128 ME. G. T. BETHUNE-BAKEK : A BEVISION OF THE 



Arhopala anamuta Semper. (Plate III. fig. 6, d .) 

 Arhopala anamuta Semper, Schmett. Philip. Ins. Bd. v. p. 203. 



Hab. Mindanao. 



Expanse, d , 44-48 mm. 



d . Upperside : both wings dull brownish purple, looking in certain lights quite 

 brown ; primaries with narrow black posterior margins and a narrower costa ; 

 secondaries with a narrow dark posterior margin and a broad costa ; abdominal fold 

 brown. Underside : both wings warm brown, with darker spots palely encircled. 

 Primaries with discal spots ; between the second and third is often present on the 

 discoidal nervure another minute spot, and below these two the usual spots are present 

 in the pale internal area ; transverse fascia composed of a curved row of six quite 

 confluent spots ending on the lower median nervule, below which is a seventh spot 

 shifted inwards ; submarginal row rather indistinct, extreme margin finely dark. 

 Secondaries with a half-spot at the extreme base of the costa ; four basal spots 

 inclined inwards, the third being projected outwards, followed by three larger spots ; 

 cell closed by a subquadrate spot, below which is a third triangular one connecting it 

 with the lowest of the previous three ; transverse chain-band composed of four pairs 

 of confluent spots, the lower of the first pair has its outer margin shifted outwards, 

 the second pair is shifted further outwards, the third pair inwards, the fourth 

 pair consists of the angular seventh shifted inwards and the long eighth spot ; 

 submarginal row fairly distinct; a black spot is at the anal angle and between 

 the second and lower median nervule, the space between which is filled with metallic- 

 green scales, with which the spots themselves are surmounted ; extreme margin finely 

 dark. No tail, but the lower median nervule is elongated into a very short tooth-like 

 projection, decidedly shorter than in dajagaka. 



This species is a close ally of dajagaka Stgr., but is easily distinguished by the 

 uniformly broad and regular transverse band on the underside of the primaries. 1 have 

 also a small-sized specimen of a much brighter blue, with no brown shading at all. 



Arhopala allata (Staudinger). (Plate III. fig. 7, d .) 



Amblypodia allata Stgr. Iris, vol. ii. p. 125, Taf. ii. fig. 1 (1889). 

 Arhopala allata Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1895, p. 590. 



Rob. Palawan, Mindanao, and Mindoro ; Labuan. 



Expanse, d 41-45, $ 42-44 mm. 



d . Upperside : both wings very dark, dull, almost brownish violet, in some lights 

 looking almost brown ; primaries with broad blackish posterior margins and narrow 

 costa ; secondaries with very broad dark brown margins all round ; tail tipped with 



