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LEPIBOPTERA INPICA. 
tips up to the tail, which is black, tipped with white, the rest of the cilia is brown, with 
pale tips. Underside as in the male, the ground colour generally duller, the sub-basal 
dark spot below the costa of the hindwing absent. 
Expanse of wings, $ $ l x 5 o to 1 r 8 x inches. 
Dry-season Brood (Figs. 3c, 3d, $). 
Male. Upperside smoky-red, very dark and dull in colour, the red colour merging 
into the black borders which are about the same as in the wet-season brood. Under¬ 
side paler and dusky in colour, the spot in the middle of the cell of the fore wing very 
small, the spot on the glandular patch in the hindwing obsolete. 
Female. Upperside like the male of the other form. Underside like its own male, 
of the same pale dusky ochreous-brown colour. 
Expanse of wings, £ $ to 1 T 5 X inches. 
Habitat. —Sikkim, Sylhet, Cachar, Orissa, Burma. 
Distribution. —The type is labelled East India, Elwes records it from the Karen 
Hills, Watson from Chin Lushai and the Chin Hills, we have received many examples 
from Sylhet, Sikkim and the Khasia Hills, de Niceville records it also from Cachar, 
Orissa and Burma. 
RAP ALA NISSA. 
Plate 715, figs. 1, $, la, $>, lb, $ (Wet-season Brood), 1c, <£, Id, $ (Dry-season Brood). 
Thecla nissa, Kollar, Hugel’s Kaschmir, iv. (2), p. 412, pi. 4, figs. 3, 4 (1848). 
Amblypodia nissa, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 46 (1857). 
Deudorix nissa, var. (part), Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep. p. 23, pi. 10, figs. 42, 43, $ (nec 44), (1863). 
Bidaspa nissa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 250. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 
p. 126. 
Rapala nissa, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 370. de Mceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 463 (1890). 
Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 531. Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 413, pi. 29, figs. 
12, $, 15, $ (1893). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 643. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 
p. 307. Mackinnon and de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 389. 
Baspa nissa, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 126. 
Rapala subpurpurea, Leech, Entom. xxiii. p. 42 (1890). 
Wet -season Brood (Figs. 1, la, lb, 
Imago. —Male. Upperside shining purplish-brown, with a steel gloss in certain 
lights. Forewing with the costal and outer marginal borders purplish-black, with the 
same steel gloss on them, the inner colour merging into the outer ; a small orange 
patch beyond the cell. Hindwing with the costal margin pale, the abdominal fold 
fuscous, anal lobe black, with an orange spot in it; tail black, tipped with white ; 
terminal line black. Cilia black, with pale tips. Underside ochreous-brown, varying 
