414 LYC-iXlD.E. 
The typical form of this species occurs iu the Proviuce of Kwei-chow, and 
at Wa-ssu-kow in Western China, and Chang-yang in Central China ; but the 
form with the orange spot or patch on primaries (Hewitson, fig. 42) has (5nly 
been received from Wa-shau, Wa-ssu-kow, and Chang-yang. Both forms 
were found in June and Jidy at about 5000 feet elevation. 
According to de Niceville, B. nissa is found in Sikkim in March, April, 
May, August, September, and October — " some specimens of both sexes 
showing no trace of the discal orange spot on the upperside of fore wing, 
others having it quite small, while others again have it very large." 
Distribution. Himalayas, Assam, Sumatra, Western and Central China. 
Eapala repercussa. (Plate xxix. figs, lo d , 13 ? .) 
Rcqjctla repercussa. Leech, Entomologist, x.\iii. p. 42 (1890). 
Male. Fuliginous brown, with strong purple reflections ; fringes slight]}- paler ; tail of secondaries 
black, tipped with white ; lobe at anal angle marked with blue and pale orange. Under 
surface olivaceous brown ; primaries have a faint pale linear discoidal spot and central 
transverse line, the latter with an interior edging of fuscous : submarginal line indicated only 
towards inner margin : secondaries have a dark discoidal bar outlined with white ; a waved 
white line broadly bordered interiorly with fuscous, and preceded by a thin wavy white line, 
forming a compound band extending only to tho submedian norvure, is intersected by the 
nervules, and exhibits a tendency to become broken up into spots ; at its termination are two 
short parallel white lines running to abdominal margin j submarginal line whitish, wavy ; a 
large velvety-black spot encircled with orange in the second median interspace ; the lobe at 
anal angle is black, with white fringe, above it is a blue spot, and two small patches, one 
orange and the other blue separated by a black streak ; fringes of abdominal margin white. 
Female. Eather browner, and the purple reflection is less intense. 
Expanse 40 millim. 
Allied to Bnpala (Deudorix) maiiea, Hew. IU. D. L. p. 23, pi. ix. tigs. 40, 41 
(1863). 
In some examples of the male there is a distinct reddish-orange cloud just 
beyond the discoidal cell on primaries ; this is faintly indicated in other males 
and one female specimen. 
Occurs in July at Chang-yang and Ichang, Central China, and at Omei- 
shan in Western China. 
Rapala inicans. (Plate xxvil. fig. 13, var.) 
Thecla inicans, Bremer and Grey, Sclimett. N. China's, p. 9 (1853) ; Meuetries, Cat. 
Mus. Petr. pt. i. pi. iv. fig. 4 (1855). 
Thecla carulea, Bremer aud Grey, tom. cit. p. 8 ; Menetries, tom. cit. pi. iv. fig. 3. 
