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Arhopala kuhni (Rober). (Plate II. figs. 28 <5 , 29 2 .) 

 Amblypodia kuhni Rober, Iris, vol. i. p. .200, Taf. ix. figs. 5 & 8 (1887). 



Hab. Isle of Banka. 



Expanse, cJ 47, 2 38 mm. 



This species should at once be recognised by the female, which is peculiar in the 

 dark spots of the upperside closing the cell on both wings, which are specially 

 noticeable on the secondaries, and by the three tails. 



The male is of a violet shade, not purple above, and is easily recognisable from diardi 

 Hew. by the compact dark basal area and by having no purplish tinge below, and from 

 fulgida by a similar difference in colour, and by its decidedly larger size, whilst the 

 contour of its primaries differs from both, the outer margin of the apex being nearly 

 straight, with a slight excavation in the median area. 



Arhopala diardi (Hewitson). (Plate V. figs. 16 & 16 a.) 



Amblypodia diardi Hewitson, Cat. Lycsenidae B.M. p. 9. n. 43, pi. v. figs. 51 & 52 (if corrected in 

 MS. then figs. 41 & 42), <$ (186.2) ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 107. n. 2. 



Amblypodia ? diardi Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud., ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 549. n. 13 (1877). 



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



Panchala diardi Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 27.2. n. 1, pi. xxiii. fig. 14, ? (1885). 



Arhopala diardi de NiceVille, Butt. India, vol. iii. p. 256 (1890) ; de Niceville and Martin, J. A. 

 S. B. vol. lxiv. pt. 2, p. 466 (1895). 



Amblypodia capeta Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep., Suppl. p. 22, pi. viii. figs. 70 & 71 (1878). 



Amblypodia riardi Staudiuger, Iris, vol. ii. p. 130 (1889). 



Hal. India ; Assam ; Siarn ; Penang ; Malacca ; Singapore ; Sumatra ; Palawan ; 

 Bosobosa (Philippines) ; Mindanao ; Java ; Borneo ; Celebes. 



Expanse, 6 2 , 40-48 mm. 



I have before me a specimen of this insect from Palawan of a most beautiful rich blue, 

 almost as beautiful as anniella, but with a purple tinge in it; the underside, however, 

 agrees entirely with this species, it has but little of the red at the base. I have compared 

 Hewitson's capeta very carefully with this species and can find no valid points of 

 difference. 



It is very close to the next species, fulgida Hew., but is decidedly darker and more 

 violet in the tone of the underside, and has the very finest possible dark linear outer 

 margin and costa, whereas fulgida has both these margins decidedly wider though still 

 narrow. Its distribution is extensive, occurring from the Khasia Hills (Assam) to the 

 Philippine Islands on the east, to Sumatra on the west, into Java, where apparently 

 it is not uncommon, and probably in suitable places throughout Borneo, as I have 

 specimens from the south-east of the island and from the coast opposite Labuan. 



I have before me one extraordinary male from Lompa-Battan (Celebes), taken about 

 3000 feet high in March 1896, in which the underside is extremely dark ; whilst it 



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