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markless, followed by a pale broad internal edging to the usual submarginal row, this 

 band of pale edging having a lilac tinge at the anal area; a black spot at the lobe and 

 between the second and lower median nervules, between and over which is a scattering 

 (more or less plentiful) of greenish metallic scales. 



$ . Upperside : both wings blue, slightly paler and less lustrous than in male. 

 Primaries with costa broadly, posterior margin very broadly, and apex yet more broadly 

 black ; secondaries with costa and upper part of the posterior margin very broadly 

 black indeed, but the margin of the anal area much more narrowly black. 



At first sight this unmistakable species scarcely looks in its right place here ; its size 

 and shape, however, bring it at once into this group, and a careful examination of 

 the under-surface pattern soon locates it ; the markings of the primaries are exceed- 

 ingly close to micale Blanch., whilst in a female in my collection the transverse band 

 of the secondaries is quite traceable, and in other specimens before me isolated spots 

 are discernible, so that I have no hesitation in fixing it here. 



Arhopala sophrosyne (Grose-Smith). 



Amblypodia sop>hrosyne Grose-Smith, Ent. Mo. Mag. xxv. p. 300 (1889). 



Arhopala sophrosyne Grose-Smith, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loncl. 1891, p. 370, pi. xxxii. fig. 9, c? • 



Hob. Guadalcanal- Island (Solomon Group). 



Expanse 49-53 mm. 



This species is described by Mr. Grose-Smith with tails, but figured by Mr. Druce 

 without tails, his specimen having the tails broken off. It is a tailed species and very 

 distinct. 



Arhopala micale Blanchard. 



Arhopala micale Blanchard, Boisd., Hombron & Jacquinot, Voy. Pole Sud, Lep. pi. iii. figs. 11, 12. 

 Amblypodia micale Boisd. MS., Hewitson, Cat. Lycsenidee B.M. p. 7 (non adatha Hew. pi. iv. <$ , 



figs. 29, 30, 31) (1862) ; id. 111. Diurn. Lep., LycEenidse, p. 8 (1863). 

 Amblypodia superba Rober, Iris, vol. i. pt. 4, p. 199, Taf. ix. fig. 3 (1887). 

 Arhopala micale Blanch, et superba Rober, Staudinger, Ex. Scbmett. p. 280, Taf. 96, $ (1888). 



Hab. (Amboina ]) ; New Guinea ; Batchian ; Iialmaheira ; Gilolo. 



Expanse, 6 52-61, ? 45-59 mm. 



cj . Upperside : both wings lustrous ultramarine-blue, shading into purplish in certain 

 lights on the costal and posterior margins in primaries ; costa in secondaries broadly 

 blackish, posterior margin narrow ; abdominal fold entirely fuscous up to submedian 

 nervure ; tail tipped with white. Underside : both wings darkish brown, all the 

 markings dark brown, with paler margins ; primaries with three discoidal spots 

 increasing in size, partly margined with pale blue, this colour being confined to the 

 inner edge of the large spot closing the cell, the two usual spots just beneath the cell; 

 the transverse band, edged with whitish on the upper part of the inner edge, almost 



