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three larger spots, a bar at the end of the cell with an attached spot above it and 

 another below it, and a discal, outwardly curved rather narrow band of conjoined 

 lunules arising from some dark brown suffusion in the upper disc ; indications of sub- 

 terminal marks, an indistinct black anal spot, another in the second interspace with a 

 few metallic blue-green scales in them, and a whitish suffusion across the wing above 

 the anal angle. 



Female. — Upperside paler violet-blue, both wings with broad marginal borders. 

 Underside like the male, but paler, the bands more distinct, the discal band of the 

 hindwing traceable to the upper end, where there are two round separated spots. 



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



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. 



Distribution.— The types came from Singapore, our descriptions are from them. 

 Distant records it from Province Wellesley, Perak and Sungei Ujong ; Druce from 

 Borneo, Bethune-Baker from Java, Sumatra, and Tenasserim (Donat Kange). 



ARHOPALA EPIMUTA. 



Plate 690, figs. 1, <J,la, ?, lb, $. 



Amblypodia epimuta, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. p. 42 (1857). 



Arhopala epimuta, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 593. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 



1903, p. 88, pi. 2, fig. 9, <J, pi. 5, figs. 6, 6a (genitalia). 

 Arhopala antimuta, de Niceville (nee Felder), Butt, of India, iii. p. 277 (footnote) (1890). 

 Arrhopala antimuta, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 469. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violaceous-blue. Forewing with the costa and 

 outer margin with a very fine black line, a patch of differently arranged scales in the 

 centre of the wing. Hindwing with the costal space blackish, the outer marginal black 

 line very fine, abdominal fold blackish-grey. Cilia brownish-grey. Underside brown, 

 markings not darker than the ground colour, indicated by their pale ochreous-grey 

 edges. F'orewing with a sub-basal spot in the cell, a larger oval spot in the middle, 

 and a still larger bar-shaped spot at the end ; an outwardly oblique spot below the 

 middle of the last two cell spots, and another spot in the next lower interspace below 

 the centre cell spot, their two upper ends meeting together and forming an ano-je ; a 

 discal series of seven conjoined spots, the first inwards on the costa, very small and 

 indistinct, the fifth shifted half way outwards, a small mark below the seventh. 

 Hindwing with four sub-basal spots at equal distances apart, the fourth inwards, but 

 separated from the abdominal margin, followed by three larger spots in a line, the 

 third largest and irregularly shaped, a somewhat straight bar at the end of the cell, a 

 discal series of eight conjoined spots, the second not immediately below the first as is 

 usual, but a little outwards, its lower ends touching the upper outer end of the cell bar 



