152 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Assam, we took it at Mhow, and it is in our collection from Ranchi in Bencral, Karwar, 

 Quilon near Tinavelli in the extreme south of India, Colombo and Trincomali. 



ARHOPALA AMATRIX. 



Plate 674, figs. 1, (J , la, 9, lb, <J . 



ArTiopala amatrix, de Niceville, Joum. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 370, pi. G, figs. 23, ^ ; 24, 9 • 

 Watson, id. 1891, p. 47, and 1897, p. 662. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 629. Bethune- 

 Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 42. 



Imago. — Male. tJpperside shining purple-blue, a narrow, black costal band, a 

 broader black band on the outer margin, broadest at the apex. Hindwing with the 

 margins broadly blackish-brown, nearly black, the blue occupying a much smaller space 

 than it does in A. amantes, to which this form is closely allied ; tail blackish-brown, 

 tipped with white, long and rather broad, slight projections at the ends of all the veins, 

 the longest tooth-like at the end of vein 3, and sometimes a smaller one at the end of 

 vein 4. Underside varying in colour from pale lavender-brown to lavender-grey, spots 

 and bands brown, double-edged with darker brown and white, arranged almost exactly 

 as in A. amantes, but the discal band on the forewing is more disjointed at the fourth 

 spot from the costa, and the markings on both sides of the discal band of the hindwings 

 generally more or less obsolete. 



Female. Upperside paler blue, in some examples with a violet tint, the broad 

 bands only distinguishable in certain lights, both wings with the marginal bands very 

 much broader than in the male. Underside as in the male, but the ground colour 

 usually paler. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 2 to 2-f-^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — Elwes records it from Bernardmyo, AVatson from Chin Lushai and 

 the Chin Hills, we have it from Tenasserim, and it is in the B. M. also from Tilin Yaw. 



ARHOPALA AGNIS. 

 Plate 674, figs. 2, (J , 2a, ? , 2b, $. 



Arhopala agnis, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 228 (1865). Staudinger, Ex. ScLmett. p. 281, pi. 96, <J 

 (1888). Doherty, Joum. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 418. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 236 

 (1890). H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 589. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, 

 p. 125. 



Amhlypodia agnis, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 14a (1869). 



Naraihura agnis, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 262, pi. 21, fig. 29, ? (1885). 



Arrhopala agnis, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 466. 



