1895.] ilB. H. H. DRIJCE ON BOBifEAif LXC.BKID.i. 593 



Aehopala axtimijta. 



Arhopala antimuta, Feld. Reise Nov., Lep. vol. ii. p. 233 (1865). 



Arhopala davisoni, de Nicev. Butt. lud. etc. iii. p. 280, frontis- 

 piece, fig. 135, d' (1890). 



Sandakan and Elopura (Pri/er) ; Labuau (Low). 



I have been able to examine the type of A. antinmta in the 

 Felder collectiou, and find that A. davisoni is identical with it. It 

 is entirely \Wthout the large round patch of scales described by 

 Mr. de Niceville (Butt. Ind. etc. iii. p. 277), but not by Pelder, as 

 belonging to it. Mr. de Xiceville appears to have confounded 

 the species which I have doubtfully referred to A. atosia, Hew., 

 with A. antimuta, but an examination of Telder's type proves 

 that this is incorrect. The blue colour of the type and only 

 specimen in the Pelder collection is quite dark, much as in A. aroa, 

 but darker, whilst the specimens he probably refers to are quite a 

 different colour. Mr. H. J. Ehves records it from Borneo (P. Z. S. 

 1892, p. 633) '. 



Arhopala alacoxia. 



Amblypodia alaconia. Hew. 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. p. 14, pi. iii c. 

 figs. 52, 53 (1869) ; Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 353. 



Labuau (Low). 



Below will be found described what I believe to be a new species 

 of the genus Mahathala, Moore '. 



Arhopala epimuta. 



Amblypodia epimuta, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 42 (1857). 



Borneo (Low). 



' Messrs. Godman and Salvia's collection contains a single specimen of 

 A. inornata, Feld., from the Philippine Is., which I have compared with Felder's 

 type. The figure is a fairly good one, and anyone possessing the species should 

 have no difficulty in recognizing it on account of its unusual shape. The hind 

 wing below is entirely without any metallic scales at the anal angle. It is 

 apparently a rare species, as the specimen here mentioned is recorded for 

 the first time since it was described. 



^ Mahathala gone, sp. n. 



Allied to M, ameria, Hew. Upperside dark purple-blue with much broader 

 black margins ; cilia, tails, and anal fold of hind wing buif-colour. Underside — 

 fore wing dull greyish brown with pale bars and markings arranged as in 

 M. ameria, but with the ultra-median band wider, straighter, and not angled on 

 the costa as in that species: hind wing uniform dtill yellowish stone-colour, 

 sprinkled with minute black dots, generally largest on the nervules ; two dull 

 black irregular spots in line near the base just below the median nervure, the 

 largest at the origin of first median nervule. A few patches of pale reddish 

 scales, thickest near the base. Head, thorax, and abdomen black above, yel- 

 lowish beneath. Antenna black. 



Expanse lyV inch. 



Hob. Mongolia. Type Mus. G. & S. 



The type specimen, which was formerly in Mr. Druce's collection, is unique, 

 and differs so much from all specimens I have seen of M. ameria that I feel 

 sure it is anotiier species. I cannot determine to which sex the specimen 

 described belongs. 



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