188 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



Antennae black, frons with a white stripe on each side ; head and body above and below 

 concolorous with the wings, except the abdomen, which is ochreous-white beneath. 

 Cilia black, tipped with white. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male, with a violet tint. Forewing with the 

 costa very broadly blackish, the outer margin narrowly so. Hindwing with a broad 

 blackish costal space, and narrow outer marginal band. Anal lobe as in the male, the 

 white spot capping the black one larger, and sometimes a small white spot at the root 

 of the tail and two minute white dots in the cilia between the two white spots. Under- 

 side as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ,? $ 2 inches. 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo. 



Distribution. — It is in the Druce collection from Kina Balu, Borneo ; the types 

 came from Singapore, de Niceville records it from Tenasserim, Sikkim and the 

 Khasia Hills, Bethune-Baker from Malacca and Sumatra, and it is in the B. M. also from 

 the Ataran and the Yoonyalin Valley. 



ARHOPALA ATOSIA. 

 Plate 684, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, $ . 



Amhhjpodia aiosia, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 9, pi. 2, figs. 8, 9, ? (1863). Druce, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 353. Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1877, p. 548. 

 Arhopala atosia, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 241, frontispiece, fig. 138, ^ (1890). Elwes, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 629. H. H. Druce, id. 1895, p. 589. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. 



Soc. 1903, p. 87. 

 Narathura atosia, Distant, Rhop. Malayans, p. 265, pi. 23, figs. 6, (J ; 5, $ (1885). 

 Arrhopala atosia, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 465. 

 Amblypodia aricia, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 124, pi. i. fig. 15. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violaceous-blue, with a large patch of differently 

 arranged scales in the centre of the forewing, showing darkly through in certain lights, 

 but not altering the colour of the wing. Foreioing with the costal and outer marginal 

 lines black. Hindwing with the costa broadly black, and an outer marginal black line, 

 tail black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings brown, with whitish tips. Under- 

 side dark greyish-brown, markings slightly darker than the ground colour, with 

 pale edgings. Forewing with the hinder marginal area broadly pale, an oval sub- 

 basal spot in the cell, a larger similar spot in the middle and a still larger sub-quadrate 

 spot at the end ; au oblique spot below the middle of the two outer spots, and an erect 

 spot in the inter.space below, its outer upper end touching the lower end of the 

 oblique spot, a small sub-costal spot above each of the two outer cell spots, a discal 

 band of seven spots, the uppermost one small, the second outwards attached to the third 

 and fourth in au outwardly oblique line, the fourth being shifted somewhat outwards. 



