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middle of the two outer discoidal spots, a discal series of eight spots, all well separated, 

 the upper four round and in a gentle outward curve, the next two a little elongated 

 and inwardly oblique, the last two small and close together ; a sub-marginal series of 

 pale squarish spots, edged on both sides with whitish, and indications of a paler similar 

 series close to the margin. Hindwing with three sub-basal small spots in a line and a 

 fourth small spot near the abdominal margin near the base, followed by three larger 

 spots in a line, the middle one inside the middle of the cell (a twin spot), an elongated 

 spot at the end of the cell, with a small elongated spot between it and the lowest spot 

 of the second series ; a discal series of eight spots curving with the shape of the outer 

 margin, the fifth a little inwards, the lowest three lunular ; the marginal series like that 

 on the forewiug, but with three sub-terminal black spots near the anal angle, all capped 

 with pale blue ; a terminal fine white line. 



Female. Upperside whitish. Forewing with some blue suffusion on the basal 

 portion and along the hinder margin, a broad black costal and outer marginal border, a 

 large black spot at the end of the cell, and three sub-apical, elongated black spots, the 

 upper one more or less merged in the apical border. Hindwing with the costal and 

 outer marginal areas suffused with blackish, the inner area cyaneous. Underside as in 

 the male. Antennae black ; palpi with the last joint black, the basal joints white, with 

 a brown line above, head brown, eyes ringed with white ; body brown above, with 

 cyaneous pubescence, grey beneath. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 2^*0 to 2^ inches. 



Habitat. — Silhet, Sikkim, Assam, Burma. 



Distribution. — de Niceville records it from Sikkim, Cachar, and Chittagoug Hill 

 Tracts, also from Jalpaiguri, he says it occurs in the Sikkim Tarai, but not in the hills, 

 Doherty from Margherifca, Upper Assam, we have it from Silhet and the Khasia Hills, 

 and it is in the B. M. also from Bhutan and Tenasserim. 



ARHOPALA ANARTE. 

 Plate 675, figs. 3, $,2,3., ? , 3b, $ . 



Amblypodia anarie, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 5, pi. 3, figs. 16, 17, $ (1862). Doherty, Journ. 



As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 417. 

 Arhopala anarte, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 260 (1890). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 



1891, p. 34. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 81. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside glistening pale blue, shading darker towards the 

 margins, but with no actual bands, but the margins are broadly dark ; and the 

 abdominal fold of the hindwing is grey, costal and marginal line brown, tail brown, 

 tipped with white. Cilia brown. Underside rather pale ochreous-brown, spots large, 



