AMBLYPODIA GROUP OF THE LYGfiNID-ffi. 99 



which Mr. Doherty refers. The figure given by Mr. Distant, in his work ' Rhopalocera 

 Malayana ' (/. <?.), has nothing whatever to do with this species, and is quite distinct 

 from it. The genitalia have scimitar-shaped hooks on the tegumen, the clasps are 

 very narrow, with the extremity bluntly pointed; the penis is very small. 



Arhopala brahjia Bethune-Baker. (Plate II. fig. 14, <3 .) 

 Arhopalu brahma Bethune-Baker, Ent. Mo. Mag-, vol. xxxiii. p. 203 (1897). 



Hab. Perak. 



Expanse, 6 42, 2 45 mm. 



This species can be recognised from hypomuta Hew. by its larger size and purpler 

 colour, also by the obsoletion of the under-surface pattern, and by the lack of metallic 

 scales at the anal angle below. 



ARHorALA HYPO.MrTA (Hewitson). (Plate II. fig. 1-3, d ■) 

 Amblypodia hypomuta Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B.M. p. 11, pi. vi. figs. 63 & 64, $ (1862) : id. 111. Diuru. 

 Lep., Lye. p. 12, pi. li. fig. 13 (1863); Druce, P. Z. S. Loud. 1873, p. 354; Butler, Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. Loud., ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 549 (1877). 

 Arhopala hypomuta de Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. iii. p. 276 (1890). 



/A/A. India ; Borneo ; Penang ; Malacca. 



Expanse, 6 & 2 . about 42 mm. 



6 . Upperside : both wings bright blue, with very fine linear black margins, the 

 costa of the secondaries being broadish black, the abdominal fold greyish. Underside : 

 both wings warm ochreous brown, with darker spots palely encircled. Primaries with 

 three increasing oval cell-spots, and a spot below the third in the lower median 

 angle ; below the second is a trace of some darker shading ; transverse band composed 

 of six spots, the first very small on the costa, second and third shifted very slightly 

 inwards, fourth well out, fifth and sixth inwards, but inclined obliquely outwards 

 (Hewitson being thus right in saying " the last spot of this fascia projects outwardly ") ; 

 submarginal row fairly distinct, submedian area slightly paler. Secondaries with four 

 basal spots below each other, followed by three larger ones ; cell closed by a subquadrate 

 spot, below which is a small one in the lower median angle, and above it a small 

 round one shifted inwards ; transverse band composed of eight spots, the second 

 placed obliquely and shifted right outwards, third shifted also well outwards, fourth 

 out again, fifth inwards, sixth outwards, seventh angular, confluent with the eighth 

 long spot shifted right inwards ; this band is distinctly spotted, though the spots are 

 not completely encircled with a pale edging ; submarginal band distinct, marginal band 

 obscure ; a black spot at the anal angle edged above by brilliant pale blue metallic 

 scales, which also cover the two black spots preceding it. 



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