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sub-marginal marks. Hindwing with a dark double line at the end of the cell, a diseal 
band of conjoined lunular marks as in the fore wing, the latter straight from the costa 
to vein 2, then curving inwards in two angles to the abdominal margin one-third above 
the anal angle, a sub-terminal series of indistinct lunular marks, anal lobe black, with 
some pale whitish-grey scales above it and between it and a black spot in the first 
interspace; terminal line of both wings dark brown, with a white thread on its inner 
side in the hindwing. Antennae black, ringed with white, club with a dull red tip, and 
a white streak beneath ; frons grey, with a brown median stripe ; eyes ringed with 
white ; head and body brown above, with red hairs, pale purplish-brown beneath, the 
abdomen ochreous-grey. 
Female. Upperside duller in colour than the male, often more or less brick-red. 
Forewing with the marginal bands dark brown or blackish-brown. Ilindwing 
still duller in colour, generally suffused with pale brown. Underside as in the 
male. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ ly^ to 1 T % inches. 
Larva, feeds on the flowers of Ougeinea dalbergeoides and Zyziplius rugosus. it 
is exactly similar to that of R. schistacea, Moore, but the colour is pure white, changing 
to rose before turning into a pupa. 
Pupa, similar to that of R. schistacea. 
Habitat.— India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Nias, Sumatra. 
Distribution. —The type came from the Coromandel coast; we took a good many 
specimens at Mhow, Bombay and Poona ; Hampson records it from the Nilgiris, Betham 
from the Central Provinces, Watson from Chin Lushai, Mackinnon and de Niceville 
from Mussuri, Nurse from Kutch, Aitken and Comber from Matheran, de Bhe-Philipe 
from Lucknow, de Niceville from Sikkim, Nias and Sumatra. 
RAPALA JARBAS. 
Plate 713, figs. 1, $, la, $, lb, £, lc, larva and pupa, 
Papilio iarbas, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii p. 68 (1787). 
Hesperia jarbas, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (1), p. 276 (1793). 
Papilio jarbas, Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 40, fig. 3, $ (1800). 
Polyommatus jarbas, Godart, Enc. Metk ix. p. 646 (1823). 
Thecla jarbas , Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 93, pi. 4, fig. 2, larva ; 2a, pupa, 2b-e, structure of 
imago (1829). 
Nadisepa jarbas, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 249 ; id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 43. 
Beudorix jarbas, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 278, pi. 24, fig. 15, $ ; pi. 20, fig. 26, $ (1885), 
Mapala jarbas, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 468 (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, 
p. 531. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 50, and 1897, p. 668. Elwes, Proc. Zool, 
Soc. 1892, p. 643. 
