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surface of both wings is suffused with chocolate-brown, the lower disc of the forewiug 

 and the upper disc of the hindwing being palest. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing with the cell and a small portion outside and 

 below it purple-blue. Hindwing blackish, with a small space near the base with some 

 purple-blue colour visible. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ li% to ly^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



DiSTRiBuriON. — The types came from Margharita, Upper Assam; it is in our 

 collection from the Khasia Hills. 



ARHOPALA ARIEL. 

 Plate 697, figs. 4, .J , 4a, ? , 4b, $ . 



Acesina ariel, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1891, p. 33. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 634, 



pi. 44, fig. 9, cJ. 

 Arhopala ariel, Betliune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 145. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purple-blue. Forewing with a broad outer marginal 

 black border, which runs narrowing down the costal margin beyond its middle and is 

 continued in a fine line to the base. Hindwing with the margins broadly blackish, the 

 blue colour limited to a small space in the middle of the wing ; tail black, tipped with 

 white. Cilia of both wings black, with white tips on the hindwing and lower portion 

 of the forewing. Underside chocolate-brown ; except for a white space on the lower 

 disc of the forewing and a very large white spot attached to the middle of the costa of 

 the hindwing all the markings are similar to those in A. ■paraganesa and are very little 

 darker than the ground colour, which has suffused chocolate-brown marks between the 

 bands on both wings, making the entire surface of both wings (except the white 

 patches) very dark and densely packed. 



Female similar to the male above and below, except that the black outer marginal 

 bands are broader. 



Expanse of wings, t ? 1t% to ly*^ inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



Distribution. — The types came from Margharita, it is in our collection from the 

 Khasia Hills. 



INDO-MALAYAN, CHINESE AND JAPANESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Arho2}aIa meander, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, Ent. p. 76 (1832). Synonyms, Arhopala adherbal, 

 Grose-Smith, Rhop. Exot. iii. p. 10, pi. 25, fig. 3 (1902). Arhopala appianus, Grose-Smith, id. 

 p. 11, pi. 25, fig. 4. Habitat, South-east Borneo, New Guinea, and the Islands to Queensland. 



Arhopala pseudo-centaurus, Amblypodia pseudo-centaurus, Doubleday, List. Lap. B. M. ii. p. 24 

 (1847). Habitat, Java. 

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