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Distribution. — The type came from Sylhet, Elwes records it from E. Pegu, 

 Watson from Chin Lushai and the Chin Hills, and it is in our collection also from the 

 same locality, from Sikkim and the Khasia Hills ; de Niceville records it from 

 King Island, Mergui, Doherty from Tenasserim, Hewitson from Singapore, 

 Druce from Borneo and Sumatra, it is in the B. M. also from Chindwin, Tavoy and 

 Salween. 



ARHOPALA EAMA. 



Plate 686, figs. 1, ^, la, J, lb, $ , Ic, larva. Id, pupa. 



Theda rama, KoUar, Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. (2), p. 412, pi. 4, figs. 1, 2, ,J (1848). 



Amhlypodia rama, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 13, pi. 7, figs. 69, 70, ^; 71, 9 (1862). Leech, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 111. 

 Panchala rama, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 252. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 



p. 126. Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 145. 

 Arhopala rama, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 251 (1890). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 



1891, p. 34. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 47. Mackinnon and de Niceville, 



id. 1898, p. 382, pi. V, figs. 14a, 14b, larva, 14c, 14d, pupa. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 



1903, p. 130. Hannyngton, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1910, p. 366. 

 Arhopala {Amhlypodia) rama, Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 532. 

 Amhlypodia qiierceti, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 43 (1857). 

 Amhlypodia violacea, Rober, Iris, 1886, p. 72, pi. 5, fig. 6. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purple. Foretving, apex pointed, there being a slight 

 excavation immediately below it, with very broad costal and outer marginal black 

 borders commencing from the middle of the costa, where the black spot at the end of 

 the cell runs into it, the band is broadest at the apex and projects inwards a little 

 above the hinder angle. Hlndwing also with very broad blackish borders, but the 

 blackish colour is altogether of a paler shade than the black of the borders of the fore- 

 wing, the costal space palest, the outer margin smoothly rounded, a short rather thick 

 tail at the end of vein 2, black, tipped with white. Cilia dark grey, darkest on 

 forewing, becoming blackish upwards. Underside grey-brown, with a slight pinkish 

 tint. Forewing with the hinder marginal space broadly pale, markings slightly darker 

 than the ground colour, three indistinct cell spots, a small round one near the base, a 

 larger oval spot in the middle, and a bar-shaped still larger spot at the end, indications 

 of an elongated spot below the last two in the next lower interspace, and another 

 mark below this a little inwards, but all very indistinct and difficult to make out ; a 

 discal, even band of eight conjoined spots, in a very slight outward curve, and a 

 sub-terminal series of very indistinct lunular marks, terminal line brown. Hindwing 

 with some very indistinct marks on the basal portion, a bar at the end of the cell, a 

 sub-costal spot above it and a discal outwardly curved band of conjoined spots ; all the 

 markings visible on both wings are slightly tinged with ochreous. 



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