50 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



edging on both sides where it curves in on to the abdominal margin a little above the 

 anal angle, some white scaling between it and the black anal lobe, which has a whitish 

 line above it, which is continued as an anteciliary thread up the wing indistinctly and 

 becomes obsolete about vein 4 ; both wings with indications of a sub-marginal macular 

 series. Antenna black, ringed with white, club with a red tip ; frons black ; head and 

 body above and below concolorous with the wings, abdomen ochreous beneath. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male and without the blue gloss. Forewinc/ 

 with broad blackish costal border, narrower outer marginal border. Hindwing with 

 the costal space broadly blackish, the abdominal fold blackish-brown, the blue colour 

 on both wings merging into the borders, so that they can only be distinguished in 

 certain lights. Underside with the ground colour paler than in the male, sometimes 

 somewhat ochreous-brown, in some examples with a slight ochreous tint, markings 

 similarly disposed, but more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, $ l-f^ to ly%, ? \^^ to 1^-q inches. 



Habitat. — Sylhet, Assam, Burma. 



Distribution. — Recorded by de Niceville from Eangoon and Sylhet ; we have it 

 from Rangoon and have received many examples of both sexes from the Khasia Hills, 

 where it appears to be quite a common species ; de Niceville misidentified this species. 

 Eapala sphinx on the underside is very similar to our species, but on the upperside it 

 is abundantly distinct, the beautiful blue colour and distinct black borders of R. sphinx 

 making it far and away the most beautiful Rapala we have ever seen. 



EAPALA SCINTILLA. 

 Plate 716, figs. 2, ^, 2a, ? , 2b, <J . 



Bapala scintilla, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 461 (1890) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, 

 p. 210, pi. E, fig. 5, <J. H. H. Druce, Pioc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 622. 



Imago. — Upperside dark indigo-blue, both wings with the outer marginal line 

 black. Cilia with the base black, outer half grey. Ilindiving with a patch of iridescent 

 lilue on the disc (only to be seen in certain lights) beyond the end of the cell, not quite 

 reaching the outer margin and hindwards down to vein 2, upwards to vein 6 ; 

 abdominal fold brown, anal lobe black, with a small orange spot on the middle of its 

 outer side, a pale mark on its upper side, a white cilia tipped with black which is 

 continued to the tail, which is black, tipped with white. Underside dark greenish- 

 grey, markings slightly darker than the ground colour. Fvrewing with a double line 

 ut the end of the cell, edged on each side with white, a thin discal baud or thick line, 

 outwardly edged with white, nearly straight down from the costa to the sub-median 

 nervure. Hindwing with similar discoidal and discal lines, the latter somewhat 



