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pear-shaped ; both wings with browu marginal line and inner pale line, sub-marginal 

 band of thick lunules, commencing on each wing with a detached sub-costal spot, and 

 between them a series of small luuular marks, a large black spot on the anal lobe, 

 a black spot in each of the two following interspaces, the lobe spot capped with metallic 

 blue scales, the other spots covered and almost obliterated by similar scales, the brown 

 cilia with a white dot on the inner side of the tail, and edged with white between the 

 tail and the lobe. 



Female. Upperside paler and more violet. Foreiving with a broad black apical 

 band, narrowing on the costa to the base, evenly but less broadly down the outer 

 margin. Hiridwing with the costal space black, the outer margin with a narrow black 

 band, abdominal fold blackish-grey. Underside as in the male, the markings darker 

 and more prominent. 



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



Habitat. — Burma. 



Described and figured from a pair in the B. M., taken by Bingham in the 

 Tenasserim Valley in April, 1893. 



ARHOPALA SELTA. 



Plate 679, figs. 1, ^, la, ? , lb, $. 



Amblypodia sella, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 14f, pi. 3a, figs. 36, 37, ? (1869). 

 Satrada sella, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 38. 



Arhopala sella, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 245 (1890). Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 1903, p. 84. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brilliant, somewhat shining purple-blue. Forewmg 

 with costa and outer margin with black narrow bands broadest at the apex, but other- 

 wise of fairly even breadth. Hindwing with a somewhat broader but paler outer 

 marginal black band, tail black, tipped with white. Underside pale brown, with a pink 

 tint, spots and bands pale edged, slightly darker than the ground colour. Foi^ewing 

 with the hinder marginal space broadly pale, a small sub-basal spot in the cell, a larger 

 somewhat oval spot in the middle, and a still larger one at the end, a small costal spot 

 above the discoidal spot, an outwardly oblique spot below the two outer cell spots, and 

 a spot in the next lower interspace below the middle cell spot ; a discal band of seven 

 conjoined spots, the upper one small, sometimes absent, the others of fairly equal size, 

 very nearly in an even row, the fifth spot being just a little inwards, the lower end of 

 this row is very close to the sub-marginal series composed of spots somewhat divided 

 by the veins. Hindwing with four sub-basal spots, the third a little outwards, the 

 fourth well inwards near the abdominal margin, followed by three spots in a line ; a 

 sub-quadrate spot at the end of the cell, and another somewhat similar spot below it, 

 from its inner lower end ; a discal series of eight spots as in A. agaba, but well separated 

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