182 LEPILOPTEBA INLICA. 



three capped with metallic blue-green scales ; abdomen ochreous-white on the underside. 

 Antennae black, frons with a white stripe on each side. 



Female. Upperside pale violet-blue, shining in certain lights, both wings with 

 broad costal and outer marginal blackish borders, broadest at the apex of forewing, the 

 outer marginal band on the hindwing narrowing hindwards. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1^ to 1 1% inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula, Borneo. 



Distribution. — The type came from Johore in the Malay Peninsula ; it is in the 

 Druce coll. (from which our description and figures are taken) from Bankasoon and 

 Meetan, Burma ; Druce records it from Borneo, and we have it from Perak. 



AEHOPALA MIHABELLA. 



Plate 682, figs. 4, <? , 4a, 9 , 4b, i . 



Arhopala mirdbella, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 420. Bethune- Baker, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. 1903, p. 61. 



Imago. — Male. Above bright violet-blue, dull violet in some lights, over fully 

 five-sixths of the forewing, the marginal black band moderate and nearly equal on 

 both wings ; below bright fuscous, glossed with pale violet, the markings large, 

 numerous, distinct and crowded, consisting of deep brown spots, paler in the middle, 

 set in distinct violet-white rings or parenthetic lines. Forewing with the three usual 

 cell spots large, a double series of costal marks, the transverse band much broken, the 

 spot in the lower radial space (the fourth) extended, no distinct marks below the cell, 

 two sub-marginal violet-whitish lines, the inner lunular, the outer straight, obscure. 

 Hindwing with the basal spots annular, the basal-costal one obsolescent, the transverse 

 discal band with only the first pair of spots continuous (the second touching the 

 terminal cell spot which is large, parenthetic), the others irregular, the third dislocated 

 outwardly, the fifth inwardly ; two sub-marginal lunular lines, the anal angle with 

 three small black spots, bordered with metallic green, behind which is a narrow 

 irrorated whitish fascia. 



Female. With the blue somewhat paler and covering only half the forewing and 

 the hindwing from the costal vein (basally) to the upper sub-costal, almost to the 

 sub-median, the dark border rather wide ; both sexes have a slender tail, tipped with 

 white, and a small distinct lobe. 



Expanse of wings, $ % l\ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — A male from Mergui and a female from ]\Iyitta. 



Nearest to A. alitoeus, Hewitson, from Celebes, but seems to be darker below, 

 with a broad black border above : from achelous, Hewitson, it also differs in the broader 



