170 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



from the discoidal spot ; a post-discal series of spots and a sub-terminal series, the 

 small anal lobe with a small black spot, followed by two sub -terminal small black spots 

 capped with metallic blue scales. ' 



Female. Upperside of a pale dull lilac, with a purplish tint. Forew'mg with the 

 Ijlack costal band broad, widening outwards to the apex, the outer marginal baud 

 narrow. Hindicing with the costal space rather broadly blackish, the outer marginal 

 Ijaud broader and paler than on the forewing. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1-^ to l-y^, $ 1^^- to l-j% inches. 



Habitat. — B urma. 



Distribution. — We have both sexes from Ataran ; Hewitson recorded it from 

 Maulmein ; de Niceville records it from King Island, Mergui Archipelago ; Bethune- 

 Baker from Tenasserim, and it is in the B. M. also from the Shan States, Chin Hills, 

 Beeling, Meplay Valley and Toungoo. 



ARHOPALA AROA. 



Plate 679, figs. 2, ,J , 2a, ? , 2b, <J . 



Amhlypodia aroa, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 13, pi. 2, fig. 12, ^ (1862). Butler, Trans. 



Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1877, p. 548. 

 Narathura aroa, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 266, pi. 23, fig. 17, ^ (1885). 

 Arhopala aroa, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 244 (1890). H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, 



p. 590. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 85. 

 Arrlwpala aroa, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 465. 

 Amhlypodia pryeri, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 121. 

 Arhopala pryeri, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 590. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside very dark purplish-blue. Forewing v\'ith fine black 

 costal and outer marginal line. Hindicing with the costal space black, and a fine black 

 outer marginal line as in the forewing. Cilia black, with whitish tips ; tail black, rather 

 long, very narrow, tipped with white. Underside brown, markings darker brown, pale 

 edged. Forewing with the hinder marginal area pale ; a small oval sub-basal spot in 

 the cell, a very slightly larger one in the middle, and a still larger one at the end, with 

 a spot below it and another in the nest lower interspace below the middle cell spot, 

 well separated from each other, a fairly even discal band of six conjoined spots, the 

 uppermost spot small, the others almost square and of even size. Rindwing with four 

 sub-basal spots rather close together, the uppermost one being inside the cell, the two 

 next almost in a line with it, the fourth spot well inwards, close to the abdominal 

 margin, followed by three larger spots in a line, the lowest one almost triangular, a 

 larger sub-quadrate spot closing the cell, a discal series of eight spots, the first two con- 

 joined one above the other, the lower inner end of the second almost touching the 



