168 LEPIBOPTEBA INDICA. 



however, generally of a duller hue. Underside more glossy, the ground colour more 

 variegated with pale and dark shades, there is usually a whitish smear on the apical 

 space of the forewing, and the bands and spots are, as in its male, much larger and 

 more prominent. 



Expanse of wings, $ ^ 1^ to 2 inches. 



Genitalia with a good-sized tegumen, the hooks of which are strongly curved at 

 their bases, the clasps have a long arm-like extension, the penis is stout, rather long, 

 with a trumpet-shaped orifice. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma. 



Distribution. — The type came from Sikkim, Elwes records it from the Naga Hills, 

 Doherty from Margherita, in Upper Assam, Bethune-Baker from the Shan States ; we 

 have received many examples of both sexes from the Khasia Hills, and it is in the B. M. 

 also from Bhutan and Yenwatang, Upper Burma. 



ARHOPALA ANTUEA, nov. 

 Plate 678, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, <? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark rich violet-blue. Furewing with the costal and 



outer marginal lines thickly black. Hindwing with the costal space black, an outer 



marginal very narrow black band, abdominal space blackish-grey, anal lobe well formed, 



with a black spot capped with some rather prominent white scales, tail black, tipped 



with white, with a white dot on each side of it, and traces of a white line between it 



and the anal lobe. Cilia black. Underside chocolate-brown, with an ochreous tint, 



markings darker brown, edged with pale ochreous-grey. Forewing with three rather 



large spots in the cell, gradually increasing in size outwards, the first two oval, the end 



spot sub-quadrate, a square spot near the costa above it, a small round spot below the 



middle of the two last cell spots, the central space below it pale, with a brown mark in 



it below the middle cell spot and quite disconnected, a discal band of six conjoined spots, 



the first four of equal size forming an outwardly oblique band with a slight outward 



curve, the fifth spot smaller than the others, half inwards, the sixth below it in a 



slightly oblique line, a small detached spot below the sixth spot. Hindwing with four 



rather large sub-basal spots, the third a little outwards, out of line, followed by three 



larger spots in a line, the third almost triangular, a rather large outwardly curved 



bar at the end of the cell, with a short ochreous-grey line below its inner end, a discal 



series of eight spots, all rather large, the first six in pairs and of uniform size, the lower 



inner end of the second touching the outer upper end of the cell bar, the third and 



fourth outwards, not connected with the second, but joined to the fifth and sixth, the 



fifth being half inwards, the seventh well curved, its outer portion touching the inner 



side of the sixth, its inner end touching the point of the long eighth spot which is 



