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of the second touching the upper ends of the discoidal bar and the third spot, this 

 conjoined with the other four spots in an outward curve, the fourth and sixth shifted 

 outwards, the seventh angular as usual, both wings with a brown marginal line, a sub- 

 marginal, somewhat lunular band, and between them a series of smaller lunular 

 marks. 



Female. Upperside brighter blue, and paler. Forewing with a black spot at the 

 end of the cell running into the broad black costal band which widens gradually from 

 the base, is very broad at the apex and is continued broadly and evenly down the outer 

 margin. Hindwing with the costa and outer margin very broadly black. Underside 

 as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? Ig inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — The type, a male, is marked India, which probably means Maulmein, 

 both sexes are in the B. M. from Tavoy Valley, collected by Bingham, they correspond 

 exactly with the type, and are herein described and figured. 



ARHOPALA HEWITSONI. 

 Plate 681, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ^ . 



Arhopala heioitsoiii, Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 132, pi. 3, fig. 9, ^ ; pi. 5, figs. 23, 



23a (genitalia). 

 Amhlypodia atrax, Hewitson (part), p. 13, pi. 7, figs. 80, 82, $ . 

 Satadra atrax, de Niceville (nee Hewitson), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 39. 

 Arhopala atrax, de Niceville (nee Hewitson), Butt, of India, iii. p. 246 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. 



Soe. 1892, p. 630. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soe. 1891, p. 47. Betham, id. p. 181. 



Watson, id. 1897, p. 662. Mackinaon and de Nieeville, id. 1898, p. 382. Hannyngton, id. 1910, 



p. 366. 

 Arhopala {Amhhjpodia) atrax, Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 532. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dull lilac colour. Forewing, costal band blackish, 

 narrow, outer marginal blackish band rather broad, even in width. Hindwing nearly 

 all blackish-brown tinged with lilac, with a lilac-blue patch in the cell space ; filamen- 

 tous tail of moderate length, brown tipped with white. Cilia white, with a brown base. 

 Underside greyish-brown, markings a little darker than the ground colour, with pale 

 whitish edges. Forewing with three spots, all sometimes more or less elongated, 

 increasing in size outwards, near the base of the cell, in the middle and at the end, the 

 last closing the cell, an outwardly oblique spot below the last two cell spots, a spot some- 

 what elongated hindwards in the next lower interspace, and a small round spot abos'e 

 the middle of the two outer cell spots ; a slightly outwardly curved, discal, even baud 

 of six conjoined spots followed by a disconnected spot ; a marginal pale brown line, a 

 .sub-marginal band of rather thick lunular marks, and between them a band of paler 

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