﻿LYC^NID.^ 
  (Oriental). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  XIV. 
  

   A 
  R 
  II 
  O 
  r 
  A 
  L 
  A 
  I. 
  

  

  I.— 
  AEHOPALA 
  SOPHEOSYNE. 
  i. 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  ?. 
  Fig. 
  3. 
  

  

  Arhopala 
  Sophwsyne, 
  Grose-Smith, 
  "Entomologist's 
  Monthly 
  Magazine," 
  

   XXV., 
  p. 
  300 
  (1889); 
  H. 
  H. 
  Druce, 
  "Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society 
  of 
  

   London," 
  1891 
  p. 
  357, 
  Plate 
  XXXIL, 
  fig. 
  9, 
  g 
  . 
  

  

  Exp. 
  2 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Upperside. 
  Brilliant 
  metallic 
  azure-blue, 
  shading 
  along 
  the 
  costa 
  

   of 
  anterior, 
  and 
  the 
  apex 
  and 
  outer 
  margins 
  (which 
  are 
  black) 
  of 
  both 
  wings, 
  

   to 
  ultramarine 
  ; 
  costal 
  area 
  of 
  posterior 
  wings 
  brownish-black 
  ; 
  abdominal 
  fold 
  

   greyish-brown. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  Basal 
  half 
  of 
  anterior 
  wings, 
  a 
  dark 
  blotch 
  beyond 
  the 
  cell, 
  a 
  

   rather 
  oblique 
  band 
  of 
  confluent 
  spots, 
  and 
  a 
  rather 
  broad 
  marginal 
  band, 
  dark 
  

   olivaceous-brown, 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  wings 
  very 
  pale 
  olivaceous-brown 
  ; 
  two 
  small 
  

   silvery 
  spots 
  in 
  the 
  cell 
  near 
  the 
  base, 
  an 
  oval 
  silvery 
  spot 
  centred 
  with 
  brown 
  

   near 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  an 
  irregular 
  whitish-brown 
  line 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  

   an 
  indistinct 
  reniform 
  dusky 
  marking 
  below 
  the 
  cell. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  dark 
  

   olivaceous-brown 
  ; 
  a 
  pale 
  olivaceous-brown 
  band 
  from 
  the 
  apex, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  

   rather 
  broad, 
  gradually 
  narrowing 
  down 
  to 
  the 
  second 
  median 
  nervule 
  ; 
  several 
  

   pale 
  olivaceous 
  spots 
  and 
  markings 
  near 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  across 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  a 
  

   narrow, 
  submarginal, 
  silvery-blue 
  line 
  above 
  the 
  tails, 
  and 
  thence 
  to 
  the 
  anal 
  

   angle, 
  above 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  broad 
  black 
  band 
  irregularly 
  dentate 
  inwardly, 
  and 
  

   intersected 
  by 
  an 
  interrupted, 
  irregular 
  row 
  of 
  metallic 
  blue 
  markings. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Upperside. 
  Eesembles 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  darker 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   wings 
  the 
  costal, 
  apical, 
  and 
  outer 
  margins 
  are 
  broadly 
  black, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  

   costal 
  and 
  apical 
  portion 
  of 
  posterior 
  wings. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  Same 
  as 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  paler. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Guadalcanar 
  (Woodford). 
  

  

  Nearest 
  to 
  A. 
  ^xone, 
  Hew. 
  The 
  colouring 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  on 
  the 
  tipperside 
  resembles 
  

   A. 
  Sojihax, 
  Mathow, 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  smaller 
  insect 
  ; 
  the 
  undersides 
  are 
  very 
  different. 
  

  

  The 
  male 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  Collections 
  of 
  Messrs. 
  Godman 
  and 
  Salvin 
  and 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith, 
  and 
  the 
  

   female 
  in 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith's 
  Collection. 
  

  

  VOL. 
  III., 
  JANUARY, 
  1898. 
  H 
  

  

  