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in width and with its end rounded. Hindwing with nearly the whole wing black, the 

 fulvous-red area being confined to a band composed of red streaks divided thickly by 

 the veins which fill up the first and second interspaces and the ends of the third, fourth 

 and fifth ; the abdominal fold pale as usual, the anal lobe black, crowned with red, with 

 white cilia tipped with black, which is continued to the tail, which is black, tipped with 

 white, aud there is a white spot on the abdominal margin just above the lobe, marginal 

 line black. Cilia grey. Underside dark purplish-grey. Forewing with a pale brown 

 line at the end of the cell, with inner white edging, often obsolete, a discal, slightly 

 outwardly curved, pale brown thin line outwardly white-edged. Hindwing with similar 

 discoidal and discal lines, the latter sinuous hindwards, curving in the usual double 

 angle to the abdominal margin, its outer white edging on the lower part rather 

 prominent ; anal lobe black ; a black spot in the first interspace, the space between 

 them black with some bluish-white scales ; both wings with brown terminal line which 

 becomes deep black on the lower half of the hindwing, with a prominent white inner 

 thread. 



Female. Upperside brown, with a faint pinkish-purplish tint, darkening towards 

 the margins. Forewing without markings. liindicing with the costal space and 

 abdominal fold pale ; tail black, tipped with white ; anal lobe with a black spot, 

 crowned with pale orange ; both wings with terminal line black. Cilia grey, white 

 tipped with black on the anal lobe and to the tail. Underside as in the male. 



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



Habitat. — Andaman and Nikobar Islands. 



Distribution. — Distributed apparently throughout the islands ; our description is 

 from two males and a female in our collection from Port Blair : de NiceVille puts this 

 form as a synonym to R. xenophon, Fabricius, but it appears to us to be a very distinct 

 species. 



RAPALA XENOPHON. 



Plate 714, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, $ , 2c, larva and pupa. 



Hesperia xenophon, Fabricius, Enfc. Syst. iii. (1), p. 272 (1793). 



Polyommatus xenophon, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 640 (1823). 



Thecla xenophon, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. i. p. 94 (1829). 



Dipsas xenophon, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. p. 31, pi. 1, figs. 3, larva, 3a, pupa 



(18.'i7). 

 Beudorix xenophon, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 21, ? (1869). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 465, 



pi. 44, figs. 1, <J,2, ? (1886). 

 Nadisepa xenophon, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1885, p. 43. 

 Mapala xenophon, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 470 (1890) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1890, p. 297. H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 623. 

 Deudorix dieneces, Hewitson ( ^ only), 111. Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 31 ; pi. Suppl. 5a, figs, 65, 67, male, 



nee 66, female (1878). de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 48. 



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