172 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



series very faintly indicated, all the markings more or less indistinct ; a small black 

 spot in the anal lobe, marked on each side with pale blue, and a few scattered and 

 very indistinct, blue scales between it and the tail. 



Female. Upperside. Foreicing duller and paler than in the male, with very 

 broad costal and outer marginal blackish borders, a black spot at the end of the cell, 

 merged into the costal border. Hindwing. Upperside wdth the outer half more or 

 less blackish, the colour gradually changing to dull purplish-blue on the inner half. 

 Underside paler than in the male, markings similarly disposed, but more prominent. 

 Antennae black ; palpi black above, whitish beneath ; head and body concolorous 

 with the wings. 



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



Habitat. — South India. 



Distribution. — Watson recorded it from Mysore, Hampson from the Nilgiris, 

 de Niceville from Travancore, the types came from Kanara ; we have many examples 

 of both sexes from Karwar. 



ARHOPALA MINDANENSIS. 

 Plate 679, figs. 4, <? , 4a, <J . 

 Arliopala mindanensis, Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 62, pi. i. fig. 24, <J . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purplish-blue, with a violet tint, sub-lustrous, 

 almost purplish-brown in certain lights, with the costal and outer marginal bands 

 shading into blackish-brown rather broadly. Hindwing with the costal space and outer 

 margin also shading into blackish-brown, abdominal fold pale, tail black, tipped with 

 white. Cilia blackish-brown, with a little white at the tips near the anal angle. 

 Underside brownish-grey, markings whitish-edged, a little darker than the ground 

 colour. Foreioing with the middle of the hinder marginal space pale, three rather 

 large oval spots in the cell, increasing in size outwards, an outwardly oblique spot 

 below the middle of the two outer cell spots, a spot in the next lower interspace 

 below the middle cell spot, a spot on the costa above the discoidal spot and touching 

 it, a discal series of six conjoined spots, the first a little inwards, the fourth outwards, 

 a curved mark below the sixth spot, touching it. Hindwing with four rather large 

 sub-basal spots, the fourth inwards on the abdominal margin near the base, followed 

 by three rather larger spots in a line, the first two oval, the third sub-triangular, a bar 

 at the end of the cell, constricted in its middle, a discal well-curved series of eight 

 spots, the first two from the costa, touching the discoidal spot, the third with its upper 

 inner end touching the lower outer end of the second, the fourth a little outwards, the 

 fifth also a little more outwards, the sixth inwards, the seventh curved, and the 

 eighth continuing the curve to the abdominal margin, both wings with brown outer 



