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Expanse of wings, ^ ? ly^^ to 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — Elwes records it from the Karen Hills ; de Niceville says, in the 

 Phayre Museum, Eangoon, there is also a female taken at Mergui in August ; Anderson 

 obtained it at Mergui in November and December, at Pataw Island in January, and on 

 Sullivan Island also in January ; Bingham took it on the Donat Eange in April, and at 

 Thoungyin in March and December ; the type came from Maulmein ; we have both sexes 

 from the Ataran Valley, and it is in the B. M. also from Tavoy, Tenasserim, and 

 the Hawndraw Valley. 



ARHOPALA ALESIA. 



Plate 683, figs. 3, (J , 3a, ? , 3b, (J . 



Arhopala alesia, Felder, Keise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 235, pi. 29, fig. 18 (1864). Bethune-Baker, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 102. 

 Nilasera toiniberleyi, de Niceville, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 462, pi. 40, fig. 4, 9 • 

 Arhopala wimberleyi, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 258 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, brilliant blue. Foreioing with broad black costal 

 band which gradually widens to the apex and runs broadly down the outer margin. 

 Hindwing with the costal and outer marginal bands broadly and evenly black, 

 abdominal fold dark grey, almost blackish ; a fine filamentous tail at the end of vein 2, 

 black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings black, tipped with white on the hinder 

 part of the hindwing. Underside chocolate-grey, markings dark chocolate-brown with 

 whitish edges. Forewing with the base, the entire cell, and the costal space above, up 

 to the discal band suffused with chocolate-brown, three oval spots in the cell, slightly 

 increasing in size outwards, an outwardly oblique spot below the middle of the two 

 outer cell spots, with an erect spot in the next lower interspace, its upper part attached 

 to the other spot in an angular form, a discal nearly straight band of six spots slightly 

 divided by the veins, the upper one small, the next three the largest, their outer ends 

 consequently protruding slightly outwards, a sub- marginal macular band, a dark and 

 pale shade between the two bands, terminal line brown, the space between it and 

 the sub-t6rminal band pale greyish, with a series of small lunular marks. Hindwing 

 with a costal spot at the base, four sub-costal spots rather large, and consequently close 

 together, the fourth inwards on the abdominal margin, followed by three slightly 

 larger spots in a line, the third irregular in shape, a pale curved bar with brown edges 

 at the end of the cell, all the outer spots with pale interiors, a discal series of eight 

 spots, the lower ends of the second touching the upper ends of the discoidal bar and 

 upper inner end of the third spot, the fourth below the third and joined to it, the fifth 

 and sixth joined together, both in curves and well separated from the fourth, the 

 seventh small and round, attached to the inner end of the sixth and well inwards, the 

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