212 LEPIDOPTEBA INDIGA. 



identical with the underside of the female ; it is not unlike a small falgida without 

 tails, there is a male in Tytler's collection from the Shan States. 



ARHOPALA HYPOMUTA. . . 



Plate 691, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, ? , 3b, <J . 



Amblypodia h/pomuta, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 11, pi. 6, figs. G3, 64, ^ (1862) ; id. 111. Diuru. 



Lep. Lye. p. 12, pi. 2, fig. 13, <? (1863). Druce, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1873, p. 354. Butler, Trans. 



Linn. Soe. Zool. Lond. 1877, p. 549. 

 Arhopala liypomuta, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 276 (1890). Bethune- Baker, Trans. Zool. Soe. 



1903, p. 99, pi. 2, fig. 15, $ . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, bright purple-blue. Forewing with the costal and 

 outer marginal line thickly black. Hindwing, costal space broadly black, outer 

 margin with a thick black line. Cilia black, no tails. Underside brown marking con- 

 colorous, formed by their ochreous-grey pale edgings. Forewing with three bars in the 

 cell, increasing in size outwards, a well separated small spot near the costa above the 

 last, an outwardly oblique spot below its inner side, a well separated spot in the next 

 lower interspace below the middle cell spot, a discal series of six conjoined spots, the 

 first small, near the costa, inwards, the fourth pushed outwards, a sub-marginal double 

 row of rather square spots separated by the veins. Hindwing, with four sub-basal 

 spots, the fourth well inwards, followed by three larger spots, a bar at the end of the 

 cell, slightly constricted at its middle, a small spot adjoining its upper inner end, another 

 between its lower inner end, and the third spot of the second series touching both, a 

 discal series of eight spots in an almost even, outward curve, the first separate, the 

 next five touching each other, the fifth shifted inwards, the sixth outwards, the seventh 

 and eighth in a sinuous curve to the abdominal margin, a double series of sub- 

 marginal marks, the inner ones lunular, three black spots at the anal angle, 

 partly covered by a sinuous band of metallic blue-green scales, generally fractured 

 between the second and third spot, marginal line of both wings brown, with a pale 

 inner thread. 



Female. Upperside rather pale violet-blue. Forewing with a narrow costal black 

 band for half its length, which then suddenly expands to the apex, the outer marginal 

 band broad, gradually narrowing hindwards. Hindwing with the costal space broadly 

 black, the outer marginal band narrow. Underside as in the male. 



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



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula, Borneo. 



Distribution. — ^Hewitson's type is marked " India," it is in the B. M. from Burma, 

 we have it from Tenasserim. 



