220 LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



and the triangular spot touching both, a discal series of eight spots, the second the 

 largest, its lower inner edge touching the upper outer edge of the cell bar, the remaining 

 spots conjoined in an almost even curve, the upper one well separated from the first 

 two, the fifth spot a little inwards ; both wings with brown marginal line, sub-marginal 

 band, and between them a series of indistinct lunular marks, three black anal spots, 

 smothered with metallic blue-green scales. 



Female. Upperside purplish-blue, rather paler than in the male, the margins 

 broadly black. Underside as in the male. 



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



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — The type is labelled India (probably from Maulmein), it is in 

 the Druce collection from Malawoon, Burma ; de Niceville records it as having been 

 taken by Watson at Beeling and by Anderson at Yimiki, King Island, Mergui Archi- 

 pelago ; the description of the male is from the type in the B. M. ; our figure is from 

 an example from the Druce collection, our description and figure of the female from an 

 example in our own collection from the Ataran Valley. 



ARHOPALA PERISSA. 



Plate 694, figs. 2, <?, 2a, J , 2b, ^ . 



Arhopala perissn, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 419, pi. 23, fig. 11. de Niceville, Butt, 

 of ludia, iii. p. 278 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 633. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. 1903, p. 137, pi. 3, fig. 11, ^. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich purple-blue, varying in some examples to brilliant 

 pale lustrous blue. Forewing with the costal border narrowly black to the middle, then 

 suddenly expanding to the apex, where the border is very broad, and gradually narrows 

 hiudwards to the hinder angle. liindidng with the costal black band moderately 

 broad, continued round the apex and narrowing gradually to the anal angle. Cilia 

 black ; very slight productions at the ends of all the veins ; no tails. Underside 

 chocolate-brown, with a slight ochreous tint ; markings slightly darker than the ground 

 colour, pale edged. Foreivwg with the hinder marginal area broadly pale, a small oval 

 sub-basal spot in the cell, a larger one in the middle, a still larger spot at the end, with 

 a small spot attached to its upper inner side, an outwardly oblique spot below it, with 

 a larger sub-quadrate spot in the next lower interspace, its upper outer end attached 

 to the lower inner side of the oblique spot ; a discal fairly broad band of six conjoined 

 spots, almost straight down, the first small, the others of uniform size, its lower end 

 rather close to the sub-marginal series, terminal line brown, with a series of pale brown 

 lunular marks on it. Hiadiving with four small sub-basal spots, the fourth well inwards, 

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

 spots in continuation, the first curved, the other running in on to the abdominal 



