218 [September, 



unlike anything known, slunild be placed in the suhfasciata, Moore, 

 group, but its green colour will separate it from any of its neigh- 

 bours. The green is most peculiar, changing somewhat at all angles 

 of light ; in a very strong light the wing becomes suffused with rich 

 purple. 



The species occurs in March on the tipper Aroa river in British 

 New Guinea. 



Edgbaston : August, 1903. 



A NEW SPECIES OP ARHOPALA FROM SINGAPORE. 

 BY O. T. BKTHUNE-B AKEB, F.L.S. 



Arhopala malayana, sp. nor. 



(? . Both wings pale sublustrous mauvy-bluo, quite dull and rather ilark in 

 iome lights, bright and lustrous in others, with a linear black marginal line all 

 round, except the costa of the secondaries, which is somewhat broadly brown, as 

 also is the abdominal fold. Tail brown tipped with white, on the primaries at the 

 lower end of the cell is a large roundish patch of differently placed scales, quite 

 conspicuous, not altering tlie colour but making i( denser. Under-side : both wings 

 pale olive-brown, with slightly darker spots palely edged. Primaries with three 

 increasing cell spots, below the third another in the angle of veins two and three. 

 Transverse catenulated fascia distinctly fractured below the fourth spot, the fascia 

 is composed of six spots, the first four nearly confluent (the first spot on the costa 

 being very obscure and small) and very oblique, the fifth and sixth below each other 

 likewise oblique, but shifted right inwards and quite detached, submarginal row 

 obscure, ground colour paler below vein two. Secondaries with four small basal 

 spots below each other, the fourth shifted inwards, four large spots across the centre 

 of the cell, the first below the costa, the fourth near the inner margin, cell closed 

 by a large spot, below which is another touching the third spot of the previous row. 

 Catenulated fascia composed of eight spots in pairs, the second spot shifted out 

 from the first, these two are quite detached from the rest of the fascia, third spot 

 shifted right outwards, fourth further out, fifth well inwards, sixth slightly out- 

 wards, seventh spot slightly angled and detached from the sixth and from the eighth, 

 which latter I have already mentioned as being the lowest spot of the second row 

 of four spots, submarginal row fairly distinct. Anal spot black, with a second 

 beyond it nearly obscured by a heavy scaling of very pale greenish-blue metallic 

 scales, which edge the anal spot above. Exp. alar., 52 mm. 



JIab. : Singapore. 



The type is in the Tring Museum ; it will come iu the Atosia 

 group of the genus next after Epimuta, Moore, but is so very much 

 larger that it can be recognised at once, the catenulated fascise being 

 quite different. 



Edgbaston : August, 1903. 



