232 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



8, pi. 9, fig. 2. Distant, Eliop. Malay, p. 45, fig. 15, c? (1882). HahUat. Malay 

 Peninsula. 



Genus RANGBIA. 



Lethe {group I, part), Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 138 (1883). Elwes, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 308. 



Imago. — Male. Forewing short, subtriangular ; costa sliglitly arched, apex 

 obtusely pointed, exterior margin slightly oblique, even ; costal vein perceptibly 

 swollen, median and submedian scarcely swollen ; cell extending to fully half the wing, 

 broad ; first and second subcostal branches emitted before end of the cell ; discocel- 

 lulars outwardly-oblique, radials from the angles near upper end ; middle median 

 branch emitted at one-fourth and lower branch at one-half before end of the cell ; 

 submedian straight ; a long narroio glandular patch of lustreless scales extending along 

 both sides of the middle of the submedian vein. Hindwing short, broad, bluntly ovate ; 

 costal margin rather long, exterior margin slightly scalloped and angular in the 

 middle ; anal angle rounded ; cell rather long and broad ; first subcostal branch emitted 

 at one-fourth before end of the cell ; discocellulars outwardly- oblique, radial from 

 the middle ; the middle median emitted at a short distance before end of the cell ; a 

 conspicuous tuft of long hairs overlapping a glandular patch of lustreless scales at lase 

 of the middle median veinlet. Body short ; thorax robust, hairy ; palpi porrect, 

 slender, compressed, hairy in front ; legs moderately short, stout ; antennae rather 

 short, with a moderately thickened club ; eyes hairy. 



Type. — R. Scanda. 



RANGBIA SCANDA (Plate 75, fig. 4, 4a, b, ^ ? ). 



Bebis Scanda, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy. i. p. 218 (1857), c?- 



Lethe Scanda, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 117 (1868). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 139 (1883). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 308. Staudinger, Exot. 



Schmett. p. 221, pi. 78, cJ. 

 Debis Nada, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 218 (1857), ? . 

 Zophoessa Dirphia,* Druce, Cistula Ent. i. p. 357 (1875), ?. Marshall and de MceviUe, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 168 (1883), ? . 



Imago, — Male. Upperside purpurescent blue-black, the outer borders glossy 

 greyish-blue, which latter tint is most strongly defined on the forewing, where it 

 forms a definite sinuous-bordered fascia, the fascia being palest at its upper end ; 

 abdominal margin purpurescent-brown ; cilia white, alternated on the hindwing pos- 

 teriorly with brown ; Forewing with a long narrow glandular patch of lustreless 

 scales extending along both sides of the middle of the submedian vein. Hindwing 

 with a very indistinct small subapical and two lower median pale-bordered black 



* Verified by actual comparison with the type specimen, now in the collection of Mr. F. D. Godman. 



