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LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 
side, with a bluish-white cilia, tipped with black, which is continued to vein 3, the rest 
of the cilia dark grey ; tail black, tipped with white. Underside chocolate-brown with 
a slight purple tint; markings darker brown.' Forewing with two lines across the end 
of the cell, a narrow band outwardly edged with whitish, slightly outwardly curved, from 
near the costa to near the hinder margin. Hindwing with a bar at the end of the cell, 
prominently edged with white on each side and with a pale line through it; a discal band 
of seven conjoined squarish spots, edged with white on both sides, passing close to the 
discoidal bar, the third and fourth outwards, the fifth inwards, the seventh angular, 
running in on to the abdominal margin one-third above the anal angle, a marginal series 
of white spots decreasing in size upwards and becoming obsolete above the middle of 
the wing ; anal lobe black, with a small white smear above it containing a short black 
line, with blue scaling above it and white scaling below it; a large black spot in the 
first interspace, almost obliterating the white marginal spot, capped with orange, a 
small brown spot in each of the white marginal spots in the next two upper interspaces, 
a black smear, containing some pale blue scales almost obliterating the white spot 
in the interspace between the large black spot and the anal lobe. Antennae black, 
ringed with white ; frons ochreous, with a brown medial stripe ; head and body 
above and below concolorous with the wings, abdomen ochreous beneath. 
Female. Upperside brown, shading darker towards the margins. Hindwing with 
the costal space and abdominal fold pale, anal lobe and tail as in the male. Underside 
with the ground colour paler and of a greyish tint, markings similarly disposed, but 
the bands are broader and the sub-terminal black spot in the first interspace on the 
hindwing is ringed with orange. 
Expanse of wings, £ 1^, 1 t 3 q- inches. 
Habitat. —Nikobar Islands. 
Our description and figures are from a pair from Kamorta given to us by the late 
Colonel Bingham. 
RAPALA SPHINX. 
Plate 715, figs. 3, 3a, J , 3b, $. 
Papilio sphinx, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 520 (1775). 
Deudorix sphinx , Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 180 (1869). 
Bapala sphinx , H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 621. 
Bapala rhoecus, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1895, p. 319, pi. P, fig. 47, $, and 1896, 
p. 182, pi. T, fig. 40, 9 • 
Imago.— Male. Upperside dark bright blue, with a beautiful brilliant sheen in 
certain lights. Forewing with the costa and outer marginal bands black, of 
moderate width. Hind wing with the costal and outer marginal bands also black, but 
usually a little narrower ; abdominal fold blackish ; anal lobe black with some ochreous 
scales and with a white cilia, tipped with black which extends to the tail, which is 
