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base of the wing to one-fourth from the outer margin and from the sub-costal 

 nervure to the inner margin shining purple, the end of the discoidal cell marked with 

 a wedge-shaped tooth of the black ground colour. Hindwing reddish-brown, the basal 

 area occupying about one-third of the total area of the wing, shining purple, the anal 

 lobe reddish, the tail very broad at the base, thence tapering to a fine point, reddish, 

 without a white tip. Underside, both wings light reddish-brown, all the markings 

 black, of a curious character and unlike any species of the genus known to me. Forewiwj 

 with the three usual increasing markings in the cell, and the two outer ones with a spot 

 each anterior to them on the costa ; two spots below the cell, divided by the first 

 median nervule ; a discal highly irregular macular band which is broadest on the costa, 

 tapering to a mere dot behind the first median nervule, a very obscure sub-marginal 

 fascia. Hindwing with the six usual sub-basal spots, a prominent discal macular fascia 

 commencing behind the costal nervule towards the apex of the wing, terminating on 

 the middle of the abdominal margin in front of the internal nervure ; beyond this 

 is another fascia on the disc, each spot of which is represented by several l^lack dots in 

 a ring, the sub-marginal fascia as on the forewing, but even more obscure, no anal 

 metallic markings whatever. This very comical-looking species may be an aberration or 

 " sport," but I am at a loss to conjecture of what species it can be an aberration, more 

 especially as the shape of the tail with its broad base is very aberrant, on the upperside 

 it is coloured and marked as on the same sex of A. alemon, mihi, Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. vol, vi., page 371, n. 20, pi. F, figs. 20, male, 21, female (1891), which flies 

 with it. (de Niceville.) 



Expanse of wings, ? 1-^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — Described from a single example taken by Major F. B. Longe, E.E., 

 on the 12th March, 1898. 



We have not seen this species ; the type is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



SECTION II. 



With tails and with the markings of the underside formed of solid bands and 

 mottled variegations. 



AEHOPALA DIARDI. 



Plate 687, figs. 1, ^ , la, ? , lb, ^ . 



Aml)lii2}odia diardi, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 9, pi. 5, tigs. 51, 52, ^ (1862). Druce, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1874, p. 107. Butler, Trans. Linu. Soo. Zool. Lond. 1877, p. 549. 

 Satadra diardi, Moore, Joui'n. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 41. 

 PancliaJa diardi, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 272, pi. 23, fig. 14, $ (1885). 

 Arliopala diardi, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 256 (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



