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Distribution. — The type came from Myitta, Tenasserim, the description is from 

 an example from the Donat Eange, in the B. M. 



ARHOPALA ARTBGAL. 

 Plate 691, figs. 2, ^ , 2a, ? , 2b, ^ . 



Flos artegal, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 423, pi. 2.3, fig. $ {$ ex errore). 

 Arhopala artegal, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 255 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 

 p. 631. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 115. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside very dark lilac-blue. Forewing with fine costal and 

 outer marginal black line. Ilindiving with the costal space black, the outer margin 

 with a fine black line. Cilia black, no tails, but there are short productions at the 

 ends of all the veins, abdominal fold grey. Underside chocolate-brown, variegated in 

 parts with pale brownish-grey. Forewing with the lower half very pale, a square bar 

 in the middle of the cell, suffused into the dark basal patch which is triangular, a very 

 large dark square spot at the end of the cell, with two conjoined angular spots attached 

 to its lower side, a highly curved discal dark band, thickest in its middle, fining hind- 

 wards almost to a point, a white smear at the apex partially covering a dark apical 

 space, which extends a little down the outer margin. Hindwing darker than the fore- 

 wing, a pale shade across the lower middle, basal area very dark, with a still 

 darker, squarish, large patch from the costa before the middle, with a spot on its 

 inner side and some spots below it, a bar closing the cell, with two conjoined spots in 

 continuation inwards to the abdominal margin, a discal sinuous blackish line, lost 

 upwards in a very large dark patch below the costa near the apex, and ending- 

 near the abdominal margin in a prominent dark linear mark, a black anal spot, another 

 in the next interspace, both capped with metallic blue-green scales, with a suff"used 

 dark band crossing the wing above them, terminal line of both wings brown. 



Female. Upperside pale lilac-blue, shining. Foreicing with a very broad black 

 apical band, extending along the costa to the end of the cell, where it suddenly narrows, 

 does not enter the cell, but runs narrowly along the costa to the base, the outer 

 marginal black band is very wide, and becomes still wider at the hinder angle. 

 Hindwing with the costal and outer marginal black bands very broad and even, 

 abdominal fold blackish, paling a little upwards. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, $ 1^%, $ ly^^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — Doherty 's type came from Mergui, he has certainly figured and 

 described the female, not the male ; there are a pair in B. M. from Tavoy Valley, 

 taken by Bingham in April, 1893, which are undoubtedly artegal. The female 

 corresponds with Doherty's description and figure, and the male on the underside is 



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