194 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Female. Upperside resembling the male, but paler, the marginal black bands are 

 somewhat broader, leaving only the cell space and posterior base purple, the disc paler. 

 Jlindaing with the purple interior more restricted. Underside like the male. Antennae 

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



Genitalia not unlike those of oenea, Hewitson, but the tegumen hooks are short 

 and not elbowed ; the clasps are broader, with the upper part of the jaw pointed, but 

 broader. The penis is decidedly shorter. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ l-^^ to lyo inches. 



Larva, feeds on the young leaves of the common oak at Mussuri, Qaercus incana, 

 Roxb. : of the usual Lycsenid shape, pink, almost hairless, and attended by ants ; of the 

 colour of milk and water till about half grown, when they become a little greenish- 

 blue ; just before they turn into pupae, they become of a pink colour. The only 

 marking is the dorsal stripe, which begins on the third segment, becoming wider to 

 about the seventh segment, when it narrows gradually to the eleventh, on which it 

 ends. The new leaves of the hill oak are covered with a white tomentum, and these 

 larvae lie on the inside of the leaves, and, being exactly the same colour as the fluff on 

 the leaves, they are very difficult to see. The attending ant is always single, and 

 seemed to be occupied in stroking the posterior end of the larva. 



Pupa, brown with a pink tinge. (Mackinnon and de Niceville.) 



Habitat. — Himalayas, Burma, China. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Moore from Dharmsala, by Doherty from Kumaon 

 and Margherita in Upper Assam, by Watson from Chin Lushai, by Mackinnon and 

 de Niceville from Mussuri, by Mauders from the Shan States, by de Niceville from 

 the Meplay Valley, Donat Range, and Thouugyin, all in Upper Tenasserim, by Leech 

 from Kiukiang, China, and we have it from Sikkim and the Kangra Valley ; Doherty 

 says he took it at Ramgarh (7,500 feet) in December, when the ground was powdered 

 with snow ; it is a common and widely spread species, it is in the B. M. also from 

 Landoor, Murree, Thundiani, Tilin Yaw and Sultanpore. 



ARHOPALA DODONCEA. 



Plate 686, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, 9 . 



Amhlypodia dodonea, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 43, pi. la, fig. 8 (1857). 



PancJiala dodonea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 252. 



Panchala{1) dodonsea, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 364. 



Arliopala dodonsea, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 258 (1890) ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



1890, p. 386. Mackinnon and de Niceville, id. 1898, p. 382. Leslie and Evans, id. 1903, 



p. 674. Hannyngton, id. 1910, p. 366. 

 Arhopala dodonea, Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 134, pi. 5, tigs. 25, 25a (genitalia). 



Lmago. — Male and Female. Sexes alike. Upperside pale-blue. Forewing with a 

 pale space in the upper disc, and very broad costal and outer marginal black borders, 



