending 

 narrowly and decreasingly above veins 2 and 3 which are black. Hindiving with the 

 costal and abdominal areas broadly suffused with black, the abdominal fold pale, the 

 outer marginal line and all the veins finely black, the remaining small space in the 

 lower disc of the same dull red colour as in the forewing ; tail black, tipped with white ; 

 anal lobe black with a yellowish spot in it. Cilia black with grey tips. Underside 

 dull pale ochreous-grey, bands as in H. suffusa ; anal lobe black, a black spot in the 

 first interspace, some black suffusion between them which extends a little up the 

 abdominal margin ; outer marginal line finely brown, with a white inner thread. 

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

 ringed with white ; head and body blackish above, with ochreous hairs, ochreous-grey 

 beneath. 



Female. Upperside brown. Foreicing with the inner area pale brown, darkening 

 towards the borders. Hindwing with the disc paler than the rest of the wing, the 

 abdominal fold pale, anal lobe with a black spot with a yellow spot on it, both ringed 

 with bluish-grey, and a white spot above it ; both wings with black terminal line with a 

 pale inner thread at the anal angle of the hindwing. Underside as in the male, the 

 black spot near the anal angle faintly capped with orange. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1-j^, $ ly*^ inches. 



Habitat. — Jaintia Hills, Assam. 



Described from two pairs received from our native collector. 



RAPALA INTERMEDIA. 



Plate 714, figs. 1, <J, la, ? , lb, ^ . 



Deudorix enipeus var. intermedius, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 279 (1888). 

 Bapala xenophon, de Niceville (part). Butt, of India, iii. p. 470 (1890). 



Imago. — INIale. Upperside. Forewing black, a narrow fulvous-red streak below 

 the median vein from the base to the outer two-thirds of the wing, gradually increasing 



