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side, with a bluish-white cilia, tipped with black, which is continued to vein 3, the rest 

 of the cilia dark grey ; tail black, tipped with white. Underside chocolate-brown with 

 a slight purple tint ; markings darker brown. Forewing with two lines across the end 

 of the cell, a narrow band outwardly edged with whitish, slightly outwardly curved, from 

 near the costa to near the hinder margin. Hindwing with a bar at the end of the cell, 

 prominently edged with white on each side and with a pale line through it ; a discal band 

 of seveja conjoined squarish spots, edged with white on both sides, passing close to the 

 discoidal bar, the third and fourth outwards, the fifth inwards, the seventh angular, 

 running in on to the abdominal margin one-third above the anal angle, a marginal series 

 of white spots decreasing in size upwards and becoming obsolete above the middle of 

 the wing ; anal lobe black, with a small white smear above it containing a short black 

 line, with blue scaling above it and white scaling below it ; a large black spot in the 

 first interspace, almost obliterating the white marginal spot, capped with orange, a 

 small brown spot in each of the white marginal spots in the next two upper interspaces, 

 a black smear, containing some pale blue scales almost obliterating the white spot 

 in the interspace between the large black spot and the anal lobe. Antennae black, 

 ringed with white ; frons ochreous, with a brown medial stripe ; head and body 

 above and below concolorous with the wino-s, abdomen ochreous beneath. 



Female. Upperside brown, shading darker towards the margins. Hindwing with 

 the costal space and abdominal fold pale, anal lobe and tail as in the male. Underside 

 with the ground colour paler and of a greyish tint, markings similarly disposed, but 

 the bands are broader and the sub-terminal black spot in the first interspace on the 

 hindwing is ringed with orange. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^, $ ly%- inches. 



Habitat. — Nikobar Islands. 



Our description and figures are from a pair from Kamorta given to us by the late 

 Colonel Binsjham. 



EAPALA SPHINX. 

 Plate 715, figs. 3, (J, 3a, ?, 3b, ^. 



Papilio sjjJiinx, Fabricius, Syst. Eat. p. 520 (1775). 

 Deudorix sphinx, Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 180 (1869). 

 Rapala sphinx, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 621. 



Bapala rhoecus, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 319, pi. P, fig. 47, ^, and 1896, 

 p. 182, pi. T, fig. 40,?. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark bright l)lue, with a beautiful brilliant sheen in 

 certain lights. Forewing with the costa and outer marginal bands black, of 

 moderate width. Hindwing with the costal and outer marginal bands also black, but 

 usually a little narrower ; abdominal fold blackish ; anal lobe black with some ochreous 

 scales and with a white cilia, tipped with black which extends to the tail, which is 



