246 LYCANIDA. ARHOPALA. 
narrower and less distinct, the submarginal and marginal lunules obsolescent; the anal angle 
less speckled with metallic-green scales, the anal black spot only present.” 
“In S. alea the underside is uniformly purplish-brown, the markings all of a regular 
colour and distinctly lined with pale purplish-white.” (AZoore, 1. c.) 
I possess a single male example of this species from Travancore, kindly sent me by Mr. 
Harold S. Ferguson. It is remarkable in having all the spots on the underside smaller 
than in any species of the genus known to me. It probably takes the place in extreme South 
India of A. atvax, Hewitson. 
800. Arhopala alea, Hewitson. 
Amblypodia alea, Hewitson, Cat. Lycenide B. M., p. 12, n. 57, pl. vil, figs. 79, 81, male (1862) ; Satadra 
alea, Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 38 (1884). 
Hapirat : India (Zevwé2tson). 
EXPANSE: @, I'5 inches, 
DESCRIPTION: “MALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings violet-blue. Fovewzng with the outer 
{black] margin rather broad. A¢ndwirg with the margins as broad as in the females of other 
species. UNDERSIDE, doth wings brown, tinted with lilac. Forew7zg with the transverse band 
long and narrow, slightly curved. Azxdwing with the band broken, ill-defined, the anal 
angle irrorated with white.” (Zewefson, 1. c.) 
Mr, Hewitson’s recorded locality for this species is very vague. I have not seena specimen, 
Sor. Arhopala atrax, Hewitson. 
Amblypodia atrax, Hewitson, Cat. Lycenide B. M., p. 13, n. 58, pl. vii, figs. 80, 82, female (1862) ; id., 
Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, p. 774; Satadra atrax, id., Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 39 (1884)- 
HABITAT: India (/ewiétson) ; foot of the Himalayas from Dehra Dun to Bhutan; Malda, 
and Chota Nagpur Districts ; Central Provinces ; Calcutta; Orissa ; Nilgiris. 
EXPANSE: @, 2,14 to 1°7 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: * MALE. UPPERSIDE, Joth wings brilliant violet-blue, the margins 
with a broad border, as in 4. alea, Hewitson. UNDERSIDE, doth wings rufous-brown, 
tinted with lilac. Forewing with the transverse band broken at the middle, the lower half 
at a greater distance from the margin. Hindwing has the medial band with its two branches 
unbroken, the anal angle irrorated with silvery-blue. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings 
rufous-brown. Jorewing only with a large spot of lilac-blue from the base to the middle. 
UNDERSIDE, forewing differs from the male in having the band unbroken. Hindwing with 
the upper branch of the band broken off.” 
**T have had much difficultyin making out A. atrax and A. alea to my satisfaction. 
I believe that Iam correct with regard to the sexes of A. atrax ; they may, however, belong 
to different species.”” (Hewitson, 1. c.) 
I give Mr. Hewitson’s description of this species as he wrote it. I have no doubt 
at all that he mixed up two distinct species under 4. atrax, but the species is easily recog- 
nisable from his figure of the female. I describe the species in full thus ;— 
MALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing with the costa narrowly, the outer margin somewhat 
broadly (about one-tenth of an inch broad) blackish, the rest of the wing rather obscure 
dull purple. Hindwing with only a small patch of purple from the base to the middle of 
the disc, a whitish lunule on the margin on either side of the tail. UNDERSIDE, doth wings 
greyish-brown, faintly glossed with purple, the spots and fascize small but distinct, dark 
brown margined with greyish. Forewing with the inner margin broadly paler ; a very small 
spot near the base of the cell, a larger elongated one at its middle, a stiil larger attenuated 
spot closing the cell ; two large spots below the cell divided by the first median nervule ; an 
even slightly outwardly-curved discal macular fascia, its lowest spot below the first median 
nervule separated and placed obliquely ; submarginal and marginal obscure fasciz. Hind- 
wing with four very small subbasal spots arranged nearly equi-distantly across the wing, 
another spot below the costal nervure before the middle of the costa, one inthe middle of 
