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closed by an elongated spot, below which is a small triangular one ; two spots from the 

 costa below each other, of which the lower one is slightly oblique and touches both 

 the elongated spot and the upper one of the transverse band, which begins on tbe 

 upper discoidal nervure and extends beyond the submedian ; the second spot, rectangular 

 like the first, is shifted slightly outwards, the inner margin of the third is shifted 

 inwards, fourth spot outwards, fifth right inwards, not detached, and confluent with 

 the small sixth; submarginal row very obscure; the lower median nervure is slightly 

 elongated, so as to form a short tooth-like projection. 



?. Upperside: both wings bright blue; primaries with costa broadly, outer 

 margins more broadly, and apical area still more broadly blackish ; secondaries with 

 broadish borders all round, but decreasing towards the anal angle, the costa being the 

 broadest. Underside as in the male. 



I have one female from Tilin Yaw (N. Burma) before me in which the colour o\' the 

 upper surface is exactly of the same violet tint as in the male, not bright blue as usual. 

 In de Niceville's fine collection I find several specimens of this insect, and it is from 

 these that I am enabled to add Tenasserim and Tilin Yaw to its distribution, whilst 

 Haberhauer took a female in Bhamo, which is in Dr. Staudinger's collection now 

 before me. It is evidently a rare and local species, but is not difficult to separate 

 from its near neighbours by the pale violet colour, and also by the underside being- 

 very decidedly paler than any of its allies. It should be easily recognised from the 

 figure (Plate III. fig. 13, J ). 



ARHOPALA (EETA de Niceville. 

 Arhopala (Beta de Niceville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. vii. p. 333. n. 10, pi. II. tig. 17, ? 

 (1892). 



Hull. Burma. 



Expanse, 2 , 43 mm. 



I cannot help regarding this as merely an aberration of asopia Hew.; the whole 

 appearance of the specimen bears this out. In a difficult genus like this, where the 

 species are so closely related and are separable by such small characteristics, it would 

 be a wise plan never to describe a species from a unique example (as in this case) 

 unless it should happen to be a palpably new and strongly marked insect. 



Vkiiopala perimuta (Moore). 

 Amblypodia perimuta Moore; Horsfield and Moore, Cut. Lep. Mus. E.l.C. vol. i. p. 1.2. n. 61 

 (1857) ; Hewitson, Cat. Lycamidie B.M. p. 1:.'. a. 55, pi. vi. rigs. 05, GO, J (1862) ; id. 111. 

 Diurn. Lep., Suppl. p. 21. n. 62, pi. vii. suppl. tig. 01, S (1878). 

 Darasama perimuta Moore, Journ. A. S. B. vol. liii. pt. 2, p. 1:2 (1884) ; id. Journ. Linn. Sue 



Lond., Zool. vol. xi. p. 14 (1886). 

 Arhopala perimuta de Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. iii. p. 270 (1890). 



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