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a submarginal band of rather thick, lunular marks and, between them, a band 

 of paler marks ; the lower portion of the wing pale in colom*. Hind wing with 

 the markings more indistinct ; fom" subbasal spots, followed by three similar 

 spots ; a lunular mark at the end of the cell with two other Imiular marks a 

 little inwards, connected Avith its lower end ; an irregular, discal band of eight 

 spots, the first two from the costa and the seventh shifted a little inside the 

 others , the eighth being a round spot a little more inwards on the abdominal 

 margin ; the terminal line and subterminal series as in the fore wing ; anal lobe 

 small, containing a black spot, capped narrowly with white and some whitish 

 and metallic blue scales at the ends of the three lowest interspaces ; indications 

 of an anteciliary, whitish line on both wings, plainest on the hind wing. 

 Female. Upperside : Fore wing with the lilac colour brighter ; the costal 

 blackish-brown border very broad ; a black spot at the end of the cell 

 merged in it, the outer margin broadly suffused with blackish-brown ; leaving 

 the discal, medial and submedial portions lilac-blue. Hind wing : miiformly 

 brown, but often with a lilac tint. Underside : as in the male. Antennse black ; 

 palpi black above, white beneath ; head and body concolorous Avith the 

 wings. Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 



Larva, pupa. — Unknown. 



Habits. — De Niceville says : " A. atrax shares with amayites, Hewit- 

 son, the peculiarity of being a plains insect, with its headquarters in 

 Orissa and Chota Nagpur, where at times it is said to swarm." Swin- 

 hoe says its habitat is " India, Burma. Recorded from Orissa, Chota 

 Nagpur, Dehra Dun, Bholaghat in the Malda District, Sikkim, 

 Jalpaiguri, Calcutta, lower slopes of the Nilgiris, Bernardmyo, 

 Central Provinces, Chin Lushai and Chin Hills, Masoori, Shan States, 

 Kumaon, Pachmarhi, Simla and Ranchi." He adds " it has hitherto 

 passed as A. atrax, Hewitson in Indian collections. Hewitson describes 

 two species as male and female, he figured the male only ; this latter, 

 a commoner form, Bethune-Baker has described as Hcivitsoni ; we 

 have examples of both sexes, it is no doubt quite distinct from Hewit- 

 son's atrax of which there are examples of both sexes from Burma 

 in the British Museum." 



This ends the Subfamily Arhopalince.* It is characterized by the following : — 

 legs normal (separating it from Oerydinoe which, however, do not concern these 

 papers), fore wing with veins 5, 6 close to each other at the base dividing it off 

 from Lycenince, Theclince, Curetince and Liphyrince), iore wing with vein 11, 

 not anastomosed with vein 12 (differentiating it from Poritiince in which veins 

 11, 12 are anastomosed). This last differentiation, depending upon a vein- 

 character which is not easy to see as aU the costal veins are so close together, 

 might cause trouble if the Poritiince were of any interest here : which they are 

 not, as none occur in the Plains or in Bombay. None of them extend south of 



*NoTE :— On page 657, Vol. XXIV, Part 4 of this Journal B. N. H. S., the 

 Subfamily Arhopalince should contain only the following genera : — 

 Thaduka, Amblipodia, 

 Mahathala, Surendra, 

 Iraota, Arhopala, 



All the rest being Tkeclince : — 

 Zeizus, Tajuria, 



Creon, Chliaria, 



Pratapa, Zeltus, 



