210 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



interspaces, all three capped with metallic blue-green scales. Cilia of both wings 

 Ijlack. 



Female. Upperside paler blue. Forewing with broad black costal margin 

 increasing in width to the apex, and narrowing gradually on the outer margin. 

 llindwing with the costal space broadly blackish and a narrow outer marginal blackish 

 band. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? l-^ to 1-j^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Penang. 



Distribution. — The types came from Taoo and Moolai, 3,000 to 6000 feet, both in 

 Upper Tenasserim, Doherty's type from Myitta in Lower Tenasserim, Bethune-Baker 

 records examples in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Bheeling, Mergui and Penang, 

 and we have it from the Ye Valley ; it is in the B. M. also from Lankawi, Salween 

 Valley, Ataran Valley and the Amherst Road. 



ARHOPALA DUESSE. 



Plate 691, figs. 1, ^, la, $. 



Arlwpala duessa, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 419, pi. 23, fig. 6. de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, iii. p. 271 (1890). Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 143. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Foreimng bright blue, with costal and outer marginal 

 black bands, narrow on the costa, broadening outwards, very bi'oad at the apex, 

 narrowing gradually hindwards on the outer margin, veins black. llindwing uniformly 

 dark brown, with a purple tint ; marginal line dark brown. Cilia dark brown, no tails. 

 Underside grey, glazed, markings chocolate-brown, with whitish edges. Forewing 

 with all but the hinder marginal space suffused with brown, two small spots in the cell, 

 an outwardly curved bar at the end, a small spot below its inner side, a discal very 

 broad band of conjoined spots, slightly outwardly curved above its middle, and 

 increasing in size hindwards, some brown suffusion below it. Hindwing with the spots 

 large, four sub-basal, the fourth a little inwards, followed by three in a line, slightly 

 larger, an outwardly curved bar at the end of the cell, an indistinct spot between it and 

 the third of the second series, touching both, a discal well curved series of eight spots, 

 the two first from the costa large, conjoined, and of equal size, the lower inner end of 

 the second touching the outer upper end of the discoidal bar, the others in three pairs 

 of much smaller spots, commencing from close to the lower outer end of the second, the 

 fifth and outer portion of the curved seventh somewhat inwards, marginal line of both 

 wings brown, a sub-marginal band of lunules, and between them some indistinct lunular 

 marks, the entire hindwing more or less variegated with pale and dark shadings, the 

 upper part being darkest. 



Expanse of wings, ,J Ig inches. 



Habitat, — Burma. 



