DEUDOPlIXINJE. 
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Lushai and tlie Chin Hills, Manders from the Shan States, de Melville from Sikkim 
and Bhutan, and Horsfield and Moore from Java, Distant from the Malay Peninsula. 
This species much resembles B. melampus, but can easily be recognised by its scarlet-red 
anal lobe, the anal lobe of melampus being black. 
RAP ALA SUFFUSA. 
Plate 713, figs. 2, <£, 2a, 9,2b, $. 
Deudorix suffusa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 834, pi. 52, fig. 8, g. 
Vadebra suffusa , Moore, l.c. 1883, p. 528. 
jRapala suffusa , de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 466 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 
p. 643. H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 682. 
Imago. —Male. Upperside dull coppery-red. Forewing with broad costal and 
outer marginal black borders of almost even width, the black colour filling the basal 
two-thirds of the cell, the inner margin of the outer marginal band uneven, the median 
vein and its branches black, a little blackish suffusion on the hinder margin. Hindwing 
with the costa pale, the basal and abdominal areas suffused with blackish, the 
abdominal fold pale, outer marginal line black ; tail black, tipped with white; anal 
lobe with a black spot ringed with pale bluish-white, a pale yellowish spot on its inner 
side. Cilia grey. Underside dull chrome-yellow. Forewing with a pale double line 
at the end of the cell, one on each side of the discocellulars, often obsolete, a discal 
narrow grey lunular line, with outer pale edge, and slightly outwardly curved, very 
indistinct. Hindwing with a similar discal line, its lower end curving in two angles on 
to the abdominal margin one-fourth from the anal angle, where its white edging is 
more conspicuous and somewhat silvery; anal lobe black, ringed with white, with a 
short silvery line running from above it on to the abdominal margin, parallel with the 
silvery edging of the discal line ; a smaller black spot in the first interspace, a few 
black and white scales in the interspace between them; both wings with a fine brown 
marginal line, which becomes black, with a white inner thread towards the anal angle. 
Antennae black, ringed with white ; club with a red tip ; frons chrome-yellow; eyes 
ringed with white; head and thorax brown above with greenish hairs; abdomen 
reddish-brown above, chrome-yellow beneath. 
Female. Upperside purple-brown, shading into blackish on the borders, outer 
marginal line on both wings black; tail black, tipped with white; anal lobe with a 
black spot, ringed with bluish-grey, with a small yellow spot on it. Cilia bluish-grey, 
with black tips from the tail to the lobe. Underside as in the male, the ground colour 
usually paler, consequently the markings more distinct. 
Expanse of wings, J 1^, $ 1 t 6 q- to 1 t 7 q inches. 
Habitat.— Burma, Sylhet, Assam. 
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