RHAPHICERA. 10' 



Genus RHAPHICERA. 



Lasiommata, pi, JDoubleday, in Dblday., Westw. 8f Hew. Gen. Di. 



Lep. 1851, p. 385. 

 Rhaphicera, Butler, A. M. N. H. (3) xix, 1867, p. 164. 



Type, R. satricus, Doubleday, from Sikhini. 



Range. The N.W. and E. Himalayas ; East Tibet. 



S 2 • Wings comparatively short and broad. Fore wing tri- 

 angular, costa arched ; termen convex ; dorsum straight ; apex 

 very slightly rounded ; cell about halt length of wing ; diseo- 

 cellulars oblique, in a line, upper and middle about equal ; vein 3 

 slightly bent upwards, 10 and 11 from before apex of cell, 

 12 inflated at base, subcostal and median normal. Hind wing 

 oval, costa slightly scalloped and perceptibly produced at apex of 

 vein 4 ; cell short, less than half length of wing ; discocellulars 

 very oblique, lower and middle subequal, upper much shorter ; 

 vein 3 from before apex of cell. Antennae not half leugth of 

 fore wing, slender, club long and gradual ; palpi with long porrect 

 hairs anteriorly ; eyes very hairy ; intermediate femora slightly 

 hairy posteriorly. 



Key to the forms of Rhaphicera. 



a. Hind wing posteriorly not irrorated with fuscous 



scales on upperside R. satricus, p. 107. 



b. Hind wing posteriorly strongly irrorated with 



fuscous scales on upperside R. moorei, p. 108. 



126. Rhaphicera satricus (PI. Ill, fig. 20), Doubleday (Lasiommata), 

 in Dblday., Westw. § Hew. Gen. Di. Lep. 1851, p. 387, pi. 64, 

 fig. 4 2', M. 8f de N. Butt. Ind. i, 3883, p. 175 ; Moore, Lep. 

 hid. ii, 1893-96, p. 3, pi. 95, figs. 2, 2 a, tf . 



<$ 2 • Upperside dark orange-yellow ; cilia fulvous. Eore wing : 

 dorsum and median vein bordered with black ; two bands, the 

 outer the broader, across the cell, an oblique, irregular, still 

 broader band beyond the cell continued as a transverse line 

 widened at the veins to vein 2, quadrate spots in interspaces 2 

 and 5, a short oblique bar from the costa to the latter spot, the 

 apex and termen clown to vein 3 broadly, thence narrowly to 

 tornus, black ; costa dusky black. Hind wing : the dorsum 

 broadly dusky black ; an oblique short bar from apex of cell 

 towards apex of wing, a postdiscal curved series of four large 

 spots and subterminal and terminal slender lines black. Under- 

 side paler, very similar. Pore wing : the black border to dorsum, 

 to termen and to apex replaced by an incomplete subterminal 

 and a complete terminal black line, the quadrate spots formed 

 into white-centred ocelli. Hind wing : the oblique black bar 

 absent ; a slender black line from costa curving round the apex 

 of the cell to vein 2, the black spots formed into white-centred 

 ocelli. Antennas black ; head, thorax and abdomen dusky brown. 



Exp. 6 2 64-68 mm. (2'55-2'7"). 



Hah. Sikhim ; Bhutan ; the Naga Hills. 



