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marginal line, edged inwardly by a whitish thread which is most prominent near the 

 anal angle, a sub-marginal series of lunular spots, a black spot at the anal angle, 

 another in the second interspace, with a small spot in the interspace between them, 

 all with a few metallic blue-green scales on them. 



Female. Upperside purplish-brown. Forewing with the discal and sub-median 

 areas purple. Hindwing with a very obscure purple patch in the cell, sometimes 

 obsolescent. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Mergui, Singapore, Philippines. 



Bethune-Baker has very kindly lent us his type for description and figuring, 

 we have not been able to see a female. 



AEHOPALA RAFFLESII. 

 Plate 680, figs. 1, <?, la, ?, lb, ?. 



Arhopala rafflesii, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 248, frontispiece, fig. 136, $ (1890). Bethune- 

 Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 86. 



Narathura ampMmuia, Distant (nee Felder), Rhop. Malayana, p. 267, pi. 21, fig. 10, (J ; 9, ? (1885). 



Arrhopala pseudomuta, de Niceville and Martin (nee Staudinger), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, 

 p. 465. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violaceous-blue, costal and outer marginal lines 

 black. Cilia black, tail black, tipped with white. Underside brown, with a pinkish 

 tint, markings slightly darker than the ground colour, indicated by their pale greyish- 

 white edgings. Forewing with two spots in the cell and one at the end, increasing in 

 size outwards, a spot immediately below the last, and a larger squarish spot adjoining 

 on its inner side in the next lower interspace, a small spot near the costa above the 

 discoidal spot, a discal fascia of six conjoined spots, the first three from the costa 

 almost in a line, the fourth well out, the fifth inwards, the sixth just touching it, in a 

 line with the first four, and an indistinct "short dash in continuation, a sub-maro-inal 

 series of paler spots and indications of an anteciliary series of still paler lunular marks, 

 Iliiidicing with three sub-basal spots in a line, followed by a similar series, the lowest 

 of the second series somewhat lunular, a bar-shaped spot at the end of the cell, and 

 touching it, the lower end of an almost straight band of conjoined spots from the costa 

 to vein 3, touching this band on its outside is the continuation of the discal band, 

 which is bent inwards in its middle and then curves inwards in three lunules to the 

 abdominal margin ; in some examples these markings are very obscure and cannot well 

 be distinguished, but in some of the female examples they appear to be as herein 

 indicated, the sub-marginal and anteciliary series as in the forewing with three black 

 sub-terminal spots capped with metallic blue-green scales, near the anal .angle. 



