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Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — Martaban, Maulmein, and Ataran Valley, all in Tenasserim ; de 

 Niceville's description is so perfect, we have thought it advisable to reproduce it ; our 

 figures are from an example from Tenasserim in the B. M. ; there is also a male from 

 King Island, Mergui Archipelago. 



ARHOPALA ANTHELUS. 

 Plate 675, figs. 1, ^ , la, ? , lb, ? . 



Amhlyjjodia anthelus, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 478, pi. 74, fig. 6, ^ (1852). 



Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 5, pi. 3, figs. 23, 24, ? (1862). 

 Satadra anthelus, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 39. 

 Narathura anthelus. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 263, pi. 23, fig. 4, J (1885). 

 Arhopala anthelus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 259 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 



p. 631. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 78. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, deep morpho-blue, shining. Forewing with a narrow 

 blackish costal band, a wider similar sub-marginal band. Hindwing with the costal 

 space broadly blackish, the outer marginal black band narrow, with a blackish patch at 

 the anal angle, lobe small, tail stout, rather long, black, tipped with white, slight 

 projections at the ends of veins 1 and 3, abdominal fold brown. Cilia black, with grey 

 tips. Underside chocolate-brown, with a slight ochreous tint ; spots varying in colour, 

 some very dark, nearly black, with pale ochreous edges, others pale, slightly darker 

 than the ground colour, with double edgings, the inner edge dark, the outer pale 

 ochreous-grey. Forewing with the usual three cell spots, all dark and large, the sub- 

 basal spot double extended upwards beyond the sub-costal vein, the middle spot 

 joined to two others above it, the upper of the three being a little outwards on the 

 costa, the end spot is double, its lower end projecting a little outwards, a smaller dark 

 spot below it, and a large pale spot in the next hinder interspace, below the middle cell 

 spot ; discal band of six spots, all touching each other, the upper three pale, the others 

 dark, the first is against the costa, the second well outwards, the third and fourth 

 below it, in a slight outwardly inclined row, the upper outer end of the fifth touches the 

 lower inner end of the fourth, and the sixth, which is larger, is below it ; a sub-marginal 

 series of brown spots, brown marginal line and indications of pale brownish lunular 

 marks against it ; the lower marginal area of the wing somewhat paler than the rest of 

 the wing. Hindwing with the ground colom- fairly uniform in tone, a dark spot on the 

 immediate base, four sub-basal dark spots, the upper one much the largest, the lowest 

 well inwards followed by three larger spots in a line, the middle one the smallest, the 

 lower one very large, and sub-quadrate, and has a long dark spot attached to its outer 

 side, the outer side of this long spot touching the inner lower end of an outwardly 

 curved, rather large pale bar at the end of the cell, discal series of eight conjoined spots, 



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