AMBLYPODIINJE. 217 



Female. Upperside paler than the male and more blue, the black margins of l)otli 

 wings very broad. Underside as in the male. 



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



Genitalia with the tegumen short and of a heavy scimitar shape ; the clasps are 

 bilobed, and the penis is a straight tube. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Sylhet, Assam, Burma. 



Distribution. — The type came from Sylhet, Elwes records it from the Naga Hills, 

 de Niceville from Rungamutti in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Doherty from Margherita 

 in Upper Assam, Mergui and Myitta ; we have received a good many examples of both 

 sexes from the Khasia Hills ; it is in the B. M. also from Darjiliug, the Ye Valley and 

 Rangoon. 



ARHOPALA ANDAMANICA. 



Plate 693, figs. 1, ^, la, ? , lb, ^. 



Amblypodia (? Narathura), fulla, var. andamanica, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Proc. As. Soc. 



Bengal, August, 1881, p. 143. 

 Naratliura fulla, var. andamanica, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, 



p. 251. 

 Arhopala andamanica, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 267, pi. 27, fig. 199, ^ (1890). Bethune- 



Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 1.51, pi. i, figs. 25, 25a (genitalia). 

 Naratliura suhfasciata, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Sept. 1881, p. 312. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violet-blue, aarker than in A. fulla, and more 

 blue. Forewing with the marginal black bands broader, especially at the apex. Illnd- 

 loing with the costal space very broadly black, gradually narrowing round the apex and 

 down the outer margin. Cilia black, with dark grey tips, not white tips as in fulla. 

 Underside more ochreous than in fulla, the lower half of the forewing pale, indications 

 of two pale brown thin bands, discal and sub-marginal rather close together, an obscure 

 rather broad brownish band across the wing a little beyond the middle, the space 

 beyond it to the outer margin slightly paler, with indications of a pale brown sub- 

 marginal thin band. 



Female, bright violet-blue, of a much more beautiful blue than the male 

 and very different in colour to the female of A. fulla, marginal black bands broader 

 than in the male and very clearly black and well pronounced. Underside as in the 

 male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? I5 inches. 



Habitat. — Andamans. 



Bethune-Baker says this species is quite distinct from fulla ; the genitalia have 

 the tegumen hooks stoutish and the clasps are heavy and broad, terminating in short 

 upturned points. 



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