200 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



band, runs outwardly obliquely from the costal edge, is elbowed outwards somewhat in 

 interspace 4, and then rund down straight to vein 2, a sub-terminal band, commencing 

 from the costa in the form of a waved line, and begins to thicken hindwards from 

 vein 5, an indistinct series of terminal, whitish lunular marks with dark centres. 

 Hindwing suffused with brown, a broad sub-basal band, edged on both sides with 

 whitish, its outer edge irregular, as if containing some conjoined spots, the medial and 

 discal bands paler and very irregular and difficult to describe, the outer one containing 

 some brown suffusion at both ends, terminal line brown, a sub-terminal line of more or 

 less disconnected, fine lunules, and between them three black spots in interspaces 1, 

 2 and 3, more or less covered with iridescent blue-green scales, the middle spot often 

 completely covered. 



Female. Upperside rather pale ultramarine-blue. Forewing with very broad costal 

 and outer marginal black borders, the latter broadest at the hinder angle, a black spot 

 at the end of the cell, sometimes more or less merged in the costal border. Hindicing 

 almost entirely black, the blue area being confined to the cell and to the space below 

 it, varying in extent in difterent examples. Underside as in the male, but the ground 

 colour mach whiter, making the bands more prominent. Antennae black ; palpi black 

 aljove, grey beneath ; head and body above and beneath concolorous with the wings, 

 but the abdomen beneath is ochreous-grey. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1^ to 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Burma. 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — Common in Sikkim, we have received many examples ; Bethune- 

 Baker records the receipt of a pair from Staudinger, taken at Bhamo, Burma. 



ARHOPALA APIDANUS. 

 Plate 688, i5gs. 1, (J, la, ? , lb, $ , Ic, Jarva and pupa. 



Pcq-iilio apidanus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 137, figs. P, G, ^ (1777). Fabricius, Sp. Ins. ii. p. 119 



(1781) ; id. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 69 (1787). 

 Hesperia apidamis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 280 (1793). 

 Pulyommatus apidanus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 652 (1823). 

 Amhhjpodia apidanus, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 100 (1829). Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. 



Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 39, pi. i. figs. .5, larva; 5a, pupa (1857). Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 180 



(1869) ; id. Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lend. 1877, p. 549. 

 Satadra apidanus, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 188-1, p. 41. 

 Panchala apidanus. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 273, woodcut, 85, ^ (1885). 

 Arhopala apidanus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 253 (1890). H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1895, p. 590. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 115, pi. 5, figs. 17, 17a (genitalia). 

 Thecla appidanus, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. pi. 4, fig. 3, larva, 3a, pupa (1829). 

 Ariihhipodia apMdanus, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 353. 

 Popilio dorimond, Stoll, Suppl. Cramer, pi. 37, fig. 4, 4D, ? (1790). 



