178 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



marks ; the lower portion of the wing pale in colour. Hindwing with the markings 

 more indistinct ; four sub-basal spots, followed by three similar spots, a lunular mark 

 at the end of the cell, with two other lunular marks a little inwards connected with its 

 lower end, an irregular discal band of eight spots, the first two from the costa and the 

 seventh shifted a little inside the others, the eighth being a round spot a little more 

 inwards on the abdominal margin ; the terminal line and sub-terminal series as in the 

 forewing, anal lobe small, containing a black spot, capped narrowly with white, and 

 some whitish and metallic blue scales at the ends of the three lowest interspaces ; 

 indications of an anteciliary whitish line on both wings, plainest on the hindwing. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing with the lilac colour brighter, the costal blackish- 

 brown border very broad, a black spot at the end of the cell merged in it, the outer 

 margin broadly suffused with blackish-brown, leaving the discal, medial, and sub-medial 

 portions lilac-blue. Hindtcing uniformly brown, but often with a lilac tint. Under- 

 side as in the male. Antennae black ; palpi black above, white beneath ; head and 

 body concolorous with the wings. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? l-^^ to l/g- inches. 



Habitat. — India, Burma. 



Distribution. — Recorded by de Niceville from Orissa, Chota Nagpur, Dehra Dun, 

 Bholahat, in the Malda District, Sikkim, Jalpaiguri, Calcutta, Nilgiris (lower slopes) ; 

 by Elwes from Beruardmyo, by Betham from the Central Provinces, by Watson from 

 Chin Lushai and the Chin Hills, by Mackinnon and de Niceville from Mussuri, by 

 Manders from the Shan States, by Hannyngton from Kumaon. We took it at Pach- 

 mari, a small hill-station near Poona, and it is in our collection from Simla and Ranchi. 



Note. — This species has hitherto passed as A. atrax, Hewitson, in Indian collections. 

 Hewitson described two species as male and female, he figured the female only ; this 

 latter, a commoner form, Bethune-Baker has described as liew'itsoni ; we have examples 

 of both sexes, it is no doubt quite distinct from Hewitson's male atrax, of which there 

 are examples of both sexes from Burma in the B. M. 



ARHOPALA AGRATA. 



Plate 681, figs. 3, <? , 3a, <J. 



Arhopala agrata, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 251, footnote ; frontispiece, fig. 137, ^ (1890). 

 Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 632. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 123. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings extremely deep purple, almost black, of the 

 exact shade of A. teesta, mihi. Cilia black. Hindwing with the abdominal margin pale. 

 Underside, both wings dull brown, all the markings very indistinct, but very slightly darker 

 than the ground, outlined obscurely with grey. Forewing with the usual three spots in 



