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posterior angle, Hindwing with a paler brown costal and outer marginal band. UNDERSIDE, 
both wings purplish-brown. Forewing with a white ringlet and two cross bars within the cell, 
followed by two irregular white bars from the end of the cell, an irregular chain-like discal 
band and interrupted submarginal lunules ; two brown spots below the cell, with the discal 
interspaces white. Mindwing with two basal white ringlets, two within the cell, a letter-V 
mark above it, a ringlet beneath the cell, two discal, very irregular curved chain-like bands, 
and two indistinct submarginal lunular lines ; anal angle blackish, speckled with green scales ; 
a prominent white fascia traversing the wing from the abdominal margin below the cell to the 
apex.” (Afoore, 1. c.) 
My knowledge of this species is confined to a single male in the collection of Lieutenant 
E. Y. Watson, who captured it at Beeling, Upper Tenasserim, on gth April, 1886. The 
coloration of the upperside is pale, slightly metallic-blue. On the underside of the hindwing it 
may be known from all the other Indian species of the genus by having a broad whitish streak 
below the costa at right angles to the body, anterior to which the ground is darker than on the 
rest of the wing. Altogether the species can hardly be mistaken for any other. 
Since the above was written, I have seen a male and two females of this species, taken by 
Mr. W. Doherty during the cold weather, at Myitta in the Tenasserim Valley. The female 
is a little larger than the male, and has the costal and outer black border to the forewing 
on the upperside rather broader, The A. azxesta, Hewitson, from Sumatra, and the A, ¢ephlis, 
Hewitson, from Gilolo, have a similar white streak on the hindwing. 
821. Arhopala albopunctata, Hewitson. (FRONTISPIECE, FIG. 126 @). 
Amblypodia albopunctata, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. r4e, n. 89, pl. iiid, figs. 43, 44, male (1869) 5 
Narathura albopunctata, Moore, Journ, Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 44 (1886). 
HABITAT : Burma. 
EXPANSE: 6,2, 1°35 to 1°55 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘‘ MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings brilliant cerulean-blue. Cé/ia rufous. 
forewing with the costal and outer margins very slightly [narrowly] brown. Aindwing witha 
white line before the cilia. UNDERSIDE, d0/k wings rufous-brown, with numerous lines and 
minute spots of white. Forewing with four white lines within and one at the termination of the 
cell, a bifid white spot at the apex. //indwing with three white spots more conspicuous than 
the rest near the basal half of the costal margin, and two black spots crowned with blue at the 
anal angle. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, 40/h wings do not differ from those of the male, except that 
they are of a paler dull blue, and that the apex of the forewing is broadly brown.” (Hewitson, 
is¢:) 
This most lovely species is of a resplendant metallic light blue colour on the upperside in 
the male, reminding one at once of a South American Morfho in miniature. The markings 
of the underside in both sexes are quite sz generis, consisting of fine, bluish-white, prominent 
short lines occupying the entire surface. The female is not metallic on the upperside, and has 
two or three oval black spots in the hindwing onthe margin towards the anal angle. In. 
the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, is a female taken at Mergui in August ; Dr. J. Anderson ob- 
tained it at Mergui in November and December, at Pataw Island in January, and on Sullivan 
Island also in January, all in the Mergui Archipelago ; Major C. T. Bingham obtained a male 
on the Donat range in April, another male in the Thoungyeen Forests in March, anda female 
in the latter locality in December, all in Upper Tenasserim ; lastly Mr. Hewitson recorded it 
from Moulmein. It appears to be confined to Burma. 
Mr. W. Doherty records the following note regarding A. albopunctata :—“ This species, 
like A, theba, Hewitson, and A. aronya, Hewitson, from the Philippines, and a beautiful 
undescribed Celebesian species, mimic the genus amides, Hiibner, both on the upper- and 
underside, resembling Z. e/pis, Godart, and its allies. Another Arhofpala (critala, Felder, from 
the Moluccas) mimics the dazts group of Cyaniris most faithfully.” 
The figure shows both sides of a female specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, cap- 
tured in the Mergui Archipelago. 
