264 LYC/AENIDZ. ARHIOPALA. 
that A, eumolphus and A. bufola are opposite sexes of one species ; I have examined large series 
of both, and find that all the males are green and all the females are purple ; besides, the mark- 
ings of the underside are absolutely identical. In all localities in India where oneis found 
the other also is met with. A. ewmolphus isa fairly common species at low elevations in 
Sikkim ; Mr. Otto Moller possesses specimens taken in October and November. It occurs 
throughout Assam, and the late Mr. H. M. Parish took it in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in 
November. 
823. Arhopala farquhari, Distant. 
Narathura farquhari, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 264, n. 5, pl. xxiii, fig. 3, male (1885) ; Amblypodia 
eumolphus, Butler (xec Cramer), Trans, Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 548, n. 2 (1877). 
HapiratT: Burma, Malay Peninsula, S.-E. Borneo. 
EXPANSE: @, I°7 to 2'1 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “ MALE. UPPERSIDE, 40h wings bright golden-green, Forewing with the 
costal margin narrowly, and the outer margin more broadly, dark fuscous. Hindwing with the 
costal, posterior and abdominal margins dark fuscous, the posterior widest and continued in rays 
along the median nervules; apex of fail greyish-white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings brownish, 
with spots and fascize margined with greyish. Forewing with two spots in the cell, one trans- 
verse at the end of the cell reaching the third subcostal nervule, a small spot between the bases 
of the second and third subcostal nervules, two spots beneath the cell divided by the first 
median nervule, a macular fascia between the end of the cell and the outer margin, strongly 
dislocated at the third median nervule, a submarginal and a more obscure marginal fascia, 
Hindwing with seven basal spots ; two medial transverse macular fascize dislocated and united 
into one from the second subcostal nervule to the costal nervure, marginal and submarginal 
fascize as on the forewing, but more obscure, and three transverse metallic greenish spots, more 
or less marked with black, near the anal angle. ody above and beneath, including /egs, more 
or less concolorous with the wings.” 
“ This species has hitherto been confounded with the WM. [=4.] eumolphus of Cramer, but 
a reference to that author’s figure will at once dispel any ground of misunderstanding, it having 
the outer discal transverse fascia to the forewing straight and not strongly dislocated as in 
this species. Cramer also gives the ‘ Coast of Bengal’ as its habitat.” (Distant, 1. c.) 
Mr. Distant (l. c., p- 463) describes the female of 4. farguhari as follows :—“ FEMALE. 
UPPERSIDE, both wings resembling the male in hue, but the forewing witha broad costal 
and outer marginal dark fuscous fascia ; this dark colour being broadest at the apex.” It 
is probable that the specimen above described is the male of quite a distinct species ; it is 
impossible that it can be the female of 4. farquhari. 
Mr. Doherty has written the following note on A. farquhari:—‘* This species seems to be 
quite distinct from A. eumolphus, Cramer, not, as Mr. Distant says, on account of the dis- 
located transverse band of the forewing, which often [usually] occurs in A. eumolphus, 
but on account of the uniform dull brown colour of the underside, the pale rings enclosing 
slightly darker brown spots, while in 4. eumolphus the wings are washed with bronzy-grey, 
the ground-colour varying in different places [very much as in 4. rama, Kollar, which has a 
very similar silky-glossed underside], the spots small and distinct, while the anal green area 
is usually obsolescent. The female of A, farguhari is bright blue over fully half the forewing, 
its edge serrate, with a wide brown border on both wings, darkening where it borders on and 
deeply indents the blue subapically. The species is extremely uniform everywhere, and is 
abundant from Tavoy and Mergui to South-Eastern Borneo.” 
I admit this species as distinct from 4. eumolphus with considerable reluctance. Mr. 
Butler and Mr. Moore* have both failed to recognise its distinctiveness, and I placed the 
two species together until I had read the above quoted note by Mr. Doherty. It is difficult to 
* There are Mergui specimens of A. /argufarz in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, ticketed 4. exmolphus by 
Mr. Moore. 
