ME. G. T. BETIIUNE-BAKER : A REVISION OE THE 



I have a female before me from New Britain, in which the blue is less silvery, but 

 deeper and richer in tone, ami the underside is also rather darker. This species is near 

 philander Feld., but is smaller and is paler in colour above; whilst beneath it is more 

 uniform in tone, and the transverse bands are more irregular. The female is also 

 much paler and silvery in its blue. 



Var. tindali Kibbc, Iris, Bd. xii. p. 251 (1899). 



This variety appears to be merely a darker form of Druce's species. 



Arhopala meander Boisduval. (Plate IV. figs. 8 & 8 a.) 

 Arhopala meander Boisduval, Voy. ' Astrolabe/ Ent. p. 76 (1832). 

 Amblypodia meander Hewitson, Cat. LycaBnidje B.M. p. 4, pi. ii. figs. 4, 5, & G (1862) ; id. 111. 



Diurn. Lep., Lye p. 4. n. 6 (1869). 

 Arhopala meander Boisduval, Miskiu, Annals Queensland Mus. no. 1, p. 70 (1891). 

 Arhopala meander Boisd., Bethune-Baker & Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1896, p. 658. 

 Arhopala adherbal Grose-Smith, llliop. Exot. vol. iii. p. 10, pi. xxv. fig. 3 (1902). 

 Arhopala appianus Grose-Smith, Rhop. Exot. vol. iii. p. 11, pi. xxv. fig. 4 (1902). 



Hub. Aru ; New Guinea; Waigeoe ; Halmaheira; New Britain; New Zealand 

 (Mioko); Queensland and South-east Borneo; Woodlark and Fergusson Islands; 

 Duke of York Island. 



Expanse, 6 & S , 4 7-09 mm. 



,'. Upperside: both wings violaceous blue; primaries with narrow black costal 

 margin and rather broader posterior margin ; secondaries with broad costal and narrow 

 i oi margin; abdominal fold brown. Tail black, tipped with white. Underside: 

 both wings pinkish lilac-brown, all the spots cinnamon-brown, margined with pinkish 

 -rev. Primaries : internal area up to about the second median nervule paler and not 

 tinged with pink; three discal spots increasing in size, and the usual two below the 

 tell; transverse band continuous, inclined outwards as it nears the anal angle; this 

 generally reaches the submedian nervure, but the last two spots are shifted much 

 inwards; an indistinct submarginal shading. Secondaries with lour small basal spots 

 below one another, the bottom one shifted inwards beyond the internal nervure, beyond 

 which are three larger ones corresponding in position to the upper three ; cell closed 

 by a long quadrate spot, below which and touching is another small spot closing the 

 of the space between the second and lower median nervures ; transverse chain- 

 band not absolutely broken, but consisting of two spots above the upper discal nervure, 

 and two spots shifted outwards below it, one between the upper and second median 

 nervure shifted slightly inwards, the next spot is outwards, and that between the 

 submedian nervure and the lower median nervule is moved inwards and forms an acute 

 angle on its interior edge, thus joining the long spot reaching the internal nervure ; 

 larginal shading darker, with a faint pale outward border; small spot at anal 



