240 LYCANIDA, ARHOPALA, 
in the latter is narrower, more macular, and has its edges deeply scalloped ; the latter also is a 
smaller insect. 
The figure shews both sides of a male specimen from Rangoon in my collection. 
A. inornata, Felder, apparently belongs to this group.* It does not appear to have been 
recognised since it was first described, 
831. Arhopala asopia, Hewitson. 
Amblypfodia asopia, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn, Lep., p. 14/, ns 92, pl illic, figs. 50, 51 (1869). 
Hasitat: Moulmein. 
EXPANSE: 1°7 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “ UPPERSIDE, Joh wings blue or lilac-blue. Forewing with the costal 
margin rufous-brown, the outer margin broadly dark brown. Aindwing with the apex and 
outer margin rufous-brown. UNDERSIDE, oti wings rufous, the basal spots small. Forewing 
with the transverse band (except at the lowest spot) unbroken, the submarginal band broad and 
distinct. Aindwing with the transverse band ‘much broken and indistinct.” (Aezwitson, 1. c.) 
I have not seen this species. From Hewitson’s figure it appears to be of a very pale 
shade of blue on the upperside, the costa broadly at the base, then decreasing to the middle, 
brown ; then increasing tothe apex (where it is widest), thence decreasing to the inner angle, 
black, so as to form a rather broad black margin, which is one-tenth of an inch wide in the 
middle of the outer margin. In the hindwing the black border is very wide at the apex, 
decreasing in width to the anal angle, its inner edge waved, its middle portion about one- 
twentieth of aninch in width. The underside as pictured is of a very unusual tint of reddish- 
ochreous, the spots brown, outwardly defined by pale ochreous. It has no metallic irrorations 
on the hindwing at the anal angle on the underside. The sex of the type specimen is not stated. 
In everything but the mere tone of coloration on both surfaces, it agrees with 4. tounguva, 
Grose Smith, 
832. Arhopala perimuta, Moore. 
Amblypodia perimuta, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 42, n. 64 
(1857) ; id., Hewitson, Cat. Lycenide B. M., p. 12, n. 55, pl. vi, figs. 65, 66, male (1862); idem, id., Ill. 
Diurn. Lep., Suppl., p. 21, n. 62, pl. vii, Suppl., fig. 61, male (1878) ; Darasana ferimuta, Moore, Journ. A. 
S. B., vol. liu, pt. 2, p. 42 (1884) ; idem, id., Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond , Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 44 (1886), 
HapBitat: Sikkim; Sylhet; Khasi Hills ; Magaree, Pegu; Mergui. 
EXPANSE: ¢, @, 1°20 to 1°42 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: ‘‘ MALE. UprersiDe, doth wings glossy purple, with a narrow black 
border on the exterior margins. UNDERSIDE, doth wings brown, glossed over with purple. 
* Arhopala inornata, Felder. Amblypodia inornata, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 396, n. 7 
(1860) ; id., Hewitson, Cat. Lycenide B.M., p. 12, n. 53 (1862); Arhofala inornata, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., 
vol. il, p. 234, n. 201, pl. xxix, fig! 12, male (1865); Narathura inornata, Distant, Rhop Malay., p. 271, n. 17, 
woodcut n. 81, ,mace (1885). Hasirar: Malacca interior, ExpaNnseE: Maée, 1°8 inches. Descriprion: 
© Male. UpPexsibdE, doth wings deeply tinted with cyaneous, a fuscous margin before the cilia. UNDERSIDE 
both wings very pale fuscous. /orewing becoming paler towards the inner margin ; with the following spots sae 
two annular in the cell, a third median, a fourth interior, a fifth disco-cellular ; an exterior fascia curved chain- 
like, all these [spots and fascia] rather more deeply tinted than the ground-colour and bordered with a lighter 
tint, they are not very plainly visible ; there is also a submarginal fascia almost evanescent. Hindwing with 
seven basal spots, annular (the exterior ones rather large), alsoa disco-cellular fascia, and an exterior fascia 
slightly chain-like, whichis broken at the second subcostal and at the first median nervules, and bent up- 
wards posteriorly, and also another fascia submarginal, rather macular and decreasing in width, these are all 
a little deeper in tint than the ground-colour, and margined with a much lighter tint; there isa faint ante- 
marginal line. Femate. Uppersipe, 4044 wings much more diluted in tint. Horewzng with a fuscous costal 
border, passing on to the posterior margin, very broad at the apex, then decreasing conch, rather arched within. 
Hindwing with a fuscous costal border, passing on to a very narrow exter.or border getting broader towards the 
anal angle, with the inner margin brownish as in the male. UNvERSIDE, both wings exactly as in the male.” 
“Ditiers from all other species of the group of A. muta, Boisduval, Hewitson [from Java], in the entire 
absence of the black spots at the anal angle encircled with metallic blue on the underside of the hindwing ; 
in other respects coming nearest to A, agelastus, Hewitson.” (elder, 1. c. in Reise Novara.) But according to 
Hewitson’s figure and description of A. muta, that species has no metallic blue scales at the anal angle of the 
hindwing on the underside. A. agelastus possesses these blue scales. 
“Is not this species an indistinctly marked variety of A. hyfomuta, Hewitson.” (Hewitson. 1. c.) 1 
hardly think this suggestion is correct. A. Ayfomuta has four spots on the underside of the forewing towards 
the base, A. znornata has five; the spots and fascizin A. zmornata are a little darker than the ground-colour, 
while in A. Ayfomuta they are much darker. Lastly, A. Ay/omuta has prominent metallic bright blue patches 
on the anal region of the hindwing, which are entirely absent in 4, inornata. a. inornata does not appear to 
have been recognised since it was first described, 
