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margin, the spots forming the curve being lunular, a sub-marginal angular brown line, 

 a series of very indistinct anteciliary lunules and some brown terminal suffusion. 



Female. Upperside. Forewbig brighter purple than in the male, with very broad 

 blackish costal and outer marginal borders. Hindwlng nearly all suffused with 

 blackish, the blue colour being confined more or less to the cell area. Underside as in 

 the male. Antennae black, tipped with orange ; palpi black above, grey below ; head 

 and body blackish-brown above, white beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1^ to 1-/q- inches. 



Habitat. — Assam, South India, Burma, Philippines. 



Distribution. — Bethune-Baker records it from the Philippines, he says the Indian 

 examples are identical ; he also records it from Travancore and Kanara, Elwes from the 

 Naga Hills and E. Pegu, Watson from Mysore, Moore from Nepal, de Niceville from 

 Cachar, Doherty from Margherita in Upper Assam, we have received many examples of 

 both sexes from the Khasia Hills, and it is in the B. M. also from Karwar. 



ARHOPALA ALEMON. 



Plate 680, figs. 3, <J , 3a, ? , 3b, $ . 



Arliopala alemon, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 371, pi. F, figs. 20, ^ ; 21, J; 

 id. Watson, p. 48. Bethuae-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 133, pi. 5, figs. 24, 24a 

 (genitalia). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dull purple. Forewing with a costal blackish band, 

 widening to the apex, then down the outer margin in an even band of moderate width. 

 Hindwing with the costal space blackish, the outer margin more narrowly blackish ; 

 abdominal fold grey. Cilia black, tipped with white, tail black, with a white tip. 

 Underside pale greyish-brown, markings brown edged with white. Forewing with a 

 small sub-basal spot in the cell, another, slightly larger in the middle, and a larger 

 spot at the end ; an outwardly very oblique spot below it, and an erect spot in the 

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

 upper one very small, the next five conjoined and nearly straight down the wing to 

 vein 2, the third and fourth being very slightly outwards, the seventh spot 

 disconnected and somewhat inwards ; a double series of sub-marginal spots, the outer 

 one very pale, marginal line brown, with a pale inner line ; the hinder marginal space 

 pale. Hindwing with four sub-basal spots, the fourth slightly inwards, followed by 

 three spots in a line, the upper one the largest, a lunular bar at the end of the cell, a 

 discal, outwardly curved series of seven spots, in three irregularly shaped pieces, the 

 first two conjoined, the third commencing a little outwards, and joined in an irregular 

 line to the fourth, fifth and sixth, the seventh, a curved spot somewhat inwards, a 

 sub-marginal series of lunular marks, marginal line brown, with a whitish inner line. 



