192 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Satadra abseus, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 41. 



Arhopala ahueus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 242 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1891, p. 47, and 1897, p. 662. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 629. Bethune-Baker, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. 190.!, p. 112. 

 Arliopala ampliea, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. p. 234, pi. 29, fig. 19 (1865). H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1895, p. 589. de NicuviDe and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 465. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark bright blue, veins more or less black. Forewing 

 with broad black borders, gradually widening from the base of the costa to the apex of 

 the wing, down the outer margin curving and liroadeuing slightly at the hinder angle. 

 Jfiiidwing with the costal and outer marginal black band also broad and of a faii-ly 

 uniform breadth, the black colour running as broadly up the abdominal margin ; a 

 rather long filamentous tail, black tipped with white, at the end of vein 2, and short 

 black projections at the ends of veins 1 and 3. Costa highly arched at base, then 

 nearly straight to the apex, which is sub-acute, outer margin evenly rounded, except for 

 the projections mentioned. Cilia black, with white tips towards the apices of both 

 wings. Underside. Foreiving with the ground colour shining pinkish-grey, the basal 

 and upper half of the wing suffused with dark pinkish-brown, paling somewhat 

 outwardly, markings darker brown, edged with whitish, two round spots of nearly 

 equal size inside the cell, and two paler ones below them, a band of conjoined square 

 spots from the costa, increasing in size hindwards, crossing the end of the cell to 

 vein 2, the band containing two or three small projections on each side, a discal similar 

 band of five conjoined spots from the costa to vein 3, the fourth spot the largest, its 

 outer end projecting a little outwards, the band continued by two paler and narrower 

 Vjrown marks in the next two interspaces ; terminal line blackish, a sub-terminal series 

 of blackish lunules, the three middle ones most prominent, and between the line and 

 the sub-terminal series is a darker line of conjoined hinular marks. Hlndwing nearly 

 entirely sufi'used with dark pinkish-brown, a whitish mark on the middle of the costa, a 

 sub-basal row of five conjoined spots, the four lower ones round, closely followed by a 

 row of four round spots, the last one touching the fourth spot of the first row, an 

 irregular, outwardly curved discal band, dislocated hindwards and obscured upwards by 

 the white mark on the middle of the costa, followed by an irregular extra discal narrow 

 band ; terminal line blackish, a sub-terminal series of indistinct pale brown lunular 

 marks, a large narrow sub-terminal black spot in interspace 3, and a round one at the 

 anal angle, both capped with metallic blue-green scales. Antenna3 black ; palpi black 

 above, grey beneath ; head and body blackish above, with dark blue pubescence, thorax 

 l)rowu beneath, abdomen grey. 



Female, like the male above and beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? 1-^ to 1^ inches. 



H.\BiTAT. — Sylhet, Sikkim, Burma, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra. 



