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spots extending from the costa to the first median nervule ; two indistinct sub-marginal 

 macular bands, the inner margin broadly pale, this pale area reaching to the sub-median 

 nervure with an indistinct spot (its outer edge sharply defined) within and posterior to 

 the point where the first median nervule arises. Hindwing with the usual basal spot 

 small, the quadrate spot closing the discoidal cell touching the large second anterior 

 spot of the usual diseal fascia ; the sub-marginal band broad, the anal lobe bearing a 

 small deep black spot crowned with dull dark green scales, with a few scattered similar 

 scales in the interspace beyond. There is no allied Indian species with which I can 

 compare this, but it appears to be very similar on the underside to A. ate, Hewitson, from 

 Amboina, differing, however, in the diseal band of the hindwing touching the discocellular 

 spot, instead of being widely separated from it, and in having the metallic green 

 sprinkling at the anal angle. Described from a single example obtained at Port Blair 

 by the late Mr. Wimberley, after whose widow I have much pleasure in naming it. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? IxV inches. 



Habitat. — S. Andamans. 



The description of the female is a copy of de Niceville's, and our figure is a copy 

 of his. We have not been able to see it ; the unique type is in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. The male we have had in our collection unnamed for some time, it well 

 matches the female, which is well described and figured by de Niceville, and the 

 undersides correspond ; it is no doubt, as suggested by Bethune-Baker, a local form of 

 A. meander, Boisduval. 



ARHOPALA CENTAURUS. 

 Plate 672, figs. 3, ^, 3a, ? , 3b, $. 



Papilio centaurtts, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 520 (1775) ; id. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 117 (1781) ; id. Mant. Ins. 



ii. p. 68 (1787). 

 Hesperia centaurus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. (i.) p. 275 (1793). 

 Polyommatus centaurus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 658 (1823). 

 AmhJypodia centaurus, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 102 (1829). Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 3 



pi. 2, fig. 12, (J, 11, ? (1862). Moore, Proc. Zool. Sec. 1865, p. 775. Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. 



B. M. p. 179 (1869). Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 107. Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 



Lond. 1877, p. 548. 

 Naraihura centaurus, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 261, pi. 21, figs. 4, g , 5, 9 (1885). Hagen, 



Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxviii. p. 152 (1892). 

 Nilasera centaurus, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 44. 

 Arhopala centaurus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 234 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. 1891, p. 47, and 1897, p. 662. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 629. de Niceville and 



Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 464. H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 588, and 



1896, p. 671. Betbune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 39, pi. 4, figs. 10, 10a (genitalia). 

 Polyommatus helus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 652 (1823). 

 Amblypodia nakula, Folder, Wien, Ent. Mon. iv. p. 395 (1860). Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 353, 



Kheil, Rhop. Nias, p. 33 (1884). 



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