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series of eight spots, the first two from the costa, the second large, its lower inner end 

 touching the outer upper end of the discoidal bar, the third and fourth outwards, the 

 fifth inwards, the sixth outwards, the seventh in a curve, the eighth well inwards and 

 very small, a sub-marginal line of thick lunules joined together, both wings with brown 

 terminal line, with small pale lunular marks against it, a small black anal spot, a small 

 black lunular mark in each of the three following interspaces, capped with pale blue. 



Female. Upperside pale blue. Furewing with broad black costa and outer 

 margins, a black spot at the end of the cell, touching the broad costal band, a white 

 patch at the end of the cell, one beyond it in the lower discal interspace and two smaller 

 ones below divided by the second medial nervule ; in some examples all these white 

 spots are more or less fused together. Hmdioing with the costal space very broadly 

 blackish, the outer marginal black band narrow, the black colour running up on some 

 of the veins, a black sub-terminal lunular mark in each of the three anal interspaces 

 with a fine white line on their outer side. Underside as in the male, the metallic blue 

 scales at the anal angle sometimes absent, sometimes slightly indicated. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 5 inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Sikkim. 



Distribution. — The male type came from the Meplay Valley and the female from 

 the Donat Range, Watson records it from the Chin Hills, Elwes from the Karen Hills, 

 Mauders from the Shan States, there is a male in coll. Druce from Maymyo and a 

 female from Sikkim ; it is in the B. M. also from Tilin Yaw, Ataran Valley, Haundraw 

 Valley, Amherst Road, and Dudwatong in Upper Burma. 



ARHOPALA BIRMANA. 

 Plate 696, figs. 4, (J , 4a, ? , 4b, $ . 



Panchala hirmana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 531. 



Arliopala hirmana, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 274 (1890). Grose-Smith, Rhop. Exot. Lye. 



pt. 44, pi. 15, figs. 1, 2, 3 (1898). Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 144. 

 Acesina arisha, de Niceville, MS. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 49. de Niceville, iil. 



p. 369, pi. F, fig. 19, ,?. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark blue. Forewing with costal and outer marginal 

 Oands narrowly black. Hindwing with the costal space broadly, the outer marginal 

 band narrowly black ; tail black, tipped with white. Cilia black, outwardly edged with 

 white ; a black spot at the anal angle, another in the first interspace, and a small one 

 between them, not very prominent. Underside chocolate-brown, markings a little 

 darker than the ground colour, with white edges. Forewing with a somewhat narrow 

 sub-basal bar in the cell, a larger one in the middle, and a still larger one at the end, 

 a spot on the costa touching the inner end of the last, and three other costal spots 



