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black border, and the apex of the hindwing below is not lilac, the blue above seems 

 also darker and richer ; from aida, de Niceville, it differs in the strong violet gloss and 

 the large and crowded annulations, occupying most of the cell of the forewing and 

 extending thence nearly to the costa on the underside ; the upperside is very similar ; 

 the figure of A. mirahella was omitted by accident. 



We have found both sexes in the B. M., standing unnamed, they came from the 

 late Colonel Bingham's collection, the male is from Mergui and the female from 

 Tenasserim, and we figure them both; they are probably Doherty's types, and 

 correspond in description and locality. 



ARHOPALA SUBPASCIATA. 



Plate 683, figs. 1, <J , la, ? , lb, ? . 



Nilasera suhfasciata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 532, pi. 49, fig. 2. 



Arhopala mhfasclata, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 418. de Niceville, Butt, of India, 

 iii. p. 260 (1890). Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 80. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale cobalt-blue, with a slight purplish tint. Forewing 

 with the costal and outer marginal bands narrowly black, broadest at the apex. Hindwing 

 with a similar but somewhat paler outer marginal band, abdominal fold whitish, tail 

 blackish. Underside chocolate-brown, bands and spots rather darker than the ground 

 colour, edged with white. Forewing with the entire space below the median vein pale ; 

 somewhat whitish ; a rather large, round, sub-basal spot in the cell, a bar across the 

 middle, and another, a little larger, at the end ; an outwardly oblique spot below the 

 middle of the outer cell spots, with its lower end rounded, a somewhat square spot 

 attached to its inner edge in the next lower interspace, a discal almost erect band of 

 six square conjoined spots, the uppermost one near the costa small, the second and 

 fourth with small, round, inner protrusions, the fifth a little outwardly placed, a small 

 round spot below the sixth ; a sub-marginal series of small lunular marks. Hindwing 

 with a white smear right across the upper part of the wing, four sub-basal spots, 

 followed by four similar spots, a bottle-shaped spot at the end of the cell, four or five 

 small spots between it and the costa, a large distorted spot attached below the 

 discoidal spot, a discal, outwardly curved distorted series of seven spots, a large 

 blackish sub-terminal spot in the first interspace, a small anal spot, a larger and paler 

 spot between, all sparsely sprinkled with metallic blue scales and inwardly edged by a 

 whitish line which becomes more or less obscure as it runs up inside the margin. 



Female, like the male above and below, the black marginal bands broader on 

 the upperside. Antennae black ; head and body concolorous with the wings above and 

 below. 



Expanse of wings, $ l-j% to 1^^, $ ly% inches. 



