54 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



also have it from Sikkim, and have received several examples of both sexes from the 

 Khasia Hills. 



RAP ALA LANKANA. 

 Plate 717, figs. 2, ^, 2a, ? , 2b, $. 



Beudorix lanhana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 141 ; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 103, pi. 39, fig. 5, 9 



(1881). 

 Vadebra lanhana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 528. 



Rapala (Vadehra?) lanhana, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 359. 

 Bapala lanhana, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 460 (1890). Davidson, BeU and Aitken, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 391. Manders, id. 1904, p. 78. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purple-brown, glossed with deep purple in certain 

 lights. Forewing without markings. Hindwing with the costal area and abdominal 

 fold paler brown, anal lobe blackish with a white fringe, tipped with black ; tail black, 

 tipped with white. Underside rather pale ferruginous-brown, markings brown. 

 Forewing with a discal, thin, even band, from the costa, straight to vein 2, then 

 inclining outwards slightly to the sub-median vein. Hindwing with a similar discal 

 band almost straight from the costa to vein 3, where it bends inwards in very nearly 

 a straight line to the abdominal mai'gin, one-third from the anal angle ; anal lobe 

 l)lackish, a blackish-brown spot in the first interspace with some indistinct whitish 

 scales between them, the discal band edged with whitish above the anal lobe. 

 Antennje black, ringed with white ; frons blackish, eyes ringed with white ; head and 

 body blackish above and below ; palpi white beneath ; legs black, streaked with white. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male, tinged with violet ; marginal line on 

 both wings finely black. Cilia blackish-brown. Underside varying much in the 

 ground colour in difierent examples from pale ferruginous-brown to greyish-yellow, the 

 discal bands broader, but otherwise as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ If^ to 1^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, South India. 



Distribution. — We have both sexes from Ceylon and from Karwar ; the type 

 came from Ceylon ; Hampson records it from the Nilghiris ; it seems to be a rare 

 species. 



RAPALA RECTIVITTA. 



Plate 717, figs. 3, $ , 3a, ? , 3b, $. 



Beudorix rectivitia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 141. 



Bapala rcctmita, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 464 (1890). 



Bapala Imxaria, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 285, pi. 14, fig. 13, $ \ id. Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 459, pi. 25, fig. 152, $ (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 306. Watson 



Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 667. 



