216 LEPIDOPTEBA INDIOA. 



square spots, the first three inclining outwards, the other three straight clown, a 

 small dot below the lower end of the band, a sub-mai-ginal pale brown, rather broad 

 band broadening hindwards. Hindwing with four small sub-basal spots, the fourth 

 inwards followed by three larger spots in a line, a curved bar at the end of the cell, a 

 discal series of eight spots in four pairs, the first two from the costa outside the cell 

 bar, the next two well outwards, the next two inwards, the last two curved inwards as 

 usual, a series of sub-marginal conjoined lunules, a marginal brown line with small 

 lunular marks attached, margin of wing slightly scalloped. 



Male unknown. 



Expanse of wings, $ ly'^^ inches. 



Habitat. - — Andamans. 



The type specimen is in the B. M. and is unique. 



ARHOPALA PEEIMUTA. 

 Plate 692, figs. 4, ^ , 4a, ? , 4b, ? . 



Amhly-podia perimuta, Moore, Cat. Lap. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 42 (1857). Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. 



p. 12, pi. 6, figs. 6.5, 66, (J (1862) ; id. 111. Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 21, pi. 7, Suppl. fig. 61, $ 



(1878). 

 Darasana perimuta, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 42; id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lend. 



1886, p. 44. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 423, and 1891, p. 34. 

 Arhojala perlii.uta, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 270 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, 



p. 632. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 300. Bethune- Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, 



p. 139. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside glossy purple-blue, costal and outer marginal line 

 black. Cilia black, no tails. Underside chocolate-brown with a purplish tint. Fure- 

 wing with the hinder marginal space broadly pale, markings slightly darker than the 

 ground colour, with pale edges, three oval spots in the cell, increasing in size outwards ; 

 indications of the two usual spots beneath the two outer cell spots ; a discal rather 

 broad band of six conjoined spots, the first small, in a row with the next three, 

 inclining outwards, the fifth straight down, the sixth very slightly outwards, the whole 

 forming an almost even, outward curve ; a double series of sub-marginal conjoined 

 rather square spots. Hindwing with a very broad, dull pale ochreous fascia across the 

 wing, broadest in its middle, occupying nearly half the wing surface, four small 

 sub-basal spots, the fourth inwards, followed by three larger spots in a line, the two 

 upper ones oval-shaped, a curved bar at the end of the cell of the pale ochreous 

 colour of the fascia, indicated by its brown edges, some dark spots below it, an 

 irregular outwardly curved line of lunular mai'ks, its lower portion obscured in the 

 dark ground colour of the outer portion of the wing, which is often somewhat nebulous 

 on its inner side and darkens towards the margin, marginal line brown. 



