AMBLYPOBIIN^. 213 



ARHOPALA METAMUTA. 

 Plate 691, figs. 4, ^ , in, ? , 4b, ^ . 



Amhlypodia metamuta, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 13, pi. ii. figs. 14, 15, ^ (1863). Butler' 



Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1877, p. 548. 

 Narathura metamuta, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 267, pi. 23, fig. 19, ^ ; (nee fig. 18, ^ , var. ?) 



(1885). Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 44. 

 Arhopala metamuta, Doherty, Journ. As. Soe. Bengal, 1889, p. 419. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 275 (1890). Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 100, pi. 5, figs. 12, 12a (genitalia). 

 Arrlwpala metamuta, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 469. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing dark violet-purple, with a narrow costal 

 black band and a broader outer marginal band. Rindwing morpho-blue, shining in 

 certain lights, costal space broadly black, an outer marginal black band about as broad 

 as in the other wing, abdominal fold grey, no tails. Underside ochreous-brown, 

 markings indistinct, being very slightly darker than the ground colour, with pale 

 edges. Forewing with the hinder marginal space pale, the usual three cell spots, a 

 discal series of six spots, the first two conjoined, the others separate, the first four in 

 an outwardly oblique row, the fifth inwards, the sixth below it. llindwinq with four 

 sub-basal spots, the fourth only slightly inwards, followed by three spots in a line, the 

 lowest the largest, a bar at the end of the cell with marks above and below it, and 

 what looks like a double discal series of spots, and a sub-marginal series covering the 

 whole outer surface of the wiug ; marginal line brown, two small black anal spots 

 capped and almost obliterated by metallic blue scales. 



Female. Upperside, both wings morpho-blue, the blue colour gradually meroino- 

 into black at the borders. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? l-j^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. 



Distribution. — The type came from Sumatra, Moore records it from the Mero-ui 

 Archipelago, Doherty from Myitta and Mergui, Butler from Malacca, de Niceville from 

 Tenasserim, and Bethune-Baker from Penang ; it is in the B. M. also from Ye Valley 

 and the Amherst Road. 



ARHOPALA PARAMUTA. 



Plate 692, figs. 1, ^, la, ? , lb, <? . 



Panchala{?) paramuta, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 81, pi. 9, figs. 7, ^ , 7a, 9 . 

 Arhopala paramuta, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 268 (1890). Elwes, Proe. Zool. Soe. 1892, 



p. 632. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 301. Dudgeon, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soe. vol. x. 



1895, p. 144. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 135, pi. 4, figs. 22, 22a (genitalia). 

 Darasana paramuta, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1891, p. 34. 

 Barasana newarra, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 42. Waterhouse, Aid, pi. 165, 



fisjs. 4, 4a, (J (1886). 



