46 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



tips up to the tail, which is black, tipped with white, the rest of the cilia is brown, with 

 pale tips. Underside as in the male, the ground colour generally duller, the sub-basal 

 dark spot below the costa of the hindwing absent. 

 Expanse of wings, $ ? IfV to 1 /q inches. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. 3c, $, 3d, $). 



Male. Upperside smoky-red, very dark and dull in colour, the red colour merging 

 into the black borders which are about the same as in the wet-season brood. Under- 

 side paler and dusky in colour, the spot in the middle of tlie cell of the forewing very 

 small, the spot on the glandular patch in the hindwing obsolete. 



Female. Upperside like the male of the other form. Underside like its own male, 

 of the same pale dusky ochreous-brown colour. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ If-Q to 1-j^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Sylhet, Cachar, Orissa, Burma. 



Distribution. — The type is labelled East India, Elwes records it from the Karen 

 Hills, Watson from Chin Lushai and the Chin Hills, we have received many examples 

 from Sylhet, Sikkim and the Khasia Hills, de Niceville records it also from Cachar, 

 Orissa and Burma. 



RAP ALA NISSA. 

 Plate 715, figs. 1, (J, la, J , lb, ^ (Wet-season Brood), Ic, (J, Id, J (Dry-season Brood). 



TJiecla nissa, Kollar, Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. (2), p. 412, pi. 4, figs. 3, 4 (1848). 



Amblypodia nissa, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 46 (1857). 



Deudorix nissa, var. (part), Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 23, pi. 10, figs. 42, 43, ^ (nee 44), (1863). 



Bidaspa nissa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 250. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 



p. 126. 

 Rapala nissa, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 370. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 463 (1890). 



Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 531. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 413, pi. 29, figs. 



12, ^,15, 9 (1893). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 643. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 307. Mackinnon and de Nice-salle, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 389. 

 Basjia nissa, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 126. 

 Bapala suhpurpurea. Leech, Entom. xxiii. p. 42 (1890). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside shining purplish-brown, with a steel gloss in certain 

 lights. Forewing with the costal and outer marginal borders purplish-black, with the 

 same steel gloss on them, the inner colour merging into the outer ; a small orange 

 patch beyond the cell. Hindwinci with the costal margin pale, the abdominal fold 

 fuscous, anal lobe black, with an orange spot in it ; tail black, tipped with white ; 

 terminal line black. Cilia black, with pale tips. Underside ochreous-brown, varying 



