U6 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



SECTION I. 

 With tails, and with the markings of the underside formed of spots. 



ARHOPALA CONSTANCEiE. 



Plate 672, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, ^ . 



Arhopala constancese, de Nice\ille, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1894, p. 34, pi. 4, fig. 11, ? . Bethune- 

 Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 33. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark shining violaceous-blue. ' Forewing with fine 

 l)lack costal and outer marginal line. Hindwing with the costal space narrowly black, 

 and a black outer marginal line, abdominal fold pale blackish, tails broken, but 

 probably like its female, black tipped with white. Cilia of both wings purplish-black. 

 Underside dark chocolate-brown with a thick purplish gloss ; markings slightly darker 

 than the ground colour, pale edged. Forewing with a round sub-basal spot in the cell, 

 a larger oval spot in the middle, and a bar at the end, an outwardly oblique spot below 

 the inner end of the discoidal spot, and a similar spot in the next lower interspace, 

 below the middle cell spot, well separated from each other, the hinder marginal space 

 from these spots to the sub-marginal band broadly pale ; a discal band of six evenly 

 sized, conjoined spots almost straight, a rather broad sub-marginal macular band, with 

 another indistinct band between it and the marginal line which is dark brown. 

 Hindwing with four sub-basal spots, the third a little outwards, the fourth a little 

 inwards, followed by three larger spots in a line, the third curved, a curved bar at the end 

 of the cell, a discal series of eight spots, the inner lower end of the second touching the 

 outer upper end of the discoidal bar, the third a little outwards, the fifth a little inwards, 

 the seventh in a curve as usual joining the eighth, which runs inwards on to the abdominal 

 margin, a rather broad, macular, sub-marginal band, brown marginal line, with a series 

 of small lunular marks close to the margin, a black anal spot and a minute black spot 

 in each of the following two interspaces, the former capped with metallic green scales, the 

 latter covered with them. 



Female. Upperside, both wings rich shining, rather light blue. Foreiving with 

 the costa as far as the sub-costal nervure, the apex very widely, and the outer margin 

 widely, purplish-black. Hindwing with the costa and outer margin broadly purplish- 

 black, abdominal margin pale fuscous ; the anal lobe small, purplish -black ; tail rather 

 short, purplish-black, tipped with white. Cilia purplish-black throughout. Underside, 

 both wings purplish-reddish-brown, the markings a little darker only than the ground 

 colour. Forewing with a small round dot towards the base of the discoidal cell, a larger 

 one at its middle, a large one at its end, with a spot below filling the base of the first 

 median interspace, the discal band straight, evenly formed of six nearly equal-sized 



