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2 . Upperside : both wings warm brown ; primaries tinged with a shade of purple, 

 with a good-sized bright violet patch up to half the median area ; cell closed by a dark 

 spot, this patch being smaller in the secondaries. I have before me one specimen from 

 Banka in which the shade is as deep in tone as in the male, but it is more violet in hue. 



This species is very strikingly marked on its underside and should be recognised at 

 once ; it is perhaps nearest to abseus Hew., but can be very easily separated by its very 

 much larger size, by the unusually broad borders of the male and the very dark blue 

 of the upperside, whilst on the underside the spots are very much more distinct and 

 are markedly outlined with whitish, whereas abseus is more uniform in tone and darkly 

 clouded. The specimen figured is a female in my own collection ; it would have been 

 better had I figured the male, which is much more distinct, but I had returned the male 

 specimens to Herr Ribbe before I was ready to figure it. 



Aehopala abseus (Hewitson). 

 Amblypodia abseus Hewitson, Cat. Lycsenidre B.M. p. 9. u. 40, pi. v. figs. 41 & 42 (if corrected iu 

 MS., then figs. 51 &52), ? (1862) ; id. 111. Diura. Lep., Lye. p. 10. n. 44(1863) ; Druce, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Loud. 1873, p. 353. n. 6. 

 Satadra abseus Moore, Journ. A. S. B. vol. liii. pt. 2, p. 41 (1884). 

 Arhopala abseus de Niceville, Butt. India, vol. iii. p. 242. 



Arhopala amphea Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. p. 234, tab. xxix. fig. 19 (1865) ; Druce, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Loud. 1895, p. 589; de Niceville aud Martin, J. A. S. B. vol. lxiv. pt. 2, p. 465 (1895). 



Hub. Sylhet ; Sikkim ; Burma; Mergui ; Singapore; Sumatra; Borneo. 



Expanse, s 2 , 36-41 mm. 



d . Blue areas distinctly fractured beyond the lower median nervule, where the 

 fascia becomes very narrow ; below the upper discoidal nervule is a dark patch extending 

 to the margin, submarginal row obscured. A black spot at the anal angle and between 

 the second and lower median nervules, over and between which are some greenish sub- 

 metallic scales more or less scattered, margined above with a dark dash up to the 

 abdominal margin. The secondaries are glossy and the spots much darker than in the 

 primaries. 



2 . Exactly like the male, except that the blue is paler and more restricted. 



All the male specimens from Borneo that I have seen are quite glossy purple. The 

 species is very different from any others except irregularis and should be recognised 

 without difficulty. 



Arhopala amphea Felder. 

 Hab. Philippines. 

 Expanse, 6 38-45, 2 33-44 mm. 



This is, without doubt, a local race of abseus, being merely of a darker blue above, 

 with the borders not so broad. 



