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Lep. Mus. E.I.C., from drawings made by Dr. Horsfield in Java. The larva and pupa 

 of B. xenophon are very similar to those of R. jarhas. (de Nicdville.) 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Nias, 

 Andamans. 



Distribution. — Widely distributed, but not common anywhere in the Indian 

 region ; de Niceville records it from Sylhet, Cachar, Calcutta, Burma and Chin Lushai ; 

 we have received a few examples of both sexes from the Khasia Hills. 



RAPALA PETOSIRIS. 

 Plate 714, figs. 3, c( , 3a, 5 , 3b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 3c, ^ , 3d, y (Dry-season Brood). 



Deudorix jpetosiris, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 22, pi. 9, figs. 30, 31, ^ (1863). 



Vadebra petosiris, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 528. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. 



Sec. Bengal, 1886, p. 369. 

 Rapala 'petosiris, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 465 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. 1891, p. 50, and 1897, p. 668. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 643. Swinhoe, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 307. 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 3, $, 3a, ?, 3b, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dull red, veins finely black. Foreicing with moderatel)^ 

 broad black costal band, narrow at the base, gradually broadening to the apex, then 

 narrowly down the outer margin to a point at the hinder angle. Hindioing with a fine 

 blackish outer marginal line, costal area and abdominal fold brown, anal lobe ochreous- 

 red, outlined with black, the cilia white with black tips from the lobe to the tail, which is 

 black tipped with white. Cilia of both wings orange-grey. Underside pale rufous- 

 brown, tinged with ochreous, markings dark brown. Forewing with a dark round spot 

 in the middle of the cell, a bar with a pale centre at the end, a thin discal, almost 

 straight band, outwardly pale-edged from the costa to near the hinder margin. Hind- 

 wing with a round dark spot on the glandular patch below the costa, discocellular as in 

 the forewing and a similar thin discal band, somewhat irregular in its formation, slightly 

 outwardly curved in its middle, its lower portion bending inwards in two blunt angles 

 to the abdominal margin one-third from the anal angle, where it is edged with white on 

 both sides ; anal lobe black, a small black spot in the first interspace with a few scattered 

 silvery scales between them ; both wings sometimes with indications of a sub-marginal 

 fascia, terminal line brown, with an inner white thread on the hinder part of the hind- 

 wing. Antennae black, ringed with white, the club with a red tip ; frons red, with an 

 ochreous stripe on each side ; head and body reddish-brown above, brownish-ochreous 

 beneath. 



Female. Upperside glossy steel- bluish- brown, the shade of colour darkening 

 towards the margins, anal lobe with a black spot, with a bluish-white cilia with black 



