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])lack tipped witli white, the rest of the cilia black on both wings. Underside purple- 

 brown, of somewhat various shades of colour in different examples, markings darker. 

 Forewing with two lines closing the cell, a discal, transverse narrow band, outwardly 

 curved, reaching neither the costa nor the hinder margin. Hindwing with similar 

 bands, the discal band curving hindwards, as usual, to the abdominal margin, where it 

 is edged on both sides with white ; anal lobe black, with a white line above it, which is 

 continued half way up the outer margin, both wings with a sub-marginal paler 

 coloured macular series of marks. Antennae black, ringed with white, club with a red 

 tip ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings ; abdomen ochreous 

 beneath. 



Female. Upperside like the male, the blue sheen almost as bright in some 

 examples, the black bands somewhat broader. Underside exactly as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1-j^ to \-^-q inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Java, Sumatra. 



Distribution. — The Fabrician type in the Banksian Cabinet in the B. M. is said 

 to have come from the " East Indies," which probably means Java ; we have it from 

 Java ; de Niceville's types of rhozcus, which undoubtedly represent this species, came 

 from N.E. Sumatra ; there are several examples of both sexes in the National 

 collection from Java, Burma, Sikkim and Sylhet, a pair of which we figure. 

 H. H. Druce records it from Kina Balu. 



RAPALA NICEVILLEI, nov. 

 Plate 716, figs. 1, (J, la, 9, lb, ^. 



Rapala sphinx, de Niceville (nee Fabricius), Butt, of ludia, iii. p. 458 (1890). Swinhoe, Traas. Ent. 



Soc. 1893, p. 306. 

 Deudorix varuna, Hewitson (nee Horsfield), 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 22, pi. 9, figs. 32, 33, (J, pi. 10, 



figs. 36, 37, ? (1863). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark indigo-blue, with a shining gloss in certain 

 lights. Forewing with the costal and outer marginal line black. Hindwing with the 

 costal space, outer marginal line and abdominal fold black, the last paling somewhat 

 towards the base ; anal lobe black with an orange spot in it, on its inner side, and 

 edged outwardly with a white cilia, tipped with black, which extends to the tail, which 

 is black, tipped with white ; the rest of the cilia on both wings black. Underside 

 purple-brown, the colour shading darker and paler in parts in some examples, fairly 

 uniform in others, markings blackish-brown. Forewing with a double line at the end 

 of the cell, a discal, outwardly curved band of moderate width from near the costa to 

 near the hinder margin, where it has a slight inward curve. Hindwing with similar 

 discoidal mark and discal band, both somewhat indistinct, the latter with some white 



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