58 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



and, after having compared them all, one with the other, and with the types in the 

 B. M., have been forced to the conclusion that all the above names represent one and 

 the same species. 



RAPALA SCHISTACEA. 



Plate 718, figs. 2, ^, 2a, 9,2b, $. 



Deudorix schistacea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 140. 



Mapala schistacea, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 188.5, p. 48. Doherty, id. 1886, p. 126. 



Wood-Mason and de Niceville, id. p. 369. Hampson, id. 1888, p. 3-59. de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, iii. p. 459 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 50. Betham, id. p. 183. 



Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 307. H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 622. 



Mrs. Robson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. ix. 1895, p. 337, life history. Da%'idson, Bell and 



Aitken, id. 1896, p. 391. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 388. de Rhe-Philipe, id. 



1902, p. 489. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 49. 

 Deudorix varima, Wood-Mason and de Niceville (nee Horsfield), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1880, 



p. 234. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark slaty-blue, the lower discal area of the fore wing 

 and the disc of the hindwing shot with brilliant blue in certain lights. Hindidng with 

 the abdominal fold pale brown. Anal lobe with a black spot, an orange spot on its 

 inner side and some white hairs above it ; tail black, tipped with white. Cilia of the 

 lobe to the tail black, with a white middle line, rest of the cilia on both wings black, 

 with pale tips. Underside, both wings buff-grey, markings a little darker than the 

 ground colour, very fine and usually faint. Forewing with a double line, with a pale 

 line between at the end of the cell, a slightly sinuous discal line, outwardly edged with 

 white, slightly outwardly curved, from near the costa to near the sub-median vein, a 

 sub-marginal line of disconnected lunules, outwardly edged with white, the hinder 

 marginal space pale. Hindwing with similar discoidal and discal lines, the former 

 edged on both sides with white, the latter well separated from it, slightly outwardly 

 curved from the costa to vein 2, then curved inwards in a long loop to the abdominal 

 margin, a little above the anal angle, where it is white-edged on both sides ; a sub- 

 marginal indistinct band ; anal angle black, lined with white above and below it ; a 

 smaller black spot in the first interspace, capped with orange, a terminal black fine line, 

 which becomes obsolete upwards, and a fine anteciliary thread from the lobe to vein 2. 

 Antennae black, ringed with white ; club with a red tip ; frons ochreous with a brownish 

 middle stripe ; eyes ringed with white ; head and body above and below concolorous 

 witli the wings, abdomen below ochreous. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male, with a purplish gloss ; the colour 

 darkening with blackish-brown rather broad bauds on the margins of the forewing, 

 broadest at the apex. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ % l-J^ to 1-jAj inches. 



