256 LYCANID. ARHOPALA. 
straight sides, from the costa to the third median nervule, continued irregularly almost to the 
first median nervule ; the outer margin, except at the apex, dark ; a marginal blackish line. 
Hindwing very deep chocolate-brown ; a paler, violet-glossed band, edged by a paler line, across 
it from the costa to the submedian nervure, crossing the cell ; beyond this a dark transverse 
band ; apex with a large dark area, its margin violet-whitish ; disc mostly glossed with violet, 
its lower part irrorated with violet-whitish scales ; a dark submarginal fascia, rather wide and 
conspicuous subanally ; an obscure metallic-green and black ocellus in the first median inter- 
space, and one on the lobe, the green extending to the submedian nervure : the wing is slightly 
scalloped, with a distinct lobe, and a very short tail at the end of the first median nervule.” 
**In its small size and short tail it differs from the other species of the group.” (Doherty, 1. c.) 
813. Arhopala diardi, Hewitson. 
Amblypodia diardi, Hewitson, Cat. Lycenide B. M., p. 9, n. 43, pl. v, figs. 51, 52, (if corrected in MS., 
then figs. 41, 42) male (1862) ; id., Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 107,n. 2; Amblypodia? diardi, 
Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 549, n. 13 (1877) ; Satadra diardi, Moore, 
Journ, A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 41 (1884) ; Panchala diardi, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 272, n, x, pl. xxiii, 
fig. 14, female (1885). 
HapitaT: India (Hewitson), Nahconchaisee, Siam (Druce), Penang (Moore), Malacca 
(Butler), Singapore (M¢stant) ; Assam. 
ExPANSE: ¢@, I'4to 2°13 9, 1'6 to 2'0 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘‘ MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings [very deep] violet-blue, the margins with 
a very narrow brown border. UNDERSIDE, doth wings light grey-brown. Forewing without the 
usual basal spots ; the base, an irregular medial broad band, and the usual band, which is united 
with it at its lowest extremity and is very regular and curved outwards at its middle, all rufous- 
brown. Hindwing, which is without any regular band, has the basal spots very large, the 
anal angle largely irrorated with golden-green, marked with two black spots wide apart.” 
(Hewitson, 1. c.) ‘* FEMALE, UPPERSIDE, Goth wings dark violaceous-blue. Forewing with the 
costal and outer margins broadly (especially at the apex) dark fuscous. Hindwing with the 
costal and posterior margins fuscous; apex of ¢a¢/ greyish-white. UNDERSIDE, both wings 
violaceous-brown, with the following dark purplish-brown markings and fasciz margined with 
greyish :—forewing with the basal half of the costal area (somewhat paler), basal half of the 
cell (somewhat excavated internally), a broad curved and angulated fascia commencing at the 
end of the brown costal area and terminating at the first median nervule, followed by a more 
regularly-curved fascia extending from the costa to the first median nervule, and a narrow 
marginal and submarginal fascia fused togethernear the apex. Hindwing with a basal costal 
spot, followed by eight very irregularly-sized spots (some more or less fused, and one long and 
fascia-like extending from the costa to the base of the third median nervule) on the discal half, 
again followed by an outer dislocated narrow fascia, which is merged in a purplish-brown 
patch near the apex, a faint lunulate marginal fascia including some very small spots, and 
three large marginal spots of metallic greenish scales near the anal angle, the first and third 
of which contain a black spot. ody above and beneath more or less concolorous with the 
wings. Zegs concolorous, the tarsi greyish.” (Distant, 1. c.) 
The only specimens of this species that I have seen are from Assam. Mr. S. E. Peal 
has sent it from Sibsagar, the Revd. Walter A. Hamilton from near Shillong, and it was 
obtained by the Dafla Expedition. It is very near to A. /u/gida, Hewitson, but may be known 
from that species by the broad subbasal band on the underside of the hindwing being broken up 
into spots ; the metallic green irrorations at the anal angle are also more numerous and broadly 
spread, and less brassy in shade. The species has a wide range, occurring from Assam to 
Singapore, and is replaced in Sumatra by the very closely-allied 4. cafeta of Hewitson,* Mr. 
Butler notes (l.c.) ‘ This species would, I think, be better placed in Uzica, Hewitson.” 
(8 ara capeta, Hewitson, Ill, Diurn, Lep., Suppl., p. 22, n. 195, pl, (Suppl.) viii, figs. 70, 71, female 
1878). 
