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ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN LEPIDOPTERA 

 FROM THE INDO-MALAYAN REGION. 



By Lionel de Niceviue, f.e.s., c.m.z.s., &c. 



(With Plates R, S, and T.) 



{Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on 19th Sept., 1895.) 



{Continued from page 40.) 



Suborder RHOPALOCERA. 



Family LYC^NID^. 



19. ARRHOPALA AUZBA, n, sp., PI, S, Figs. 29, <^ ; 30, 9. 



Habitat : Preanger, S.-W. Java. 



Expanse: ^, ?, 2*4 inches. ' 



Desckiption : Male. Dpperside, both wings shining pale silvery-, 

 blue. Forewing with ttfe costa as far as the subcostal nervure, the 

 apex widely and the outer margin less widely, of a darker and more 

 purple tint than the rest of the wing ; the costa and outer margin very 

 narrowly black. Hindwing with the costa somewhat widely fuscous ; 

 the abdominal margin, as far as the submedian nervure, whitish ; the 

 outer margin broadly but decreasingly to the anal angle of the same 

 purple tint as the costa and outer margin of the forewing ; the outer 

 margin with a narrow anteciliary black line as in the forewing, within 

 which, at the anal angle, are two narrow black spots divided by the 

 submedian nervure ; tail at the end of the first median nervule long, 

 black, tipped with white i a short tooth-like projection at the termina- 

 tion of the submedian nervure. Underside, both wings dull hair- 

 brown ; all the spots of a much darker shade of brown, outwardly 

 prominently defined by a white line. Forewing^ with all the 

 veins more or less defined with white ; the inner margin broadly 

 whitish ; a large round spot towards the base of tne discoidal cell, a 

 still larger one in the middle, a still larger again quadrate one at the 

 end of the cell, its outer edge trifestooned ; a large spot posterior to 

 the costal nervure anterior to the middle spot in the cell ; two spots 

 beyond this, one above the other, anterior to the spot at the end of the 

 cell and divided by the first subcostal nervule ; a large spot at the base 

 of the submedian interspace extending into the sutural area, joined 

 to another large transverse spot placed at the base of the first median 



