228 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



have it also from Simla and Kulu. It is the type of Moore's genus Panchala and is 

 certainly more worthy of differentiation than any other of the so-called separate genera. 

 It is in the B. M. also from Sultanpore and Ranikhet. 



SECTION IV. 



With tails = Acesina, Moore. 



ARHOPALA ABERRAMS. 

 Plate 696, figs. 3, <J , 3a, ? , 3b, ? . 



Acesina aherrans, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 279, pi. 14, figs. 3, <J , 4, 9 ; id. Butt 

 of India, iii. p. 281, pi. 25, figs. 142, <? , 143, ? (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, 

 p. 532. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 49. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 634. 



Amhlypodia aherrans, Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 49. 



Arhopala aherrans, Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 144. 



Imago.— Male. Upperside violet-blue. Furewing with black costal and outer 

 marginal line. IJindwing with the costal area narrowly blackish, a black outer 

 marginal line, abdominal fold pale, tail black, tipped with white, a suffused, narrow 

 pale blackish sub-terminal streak on each side of the tail edged outwardly by a white 

 thread close to the black margin, an indistinct blackish anal spot ringed with whitish. 

 Cilia black, with its lower part on both wings tipped with white. Underside white, 

 with some pale chocolate suffused marks on the upper and outer portions of the 

 forewing and over the whole of the hindwings ; markings chocolate-brown, with white 

 edges. Forewing with the spots and bands rather large, three bar-like spots across the 

 cell, increasing in size outwards, with paler bands between them, some irregular spots 

 above the two outer cell spots, from thence to the base the costa is suffused with pale 

 chocolate colour, an outwardly oblique spot below the middle of the two outer cell 

 spots, a larger spot joined to it, in the next lower interspace, below the middle cell 

 spot, a discal band of seven spots in two jsieces, the uppermost small, joined to three 

 larger spots in an outwardly oblique line, two large and one smaller spot joined together 

 in echelon with the upper series, its upper end well separated from it, its lower end 

 touching the lower end of the sub-marginal band which is diffuse near the hinder angle 

 and runs up in a fine line to the costa. Hlndwing with a rather large costal spot at 

 the immediate base, four sub-basal spots close together, the upper one well separated 

 from the costa, the fourth inwards near the base of the abdominal margin, followed by 

 four larger spots, three in a line touching each other, the fourth well separated and 

 near the middle of the abdominal margin, a curved bar at the end of the cell, a spot 

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



