198 LEPIBOPTEBA INDICA. 



evenly broad on the outer margin, running narrowly for a short distance up the inner 

 margin ; a short thick black bar across the upper end of the cell joining the costal 

 band. Hindwing with the costal space blackish, the outer margin with a fairly broad 

 suffused blackish band, abdominal fold grey. Underside paler than the male, the bands 

 narrower and consequently well separated, the dark patches at the base of both wings 

 are generally only faintly indicated, and on the forewing the diseal and post-discal 

 bands are wide apart from each other and are not usually in any way connected. 



Expanse of wings, $ % If-Q to 2 inches. 



Genitalia. — The tegumen is very simple with hardly any hood, and the sides very 

 1)road almost to the juncture with the clasps ; the hooks are long, angled almost at 

 45° above their centre, and fixed very close to the top of the tegumen ; the clasps are 

 small ; the penis is rather like that organ in the eumolphus group, but much shorter, 

 not having the internal narrow portion as in that section. 



Habitat. — Assam, Naga and Karen Hills, Siam, Penang, Malacca, Singapore, 

 Java, Borneo, Celebes, Philippines. 



Distribution. — We have received many males from the Khasia Hills, but males 

 only ; the above description and figures of the male is from one of these examples. 

 Elwes records it from the Naga and Karen Hills, Druce from Siam, Moore from Penang, 

 Butler from Malacca, Distant from Singapore, and Bethune-Baker from the other 

 localities ; it is in the B. M. also from Salween and the Shan States. 



ARHOPALA PULGIDA. 



Plate 687, figs. 2, <J , 2a, ? , 2b, $ . 



Amblypodia fuhjida, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 11, pi. 5, fig. 31, ? (1863). 

 Nilasera{?)fulgicla, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 80, pi. 9, figs. 3, (J ; 3a, ? . 

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

 Arlwpala fulgida, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 254 (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 300. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 663. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 



1903, p. 114. 

 Arliopala (Amhh/podia) fiilgida, Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 532. 

 Panchda shujapura, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 273, woodcut 84 (1885). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich dark purple-blue, the costal and outer marginal 

 line finely black, much as in A. diardi. Underside rather pale rich chocolate- 

 brown, bands and spots dark chocolate-brown, with pale edges. Foi'eicing with the 

 basal fourth dark chocolate-brown, with its inner edge nearly straight, this colour 

 extended narrowly along the costa and joining an outwardly curved rather broad 

 band which cm^ves round the cell, from the middle of the centre to vein 2, and has 

 irregular edges, an outwardly curved diseal band from the costa to vein 2 where it 

 narrows to a point, terminal line dark brown, a double sub-terminal series, rather 



