204: LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



AEHOPALA CHINENSIS. 

 Plate 689, figs. 1, ^ , la, ? , lb, ^ . 



Arhopala chinensis, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 231, pi. 29, fig. 10, ^ (1865). de ISTiceville, Butt. 



of India, iii. p. 279 (1890). Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. See. 1903, p. 118, pi. 3, fig. 1, <? ; 



pl. 0, figs. 19, 19a (genitalia). 

 Amhiypodia chinensis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 774. Hewitson, III. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 14 g 



(1869). 

 Saladra chinensis, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 41. 



Nilasera{?) moelleri, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 80, pl. 9, figs. 4, (J , 4a, 9 • 

 Arhopala moelleri, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 266 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 



p. 632. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 300. 

 Flos moelleri, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1891, p. 34. 

 Satadra lazula, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 40. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside ultramarine-blue, with a beautiful shining gloss in 

 certain lights. Forewing with the costal and outer marginal line black. Hindwing 

 with the costal space black and a black outer marginal line, no tail, but there are slight 

 black productions at the ends of all the veins, abdominal fold blackish. Cilia black, 

 with white tips. Underside with the ground colour greyish-white, with a slight 

 chocolate tint, markings chocolate-brown. Forewing with the basal third chocolate- 

 brown, a pale spot in it in the middle of the cell, not always present, but generally 

 some indication of it ; in the type specimen it is somewhat prominent ; a broad band 

 from a little beyond the middle of the costa crossing the end of the cell to vein 2, 

 connected broadly on the costa to the costal patch, and running in on vein 2, in 

 connection with the patch, leaving another pale patch nearly square before the end of 

 the cell, the lower outer end of this band touches the discal band, which is rather 

 nearer the margin than usual, is broad and fairly uniform, and is very deeply outwardly 

 curved, and ends in a square spot in the interno-median interspace, its upper part 

 joining the two bands together, leaving a discal pale space from vein 7 to vein 2, the outer 

 portion of the wing more or less suffused with chocolate-brown, a double sub-marginal 

 brown line in it, obliterated by the dark suffusion in the type specimen. Hindwing 

 with the ground colour darker than in the forewing, a small brown patch at the base, 

 a broad sub-basal dark band broken on its outer margin in the type specimen, more or 

 less broken in others, but sometimes its outer margin is complete and sinuous, a medial 

 Ijand of five spots, the first from the costa pale, with brown edges, the second, third 

 and fourth conjoined and running across the end of the cell, the first and second 

 inwardly curved, the second much larger than the first, its outer upper end protruding 

 outwards, a black angular spot filling up the base of the second interspace, a blackish 

 square spot in the first interspace, its lower outer edge touching the base of the last- 

 mentioned spot, its inner side narrowing and continued to the abdominal margin where 

 it touches the lower end of the sub-basal band, a broad suflused brown discal fascia. 



