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798. Arhopala selta, Hewitson. 
Amblyfodia setta, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 14% n. 92, pl. ilia, figs. 36, 37, female (1869) ; Satadra selta, 
Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 38 (1884). 
HasitatT: Moulmein (Hew/tson) ; Mergui Archipelago, 
EXPANSE: §, I'9 inches (Hewitson) ; 6, 1°43 2, 1°5 inches (Hewitson’s figure). 
DESCRIPTION : FEMALE. ‘‘ UPPERSIDE, doth wings lilac-blue, with the margins broadly 
dark brown, darkest on the forewing. forewing witha black line at the end of the cell. 
UNDERSIDE, oth wings lilac, with the usual subbasal spots, and a submarginal macular 
band, Forewing with a straight broad equal band before the apex. Hindwing with a large 
quadrate spot atthe middle of the costal margin, from which branch off two other bands of 
spots all rufous-brown, black spots on each side of the tail and at the anal angle irrorated 
with blue.”’ 
“ Differs from A. alea, Hewitson, only in the very straight and much broader band before 
the apex of the forewing, which is, in this genus, the most prominent guide to species.” (ezuit- 
son, 1. c.) 
In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is a single male of this species collected at Yimiki, King 
Island, Mergui Archipelago, by Dr. J. Anderson, on 25th February, 1882. This specimen 
Mr. Moore recorded* as 5S. agada, Hewitson, though with some doubt, as he ticketed it 
‘This is probably agada 2.” It certainly is not that species, from which it differs in being 
smaller, of a more brilliant, more shining, and lighter purple colour on the upperside, in having 
the outer black margins fully three times as broad, and on the underside of the forewing the 
discal band much broader, not at all divided into spots, and apparently nearer the margin. It 
is not so strongly glossed with purple as in A. agada, in which a strong purple gloss is a 
very prominent feature. The disposition and number of the spots on the underside is 
the same in A, agaéa and A, selta. ‘This species seems to be quite distinct, and should 
be easily recognised, 
799. Arhopala canaraica, Moore. 
Satadra canaraica, Moore, Journ, A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 39 (1884) ; id., Waterhouse, Aid, pl, clxv, 
figs. 5, 5a, male (1886). 
HABITAT: Canara, S. India (dZoore) ; Travancore. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1'37to 1°60; 2, 1°75 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “Allied to S.[=A.]alea, Hewitson. MALE and FEMALE. UPPER- 
SIDE, doth wings of a more purplish violet-blue than in S. aZea, the marginal black border com- 
paratively narrower in the male. UNDERSIDE, Joh wings of a darker purplish violet-brown. 
Forewing with the basal spots darker, the two cell-spots very small and round, the disco- 
cellular spot and the two below the cell narrower, the transverse discal band regular and 
not broken on the third median nervule, the submarginal and marginal Junules obsolescent. 
Hindwing with the basal and subbasal spots darker and very small, the discal zigzag band 
_ Mr. Distant has not received this species from the Malay Peninsula, but figures a specimen now in the 
British Museum, collected by Captain Pinwill in Malacca. As figured by Hewitson, the forewing has three 
increasing spots in the cell, a fourth minute spot on the costa above the spot closing the cell, two spots below 
the cell divided by the first median nervule, and a very nearly straight discal series of six nearly ejual-sized 
spots. On the hindwing are four basal and three subbasal spots and one closing the cell, the usual irregular 
discal series, and a submarginal series, I think it more than probable that the Malacca specimen figured by 
Distant is not the true «. azvoa, as it shows quite a wide black margin to both wings on the upperside, while 
Hewitson emphasises the fact that the margin is very narrow. Mr. Distant’s specimen also is a good deal 
larger than the type. 
Mr. W. Davison has sent mea long series of both sexes of a species of Arhofala from Singapore which 
I think it best to call by the name avoa. The male is violet-blue on the upperside, the black margins are very 
narrow, and the shape of the band on the underside of the forewing more or less agrees with Hewitson’s 
description and figure of the species, but it is rather variable, being sometimes quite continuous and some- 
times broken below the second median nervule ; it also agree in size with the type. These specimens differ 
a little, however, from the figure in that the spot at the base of the first median interspace of the forewing on the 
underside is much nearer to the discal band than is shown in Hewitson’s figure, from which it looks to me to be 
unnaturally widely separated. Under the circumstances, I consider it better to call my specimens avoa than 
to describe them as a “‘ new species.’’ In these specimens all the markings of the underside are prominent, of 
a darker brown than the ground and outwardly defined with grey. ‘he female differs from the male on the 
upperside of both wings in pope 2 the blue coloration of a lighter, more purplish tint, the costa and outer 
margins of both wings and the abdominal margin of the hindwing broadly black. 
* Satadva agaba, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 44 (1885). 
