446 LYCANIDA!. _ ARAOTES. 
obliged to remove one of them for the reasons above given, and to make it the type of a new 
genus. 
A. lapithis, Moore, is a small but very beautiful species. The male has the hindwing on the 
upperside entirely rich blue, the basalhalf of the forewing is also blue but of a deeper 
shade and hardly to be seen except in certain lights. The underside is ochreous-rufous marked 
across the disc with a broad white band, which covers the whole of the base of the hindwing, 
and bears numerous black markings scattered over it, with some metallic green ones at the 
anal angle. The female is plain fuscous on the upperside, with a broad patch of white 
on the lower third of the hindwing. A. /apithis has a wide range, and occurs in Sikkim, the 
Chittagong district, and from Burma to Singapore, and again in Java and Borneo, but appears 
tobe nowhere common. Mr. Doherty informs me that he has taken ‘‘two or perhaps three 
species of Araotes in the Malay Peninsula,” which are as yet undescribed. 
985. Araotes lapithis, Moore. (PLaTz XXIX, Fic. 237 ¢). 
Myrina lapithis, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C., vol.i, p. 48,n- 79 (1857);1. 
Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 36, n. 32, pl. xv, figs. 35, 36, ale; 37, 38, female (1863); id., Butler, Trans 
Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 549, n. 5 (1877) ; Sithon lapithis, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1873, p. 351, n.7; Biduanda lapithis, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 238, n. 2, pl. xx, fig. 26, female 
(1884); id., Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 42 (1886); id., Doherty, Journ, A.S. B., 
vol, lv, pt. 2, p. 260, n. 13 (1886). 
Hasitat: Sikkim, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, 
EXPANSE: &, 2, "90 to 1°25 inches. 
DrscCRIPTION : FEMALE. “ UPPERSIDE, Goth wings glossy-brown. Hindwing, anal area, taz/, 
and cilia, white, with a patch of light glistening blue at the anal angle and between the median ner- 
vules. UNDERSIDE, forewing chrome-yellow, darker on the anterior half; a white fascia from the 
middle of the anterior margin, spreading widely across to the posterior margin, and bordered by 
blackish ; three separate blackish short lines across the anterior half of the wing. AHindwing 
white, extreme base and anterior angle yellow, at the base and in the middle of the wing are 
disposed several spots and short lines of black, anal angle black, a black spot at the angle on the 
exterior margin, these being bounded anteriorly with metallic silvery-green, and then yellow.” 
(Moore,1.c, in Cat. Lep. Mus, E. I. C.) 
“ MALE. UePERSIDE, forewing dark brown [black]. AHindwing brilliant blue, with one tail- 
UNDERSIDE, forewing rufous, crossed transversely before the middle by a band of white, bordered 
on both sides with dark brown, atransverse line of the same colour beyond the middle. 
Hindwing silvery white, with several black spots ; the apex broadly rufous ; the caudal spot, a 
spot outside of it, the lobe, a spot between them, and aspot above them irrorated with silvery 
blue ; the outer margin black, traversed by a line of white ; the ¢azl/ [and anal lobe] black. 
FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings rufous-brown. AHindwing with the apex [anal region] and ¢ail 
white. UNDERSIDE does not differ from the male, except that the ¢a7/ [and anal lobe] are white.’’ 
‘* On the underside this species varies considerably in the form of the line which crosses 
the forewing beyond the middle, as well as in the size of the black spots of the hindwing.” 
( Hewitson, |. ¢.) 
I possess a single male of this species from the collection of the late Mr. L. Mandelli, taken 
in Sikkim, and another male taken in Junein Rangoon. There is a single female in the Indian 
Museum, Calcutta, taken by Dr. J. Anderson at Yimiki, King Island, Mergui Archipelago, in 
February ; which are all the specimens I have seen. Mr. Distant’s figure of this species is incorrect 
in showing a tail at the anal angle of the hindwing instead of a lobe. Svthon chitra, Horsfield, 
is remarkably like A. /apithison both surfaces, but on the underside of the forewing there 
is no transverse white band, and on the hindwing the discal black spots are less numerous. 
Mr. Doherty describes the egg of this species as follows:—‘‘Egg small, green, with 
tetragonal reticulations and short truncate spines.” He also notes that the female has a pointed 
abdomen bearing an elongate ovipositor, and that the male prehensores are remarkable in having 
