60 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Provinces, Watson from Chin Lushai, Mrs. Eobson from Massuri, de Rhe-Philipe from 

 Luckuow, Aitken and Comber from Matheran and Bombay, Wood-Mason and de 

 Niceville from Cachar, Hampson from the Nilghiris, and Davidson, Bell and Aitken from 

 Karwar ; they say : " We have reared the larva on the flowers of the common garden 

 creeper Quisqualis, and also on those of Acacia csesia ; it is shaped like the larva of 

 Zinasjya, but has a sub-dorsal fleshy tooth on each side of segments 3 to 10, as also a 

 marginal tooth to each of these segments ; on the second segment there are two pro- 

 tuberances pointing forward; the 11th and 12th segments have each a lateral broad 

 tooth, and the last is produced into a double tooth ; the colour is of an almost uniform 

 dark rose. The pupa is of the usual form, stout and pink in colour, with black 

 blotchings." 



RAPALA REFULGENS. 

 Plate 718, figs. 3, ^, 3a, $, 3b, $. 



Bapala refulgens, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 376, pi. F, fig. IS, ^ . Swinhoe, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 307. 



Imago.— Male. Upperside, both wings black, but more or less overlaid with a 

 rich purple gloss of almost exactly the same shade as is found in the male of Lehera 

 eryx, Linnaeus. Foreioincj with the purple gloss confined to the basal half of the wing, 

 leaving the costa, apex, and outer margin all broadly black. Hindwing with the outer 

 margin narrowly black, the costa and abdominal margin broadly pale fuscous ; anal 

 lobe black, bearing outwardly a few turquoise-coloured scales, inwardly orange, 

 anterior to which again is a small white patch on the extreme margin. Cilia of 

 the forewing black, of the hindwing also black, but narrowly tipped with white. 

 Tail black, with a white tip. Underside, both wings uniform pale buff. Forewing with 

 two short dark lines (the outer one outwardly defined with whitish) at the end of the 

 discoidal cell ; a particularly even slightly recurved prominent darker discal band, not 

 quite reaching the costa, ending posteriorly on the sub-median nervure, made up of an 

 inner darker portion outwardly sharply defined on both sides by a fine white line ; an 

 inconspicuous darker marginal fascia. Hindwing with the discoidal markings as in the 

 forewing, but larger and more prominent ; a similar discal band, but strongly dislocated 

 in the middle, broken up in three portions, the posterior portion curved upwards to the 

 abdominal margin ; a marginal series of whitish lunules ; the anal lobe large, jet-black ; 

 above it a short line of orange defined on both sides by turquoise-coloured scales ; a 

 large round sub-anal jet-black spot in the first median interspace, broadly surrounded 

 with orange ; the space between it and the anal lobe sprinkled with turquoise-coloured 

 uud white scales ; a fine white marginal line, outwardly defined by an anteciliary 

 black thread. 



