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colour, margined with whitish-brown, and all well-separated one from the other :—six annular 
spots, three basal, two subbasal, and one internal, a small disco-cellular fascia, a spot below 
it, and an exterior fascia, which is chain-like anteriorly, interrupted at the second subcostal 
nervule, and posteriorly broken and bent upwards ; there are also three black anal spots, the 
first and third berdered inwardly with metallic blue, the middle one overlaid with atoms of 
this colour.” (/é/der, 1. c.) “ FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings violaceous: blue, costal and outer 
margins broadly fuscous. [Hédzwing with the abdominal margin broadly whitish.] UNDERSIDE, 
both wings pale brownish, with the following spots and fascize margined with greyish :—/orewing 
with two spots in the cell and one at the end of the cell, two spots beneath the cell divided by the 
first median nervule,a somewhat curved macular fascia between the end of the cell and the 
outer margin commencing near the costa and terminating at the first median nervule, and a more 
obscure submarginal fascia. Aindwing with about seven basal spots, a subquadrate spot at 
the erd of the cell continued asa macular fascia to the abdominal margin, an outer discal 
macalar fascia which becomes duplex near the anal angle, and a somewhat obscure submarginal 
fascia; three transverse, marginal, metallic greenish streaks, the innermost witha black spot 
/near the analangle (‘wo of these are rubbed or obliterated in the specimen figured); tail with 
the apex greyish-white. Body above more or less concolorous with the wings, beneath more 
or less greyish ; /egs pale brownish.” (Distant, 1. c.) 
“Our single male is most closely allied to the insect which Hewitson (Ill. Diurn. Lep., 
p- 4,n. 8, pl. i, figs. 6, 7, fema/e) figures as the female of his 4. anarte, but it is safe to separate 
it owing to the smaller spots of the underside, and the two uppermost ocelli on that side fully 
separated from the fascia of the hindwing.” 
“Of the true A. azarte, Hewitson, we received also a male from Count Castelnau from 
the interior of Malacca.” (Felder, 1. c.) 
“It is evidently a much rarer insect than V. [=A.] centaurus, Fabricius, or at least more 
seldom met with by collectors. Mr. Kirby has placed V, agnis as a synonym of the Sumatran 
species, JV. anarte, Hewitson, but it is sufficiently distinct for specific separation.” (Dise 
tant, 1.c.) With reference to this remark, the true 4. anarte of Hewitson, described without 
locality, is of course distinct, but the female example Mr. Hewitson figured under that name 
is undoubtedly the female of 4. agnzs, as pointed out by Hewitson himself, and it occurs in 
Sumatra, according to that writer. 
Neither Felder nor Distant describe all the spots which are found on the underside of 
this species. In the six specimens I have seen, three males and three females, two have a small 
spot above and attached to the spot in the middle of the cell of the forewing on the underside, 
two specimens have a small spot above the subcostal nervure between the spot in the middle 
of the cell and the spot closing the cell, and two specimens possess a small spot on the costa 
above the spot closing the cell ; the discal series consists of seven spots, the uppermost at the 
costa out of line, shifted towards the base of the wing. In the hindwing there are four subbasal 
spots in a curved series, then three larger spots beyond in a straight line, a large spot closing 
the cell, anda small one below it at the base of the first median interspace; the discal series 
is particularly regular, it consists of six annular spots arranged in pairs, then a lengthened 
hook-shaped spot reaching the abdominal margin. 
In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, are a pair of this species from Perak, and I possess a 
single female taken in the Thoungyeen Forests, Upper Tenasserim, in March, by Major C. T, 
Bingham. The coloration of this specimen is much more blue on the upperside than the Perak 
female, but it does not otherwise differ. Mr. Doherty took it at Mergui. 
788. Arhopala silhetensis, Hewitson, 
Amblypodia silhetensis, Hewitson, Cat. Lycenide B. M., p. 7, n. 31, Pl. iv, figs. 27, 28, male (1852). 
HaBITaT: Sylhet (Aezwitson) ; Sikkim Dooars, 
EXPANSE: 6, §%, 2°I inches, 
