176 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



with a series of pale lunular marks attached to it, a large black anal spot, a small black 

 sub-terminal spot in each of the two following interspaces, powdered with pale blue 

 metallic scales ; all the spots on both wings much smaller than usual. 



Female. Upperside of a lighter and brighter purplish colour. Forewing with 

 the costal, apical, and outer marginal black bands broader, a black bar at the end of 

 the cell, running into the costal band. liindwing with the costal space broadly 

 blackish, the outer marginal black band sometimes macular. Underside as in the male, 

 the bands usually broader. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? li^ to 1-^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — The type came from Tilin Yaw ; the description and figures are 

 from examples fi-om the same locality, kindly lent by Bethune-Baker ; de Niceville 

 records it also from the Meplay Valley, the Donat Eange and the Thoungyin forests ; it 

 is in the B. M. also from the Shan States, Ataran Valley, Amherst Road and the 

 Hawndraw Valley. 



ARHOPALA ATRAX. 



Plate 681, figs. 1, .J , la, ? , lb, $ . 



Amblypodia atrax, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 13 (nee pi. 7, figs. 80 and 82, J ) (1862). Moore, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 774. Hewitson, III. Diurn. Lap. Lye. p. 13 (1869). 

 Satadra atrax, Moore, Journ. As. Soe. Bengal, 1884, p. 39. 

 Arlwpala atrax, Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soe. 1903, p. 130, pi. 3, fig. 8, ^ . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purplish-blue, shining in certain lights. Forewing with 

 a narrow costal black band, outer marginal black band about twice as broad. Hindwing 

 with the costal space and outer marginal line black, tail black, tipped with white, 

 indications of a blackish spot on the margin on each side of the tail, abdominal fold 

 grey. Cilia black, with white tips. Underside pale brown, with a lilac tint, markings 

 darker brown, edged with white. Forewing with three oval cell spots, increasing in 

 size outwards, an outwardly oblique spot below the last, and another in the next lower 

 interspace, slightly outwardly oblique below the middle cell spot, well separated 

 from each other ; a discal band of seven spots, the first four conjoined, outwardly 

 oblique, the second and fourth a little outwards, the fifth inwards, its upper outer end 

 almost touching the lower inner end of the fourth, and joined to the sixth outwardly 

 obliquely, the seventh similarly inwards and similarly oblique, with a small mark 

 attached to its lower end, the hinder marginal space below and between these spots 

 pale. Hind icing with four sub-basal spots almost in a line, the fourth being a little 

 inwards, followed by three slightly larger oval spots in a line, the third of irregular 

 shape, an outwardly curved bar at the end of the cell, with a small spot attached to 

 its lower end, a discal series of eight spots, the first two below the costa, the lower ends 



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