AMBLYPODIINjE. 191 



Expanse of wings, ^ 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Margherita, Upper Assam. 



We have not seen this species, but have copied Doherty's figure and description. 



ARHOPALA (ENEA. 



Plate 685, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, ? . 



Amblypodia anea, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 14e, pi. 3c, fig. 55, ^ (1869). 

 Arhopala anea, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 243(1890). Swinhoe, Traas. Eiit. Soc. 1893, 

 p. 300. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 130, pi. 5, figs. 21, 21a (genitalia). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violet-blue, costal and outer marginal bands 

 narrowly black. Cilia blackish, edged with whitish ; a very fine, rather long filamentous 

 tail at the end of vein 2 of the hindwing, black, tipped with white ; a small anal lobe. 

 Underside clear ochre-brown, all the markings very obscure. Forewlng. In some 

 examples none of the markings are visible except some faint indications of a nearly 

 straight discal band of conjoined spots very slightly darker than the ground colour, in 

 others there are indications of a small spot near the base of the cell, a larger transverse 

 one in the middle, and a still larger one at the end, a narrow discal band and a sub- 

 marginal band. liindw'uig with a blackish sub-costal spot near the base and indications 

 of the three cell spots as in the forewing and discal and sub-terminal bands. 



Female. Upperside much paler violet-blue. Foreuxiag with very broad costal and 

 outer marginal black bands, and a black spot at the end of the cell touching the costal 

 band. Hindwing nearly all black, some slight blue colour in and about the cell, varying 

 in extent in different examples. Underside like the male. Antennae black ; palpi 

 black above, grey beneath ; head and body concolorous with the wings. 



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



Genitalia. — With the tegumen excavated and open at the apex, and the hooks 

 jointed at the elbow are from that point long and slender ; the clasps are very deep, 

 excavated at the tips, forming a sort of jaw, the upper part of which is resolved into a 

 long, curved, sharp hook. The penis is long and slender. 



HABiTAT.^Sikkim, Assam. 



Distribution. — We have it from Sikkim and from the Khasia Hills ; the species is 

 local, but not uncommon where it occurs ; it is in the B. M. also from Mussuri and 

 Bhutan. 



ARHOPALA ABSEUS. 



Plate 685, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, $ , 3b, ? . 



Amblypodia alseus, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 9, pi. 5, figs. 41, 42, 9 (1862) ; id. 111. Diurn. Lep. 

 Lye. p. 10 (1863). Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 353. 



