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LEP1D0PTEBA IN DIG A. 
8, pi. 9, fig. 2. Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 45, fig. 15 3 cT (1882). Habitat. Malay 
Peninsula. 
Genus RANGBIA. 
Lethe ( group I, part), Marshall and de Nicevillo, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 138 (1883). Elwes, Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 308. 
Imago. —Male. Forewing short, subtriangular; costa slightly 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 narrow glandular patch of lustreless scales extending along 
both sides of the middle of the submedian vein. Hindioing 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 base 
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, $ ? ). 
Debis Scanda , Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus, E. I. Compy. i. p. 218 (1857), S. 
Lethe Scanda , Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 117 (1868). Marshall and de Hieeville, Butt, of 
India, etc. i. p. 139 (1883). Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond. 1888, p. 308. Staudinger, Exot. 
Schmett, p. 221, pi. 78, S • 
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 Mceville, 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. 
