184 LEPIDOPTEEA INDIC'A. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — The type came from Tavoy, de Niceville records it from Beeling 

 and Myitta in the Teuasserim Valley, we have it from Ataran. 



ARHOPALA ALBOPUNCTATA. 



Plate 683, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ? . 



Amhhjjiodia albopunciata, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 14c, pi. 3b, figs. 43, i4, ^ (1869). 

 Narafliura alhopunctata, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 44. 



Arlwpala alhopunctata, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 261, frontispiece, fig. 126, J (1890). 

 Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 631. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 60. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside metallic light blue, almost morpho-blue. Forewing 

 with the costal line narrowly black, a well defined apical and outer marginal black 

 border broad at the apex, narrowing on the costa till about a third from the apex, and 

 narrowing hindwards on the outer margin, its inner margin being circular and well 

 defined. Cilia brown. Hlndwing with the costal space pale and somewhat greyish, 

 outer marginal line black, tail black, short ; a black sub-terminal lunular mark in the 

 interspaces on each side of it. Cilia greyish-rufous, with a black spot in it at the anal 

 angle ; abdominal fold greyish. Underside rich chocolate-brown, markings white. 

 Forewing with the hinder marginal space broadly pale, six lines in pairs crossing the 

 cell ; the four first parallel with each other ; of the outer two, one is just inside the end 

 and the other outside, their lower ends encircling towards each other, the third line has 

 a spot abo\e it, the fourth, fifth and sixth two, and there are two spots, in the space 

 between the last mentioned four spots, there are four series of linear marks right across 

 the outer portion of the wing and two linear marks below the fourth and fifth cell 

 lines, all these marks cover the whole of the dark portion of the wing at almost equal 

 distances apart, except the terminal and sub-terminal series which are paler than the 

 others and are closer together. Hindwing with three rather prominent sub-costal spots 

 larger than the others, three small sub-basal spots, a pair of irregular lines across the 

 middle of the cell and two similar ones at the end, and apparently six irregular 

 outwardly curved series of short lines, some of which are little more than spots in pairs 

 covering the whole surface of the wing and very diflicult to describe ; a sub-marginal 

 series of lunular marks, a small black anal spot, and two larger, somewhat lunular 

 black sub-terminal marks in the next two interspaces outwardly edged by a white line 

 and capped with metallic blue scales. Cilia grey, with whitish tips. Antennae black ; 

 head and body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside duller in colour than the male. Foreiving with the black 

 costal line and apical black band broader. Ilindicing with indistinct sub-terminal, 

 blackish, lunular marks as in the male. 



