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LEPIDGPTEBA INBICA. 
end of tlie cell, 11 emitted from the cell, about two-thirds from the base, 10 from 
three-fourths, 9 from the middle of 7, discocellulars nearly upright, very slightly 
outwardly oblique, the lower a little the longer, vein 3 emitted a short distance before 
the lower end of the cell, wing short, outer margin slightly convex, a broad tuft of hair 
on the middle of the hinder margin in the male, and in some species a patch of 
differently formed scales from those on the rest of the wing, on the upperside al¬ 
and beyond the end of the discoidal cell. Hind wing somewhat produced hindwards, anal 
angle lobed, a filamentous tail of moderate length at the end of vein 2 in both sexes, 
a glandular patch of scales placed above and against the sub-costal nervure in the 
male, extending a little distance along the base of the first sub-costal nervule, 
usually semicircular, variable both in shape and size, but not extending into the 
discoidal cell, discocellulars outwardly oblique, straight and of equal length, vein 3 
emitted just before the lower end of the cell; the genus appears to be strictly 
confined to the Indo-Malayan region. 
Type, Theda varuna, Horsfield. 
RAPALA MELAMPUS. 
Plate 712, figs. 4, $, 4a, ? , 4b, $ . 
Papilio melampus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 142, pi. 362, figs. G-, H, £ (1781). 
Baspa melampus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 250. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, 
p. 48. Doherty, id. 1886, p. 126. Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 135, and 1886, p. 429. 
Beudorix melampus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 147. 
Bapala ( Baspa ) melampus, Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 359. 
Ba-pala melampus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 467 (1890); id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 
1890, p. 386. Betham, id. 1891, p. 183. Watson, id. p. 50. Mackinnon and de Niceville, 
id. 1898, p. 389. Nurse, id. 1899, p. 512. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 49. 
de Rhe-Philipe, id. 1905, p. 720. 
Theda sorya, Kollar, Hugel’s Kaschmir, iv. (2), p. 414, pi. 5, figs. 1, 2, (1848). 
Imago. —Male. Upperside scarlet. Forewing with the costal and outer marginal 
bands black, of moderate width, gradually increasing from the base to the apex, then 
gradually narrowing on the outer margin to the hinder angle, veins finely black. 
Hindwing with the costal space pale dusky, outer marginal line finely black, anal lobe 
black, with some ochreous scales above on the inner side and a few scattered metallic 
greenish scales on the outer side ; tail black, tipped with white. Cilia black with 
greyish white tips. Underside pale purplish-brown, markings a little darker than the 
ground colour with whitish edges. Forewing with the hinder marginal space pale, a 
double dark line at the end of the cell, one on each side of the discocellulars, a narrow 
nearly straight discal line of conjoined lunular marks from near the costa to the sub¬ 
median vein, the third from the costa a very little outwards, indications of a series of 
