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in width and with its end rounded. Hindwing with nearly the whole wing black, the 
fulvous-red area being confined to a band composed of red streaks divided thickly by 
the veins which fill up the first and second interspaces and the ends of the third, fourth 
and fifth; the abdominal fold pale as usual, the anal lobe black, crowned with red, with 
white cilia tipped with black, which is continued to the tail, which is black, tipped with 
white, and there is a white spot on the abdominal margin just above the lobe, marginal 
line black. Cilia grey. Underside dark purplish-grey. Forewing with a pale brown 
line at the end of the cell, with inner white edging, often obsolete, a discal, slightly 
outwardly curved, pale brown thin line outwardly white-edged. Hindwing with similar 
discoidal and discal lines, the latter sinuous hindwards, curving in the usual double 
angle to the abdominal margin, its outer white edging on the lower part rather 
prominent; anal lobe black ; a black spot in the first interspace, the space between 
them black with some bluish-white scales ; both wings with brown terminal line which 
becomes deep black on the lower half of the hinclwing, with a prominent white inner 
thread. 
Female. Upperside brown, with a faint pinkish-purplish tint, darkening towards 
the margins. Forewing without markings. Hindwing with the costal space and 
abdominal fold pale; tail black, tipped with white; anal lobe with a black spot, 
crowned with pale orange; both wings with terminal line black. Cilia grey, white 
tipped with black on the anal lobe and to the tail. Underside as in the male. 
Expanse of wings, £ lyo - * ? 1-fw inches. 
Habitat. —Andaman and Nikobar Islands. 
Distribution. —Distributed apparently throughout the islands ; our description is 
from two males and a female in our collection from Port Blair: de Niceville puts this 
form as a synonym to R. xenophon , Fabricius, but it appears to us to be a very distinct 
species. 
RAPALA XENOPHON. 
Plate 714, figs. 2, $, 2a, J , 2b, $, 2c, larva and pupa. 
Hesperia xenophon, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (1), p. 272 (1793). 
Polyommatus xenophon, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 640 (1823). 
Thecla xenophon, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. i. p. 94 (1829). 
Bipsas xenophon, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. p. 31, pi. 1, figs. 3, larva, 3a, pupa 
(1867). 
Beudorix xenophon, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep. p. 21, $ (1869). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 465, 
pi. 44, figs. 1, 2, ? (1886). 
Nadisepa xenophon, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1885, p. 43. 
Bapala xenophon, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 470 (1890); id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 
1890, p. 297. H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 623. 
Beudorix dieneces, Hewitson ($ only), Ill. Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 31; pi. Suppl. 5a, figs. 65, 67, male, 
nec 66, female (1878). de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 48. 
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