15G LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



the series deeply curved at its termination, on to the abdominal margin, the first dark, 

 the largest, has a small sub-costal spot on its outer side, quite separated from it, the 

 second also dark, shifted outwards, all the remaining spots pale, the third and fourth 

 both inwardly oblique, the fifth and sixth in a line, outwardly oblique, the upper outer 

 end of the fifth touching the lower inner end of the fourth, the seventh curved, the 

 outer portion of the curve touching the inner side of the sixth, the inner portion of the 

 curve joined to the long eighth spot which bends in on to the abdominal margin, a sub- 

 marginal row of pale brown lunular marks, marginal line brown, edged inwardly by a 

 pale line, a black spot on the anal lobe, another in the second interspace, sometimes 

 another, smaller, in the interspace between them, all capped with greenish-bronzy 

 metallic scales, a narrow, suffused, brown stripe on the costa. 



Female. Upperside silvery -blue, glistening in certain lights. Forewing with 

 costal and outer marginal blackish bands, which are narrow at the base of the costa and 

 at the hinder angle, and broaden rapidly towards the apex. Iltncholng with the 

 costal space broadly blackish, the outer margin narrow, ending in a blackish patch at 

 the anal angle. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 2-^q to 2^-^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula. 



Distribution. — The type came from Maulmein, de Niceville records it from the 

 Thoungyin Forest, Elwes from Tenasserim and Perak ; we have it from King Island, 

 Mergui Archipelago. 



ARHOPALA CAMDEO. 

 Plate 675, figs. 2, <? , 2a, $, 2b, ^. 



Amhlypodia cmndeo, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 41, pi. la, fig. 6, $ (1857). Hewitson, Cat. 



Lye. B. M. p. 5, pi. 3, figs. 25, 26, <J (1862). 

 Ntlasera camdeo, "Wood-Mason and de ISTiceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 370. 

 Arhopala camdeo, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 280, pi. 96, $ (1888). de Niceville, Butt, of India, 



iii. p. 257 (1890). Doberty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1891, p. 34. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



1893, p. 300. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 46. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale lilac. Fureivivg with the inner portion pale, 

 sometimes more or less whitish-lilac, a large black spot at the end of the cell, costal and 

 outer marginal line finely black. Hindwlng with blackish suff'usion on the costal 

 portion, outer marginal line finely black, a rather long filamentous tail at the end of 

 vein 2, and a very short projection at the end of vein 1, both black. Cilia black, tipped 

 with white. Underside grey, markings dark brown, edged with white. Forewing with 

 the lower disc pale, sometimes nearly whitish, a small round spot in the cell near the 

 base, two conjoined larger spots in the middle, three (sometimes two) conjoined spots at 

 the end, the lower the largest ; an outwardly oblique, outwardly angled spot below the 



