262 LYCA:NIDA. ARHOPALA. 
A. lycenaria, Felder, occurs inthe Malay Peninsula and Borneo, and is closely allied to 
A. albopunctata, Hewitson, taking its place in that region apparently. It differs from that 
species on the underside in apparently possessing fewer white markings, and in these being not 
so broken up and disintegrated, and as figured the metallic green area at the anal angle of 
the hindwing is of greater extent. I append its description as a foot-note.* I have not 
seen it. 
A. buxtoni, Hewitson, from Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo, is very closely allied to 4. albo- 
punctata, Hewitson. Judging from Hewitson’s figure of a female, it is a shorter broader insect, 
and the outer black margin to the forewing on the upperside is differently shaped, its inner 
edge instead of being regularly curved as in A. albopunctata suddenly becoming much narrower 
below the third median nervule, The markings of the underside do not appear to be quite 
as disintegrated as in A. albofunctata. I append its description as a foot-note.t 
* Arhopala lycenaria, Felder. Amblypodia lycenaria, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 396, n. 8 
(1860) ; id. Hewitson, Cat. Lycenide B. M., p. 12, n. 54 (1862) ; id., Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 
P. 354, 0. 12; Arhofala lycenaria, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. ii, p. 232, n. 258, pl. xxix, fig. 13, male 
(18655) ; Navathura lycenaria, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 269, n, 15, woodcut n. 79, made (1885). HapiratT: 
Malacca interior (Fe/der), Penang, Singapore (Dzstant), Borneo (Druce). Expanse: Male, 1°5 inches. 
Description : ** MALE, shortly tailed. Uprersipe, doth wings pale violet-blue with a slight silvery sheen, 
the costa and margins very narrowly fuscous. A/indwing with a very small fine blue line in the narrow fuscous 
anal border. Unperstbr, doth wings light fuscous. Forewing with the interior margin slightly paling off, 
with the following whitish marks :—four straightish transverse lines, three inthe cell, and the fourth disco- 
cellular ; a small line beyond the cell, a pair of marks below the median nervure, two very short small streaks 
near the upper end of the cell, two small subcostal streaks, other small streaks arranged in a double series, and 
forming a chain-like fascia which is broken at the third median nervule, and finishes at the first median nervule. 
Hindwing with the following whitish-fuscous markings :— six incomplete irregular annular marks, four at the 
base, a fifth in the cell, a sixth below the costa ; a pair of lines one on each side of the disco-cellular nervule, 
a small line intermediate between these and the first median nervule, a double series of exterior small streaks 
forming a broken chain-like fascia ; also three black anal spots bordered inwardly with metallic blue, and 
within these are three black lunules inwardly bordered with whitish.” 
**The colour of the upperside, similar to that of A. efzmuta, Boisduval, Hewitson, and the pattern of the 
underside and texture of the wing, which remind one of Lycena fluto, Fabricius [=/Jamddes boc hus,Cramer) 
and its allies, yet remove this insect proportionately from all hitherto known species of the group of 4. muta, 
Boisduval.”” (Feder, 1. c. in Reise Novara.) 5 
“MALE. UppgrsipeE, doth wings brilliant morpho-blue, the margins with a narrow border of brown, 
UNDERSIDE, J0th wings brown, crossed by numerous irregular lines of lighter brown. Hindwing, anal angle 
with two black spots irrorated with silvery-blue.” (/ewétso, |. c.) 
“Mave. UppersiDE, doth wéngs bright shining cerulean-blue ; costal and outer margins narrowly fuscous, 
Unvers1b8, both wings brownish, with the following greyish linesor fasciz and spots :—/forewing with two 
pairs of transverse lines in the cell (one at the base and one near the middle), and a similar pair at the end of 
the cell ; above the last are two placed close together, and almost reaching the costa; a pair beneath the cell 
situated on each side of the first median nervule ; between the cell and the outer margin is a curved fascia, 
strongly dislocated at the nervules, commencing at the second subcostal nervule, and terminating at the first 
median nervule, and a submarginal row of small greyish spots placed between the nervules. A7xdwing with 
two basal spots, and the whole disc covered with transverse fascia more or less dislocated and fused; three black 
spots with metallic greenish scales near the analangle. ody and /egs more or less concolorous with the wings.” 
‘*] have not seen a female specimen, but in the male sex the species is rendered very distinct from any of 
those preceding and here enumerated [except A. anthelus, Doubleday and Hewitson, but Mr. Distant had not 
seen a male of the latter at the time of writing], by the sze¢ad/ic cerulean-blue of the upperside of the wings. 
As it is now recorded from Penang, Malacca, and Singapore, WV, [= 4.] ¢yceuaria is probably generally distributed 
throughout our area.”’ (Distant, 1. c.) 
+t Arhopala buxtoni, Hewitson. Amblypfodia buxtoni, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., Suppl. p. 22, n. 104, pl, 
viii, Suppl., figs. 68,69, female (1878) ; Narathura buxtoni, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 454, n. 20, pl. xliv, fig. 18, 
Jemale (1885). Hasrrat ; Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo. Expanse : Male and female, 1°4 to 1°6 inches. DEscriP= 
TION : ** MALE. Uppersipe, doth wings brilliant lilac-blue, the margins narrowly brown. UNDERSIDE, 40th 
qwings rufous-brown, crossed by many spots and linear bands of paler colour. /zxdwing with one tail and three 
black spots at the base, crowned with metallic blue. Femate. Uprersipe, doth wings like the male, except that 
it is of a paler blue, and has the outer margin of the forew7ng broadly dark brown.” (/ewétson, 1. c.) 
“ MaLe. UppersipE, both wings bright violaceous-blue, the margin somewhat narrowly dark fuscous, 
Hindwing with a greyish line near the anal angle, the abdominal area greyish brown. Unprrsipk, doth 
wings pale brownish, with the following greyish lines or fascia :—¥o7ewzng with three pairs of subcostal lines, 
the last pair somewhat irregularly continued across the wing towards the first median nervule, where there is 
also a small brown spot surrounded with greyish, two broken submarginal lines, three pairs of lines crossing the 
cell, two (small) lines above the cell, and three lines beneath the cell. Aindwing with some basal spots, and 
crossed by a number of irregular greyish lines, some small submarginal greyish spots, and three black spots 
shaded with metallic green at the anal angle; Zaz/ withits apex greyish. Sody and /egs more or less con- 
colorous with the wings. FemMaLe. Uprersipe, doth wings as in the male, but with a wider dark margin, 
especially at the apices of the wings. UNpgrRSIDE, doth wings asin the male.” (D¢éstant, 1. c.) 
Neither Mr. Hewitson nor Mr. Distant say that the male of this species is metallic on the upperside, but 
I think I may assume thatit is so. Both these writers unfortunately figure the female only. Mr. Distant 
says that he has “here arranged this species after WV. [= A.] lycenarvia,”’ Felder, to which it is evidently 
nearly allied by the shape of the wings and the character of the markings on the underside. NHewitson figures 
the female of a very pale lilac on the upperside, Distant of a deep violaceous-blue, the formeris probably 
the more correct, I have seen no specimen of this species, 
