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inwardly limited by a series of somewhat spear-shaped marks with pale edges, a sub- 

 marginal sinuous brown line and brown terminal line ; a row of five more or less 

 conjoined, black, sub-terminal spots from the anal angle, all capped with metallic blue 

 scales ; all these bands and markings very difiicult to describe, and they are not 

 altogether constant, in some examples the central band commences from the costa with 

 disjointed spots, and though the arrangement of them all is the same, they vary 

 somewhat in their detail in different examples. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing pale purple in the middle with very broad 

 marginal black borders. Hiiidiving nearly all blackish, the purple colour being limited 

 to a little more than a streak down the middle of the wing. Underside as in the 

 male. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ 1^ to 2 inches. 



Genitalia. — The tegumen highly excavated, so that the apex is produced into a 

 strong curved hook, the hooks themselves are sharply angled, the clasps are in two 

 portions, the fore portion receding within the hinder portion to a large extent, the 

 latter being rather small. The penis is very stout and strongly curved. 



Expanse of wings, $ % ly-^ to ly^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, South China. 



Distribution. — Elwes records it from Margharita and Bernardmyo, de Niceville 

 from Sikkim and Sibsaghar ; we have received several examples from the Khasia Hills ; 

 the type came from Shanghai, the type of mcelleri from Sikkim ; our figure of the male 

 is from Felder's type, and the female from a Khasia Hill specimen ; it is in the B. M. 

 also from Bhutan. 



ARHOPALA ARESTE. 



Plate 689, figs. 2, <J,2a, 9,2b, $. 



Amblypodia areste, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 10, pi. 5, figs. 43, 44, $ (1862). 



Nilasera{?) areste, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 97. 



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



Arliopala areste, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 271 (1890). Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 



1903, p. 119. 

 Satadra patuna, Moore, I.e. p. 40. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside similar in all respects to A. chinensis. Underside. 

 Forewing coloured and marked also as in chinensis. Hindwing darker, the basal fourth 

 dark chocolate-brown, its inner margin a little diffuse but very even ; a medial band 

 of five conjoined spots, of the ground colour, indicated by their darker brown edgings, 

 the first two are both inwardly curved, the third, which is divided by vein 4, crosses the 

 end of the cell and is slightly outwardly oblique, the fourth, divided by vein 2, is a 



