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indistinct. Hindwing with the centre parts suffused with dark chocolate-brown, two 

 narrow bands near the base, a sub-basal very dark patch, swollen in its middle, from 

 the costa ending at the end of the cell, with one or two paler spots below it, a 

 recurved narrower band across the wing, a little beyond the middle, sometimes more 

 or less continuous, sometimes broken into three pieces ending in a disconnected 

 spot in the second interspace, a discal narrower baud, its upper part suffused and 

 obliterated by a large dark patch in the upper disc, indications of a sub-terminal 

 band, darkest towards the anal angle, a black spot at the anal angle, another in the 

 second interspace, somewhat removed from the margin, both capped with greenish- 

 yellow metallic scales. 



Female. Upperside paler purple than in the male. Forewing with a broad costal 

 blackish border and a still broader outer marginal border. Hindwing with very broad 

 marginal borders. Underside like the male. 



Expanse of wings, ,? ? lyV inches. 



Habitat. — India, Burma, Singapore, Philippines. 



Distribution. — The type is recorded as from the Philippines, we have received 

 many examples of both sexes from Sikkim and the Khasia Hills where it is common, 

 Watson records it from the Chin Hills, Manders from the Shan States, Distant from 

 Singapore ; it is in the B. M. also from Fort Stedman, Amherst Eoad, and May my o, 

 Upper Burma. 



ARHOPALA ASOKA. 



Plate 687, figs. 3, <? , 3a, ? , 3b, $ . 



NilaseraQ) asoka, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 78, pi. 9, fig. 6, (J ; 6a, 9 ■ 

 Arhopala asolca, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 252 (1890). Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 



1903, p. 118. 

 Satadra chola, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 39. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark glossy purple-blue. Forewing with the costal 

 and outer marginal line finely black. Hindwing, costa broadly black, outer margin 

 with a black band of about half the breadth, its inner edge uneven and somewhat 

 diffuse. Cilia white, with a brown base, a moderately sized tail at the end of vein 2, 

 black, tipped with white ; slight black projections at the ends of veins 3, 4, 5 and 6. 

 Underside with the ground colour pale chocolate-grey, markings dark chocolate-brown. 

 Fu7'ewing with the hinder marginal space below vein 5 nearly white ; costal space from 

 the base to the discal band broadly paler than the bands, with a somewhat reddish tint, 

 a broad sub-basal band from the costal band to vein 1, closely followed by a somewhat 

 narrower similar band, which touches the sub-basal band at the base of interspace 2, 

 and protrudes outwards in interspace 3 and is completed by a square spot a little 

 outwards in interspace 1, the discal band, which is a little narrower than the medial 



