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there is a male in coll. Druce from Ataran, Burma, and a female from the Naga Hills 

 in our own collection, both of which we figure. 



ARHOPALA NICEVILLEI. 

 Plate 677, figs. 2, (J , 2a, ? , 2b, ^ . 

 Arhopala nicevillei, Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 73, pi. 2, fig. 3, ^ . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside violet-blue. Foreioing with the costal and outer 

 marginal lines black. Hindwing with the costal space broadly blackish, the outer 

 margin with a narrow black band, abdominal fold grey, tail long, blackish, tipped with 

 white, anal lobe with a black spot, inwardly edged with white, some white marks in 

 the black border between the anal lobe and the tail, and one or two on the other side 

 of the tail. Cilia of both wings black. Underside rather pale chocolate-brown, the 

 inner markings on both wings dark brown, nearly black and prominent, with pale 

 edges. Forewing with a sub-basal spot in the cell, a larger, somewhat oval spot in the 

 middle and a sub-quadrate, still larger spot, with a small spot above it, at the end, an 

 outwardly oblique spot below the middle of the two outer cell spots, and another 

 outwardly oblique spot well separated from it, in the next lower interspace below the 

 middle cell spot, a discal series of seven spots, the first four conjoined and in a slightly 

 outwardly oblique line, the second and fourth placed a little outwards, the next two, 

 separated from each other, in a line, less oblique, the upper outer end of the third spot 

 near the lower inner end of the second, the seventh spot also separate a little inwards 

 and more outwardly oblique, with a faint mark attached to its lower end. Hindwing 

 with four sub-basal spots, the fourth inwards, followed by three larger spots in a line, 

 the lower like an acute triangle, a curved bar at the end of the cell, with a spot 

 between it and the triangular spot, touching both, a discal series of eight spots, the 

 first two from the costa rather large and square, and black, the lower side of the 

 second spot, touching and half overlapping the upper side of the discoidal bar, 

 the remaining spots pale, very little darker than the ground colour, and edged with 

 dark brown and pale ochreous, spots 3 to 6 conjoined, almost in a straight line, the 

 fifth being a little inwards, the seventh separate, very deeply curved, almost angular, 

 its inner end touching the eighth spot which is inwards and upwards and reaches the 

 abdominal mai'gin at its middle; both wings with sub-marginal conjoined lunular 

 spots, terminal brown line, sub-terminal series of small pale brown lunular marks, the 

 ground colour between the two series pale, a large black anal spot, another in the 

 second interspace, two small black dots in the interspace between them, some metallic 

 blue-green scales on the dots, none on the spots, a white anteciliary thread outside the 

 spots. 



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