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Expanse, 6 & 2 , 46-48 mm. 



Hewitson's figures are very fair. I have a male from the same locality as his type, 

 in which the colour is rather deep purplish blue, much deeper than usual. 



Aehopala anthoee (Hewitson). (Plate IV. figs. 18 & 18 a.) 



Ambhjpodia anthore Hewitson, B. M. Cat. Lye. pi. iii. figs. 21 & 22 (1862) ; id. 111. Drum. Lep., 



Lye. p. 6 (1865). 

 Arhopala anthore Hewitson, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 280, pi. xcvi. (1888). 



Hab. Batehian, Halmaheira, and Ternate. 



Expanse, 6 4o-48, 2 about 44 mm. 



From the preceding species anthore may be recognised by its larger size, brilliant 

 blue, and by its underside being spotted rather than lined, as in Felder's species. From 

 helius Cram, it may be known in that its underside is uniform dark brown, the spots 

 being merely marked out by the white edging, and no darker than the ground, whilst 

 in Cramer's insect the spots are very decidedly darker than the ground-colour. The 

 colour above is almost the same, but anthore Hew. is usually more suffused with purple 

 in the primaries than is helius Cram. In distribution the species is very local though 

 apparently plentiful where it occurs. I can trace it only from Batchian, Halmaheira, 

 and Ternate. The genitalia have the tegumen hooded, extending right down to the 

 extremities of the side supports ; the hooks are straightish, the clasps suboval, and 

 the penis small and slender. 



Aehopala helius (Cramer). (Plate I. fig. 21 6 , & var. anthelius Stgr., fig. 22 d .) 



Papilio helius Cramer, Pap Exot. pi. cci. figs. F, G (1782). 



Polyommatus helms Lucas, Lep. Exot. pi. xliv. fig. 4. 



Arhopala phryxus Boisd. Voy. de 1' Astrolabe, Ent. p. 75. 



Amblypodia phryxus Westwood, Doubl. & Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 478. 



Amblypodia helius Westwood, Doubl. & Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 478. 



Amblypodia helius var. anthelius Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 281 (1888). 



Amblypodia tamijrus Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. vol. ii. p. 230, pi. xxviii. fig. 30 (1865). 



Amblypodia helius Ribbe, Iris, vol. ii. p. 256 (1889). 



Amblypodia sophax Mathew, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1887, p. 47. 



Arhopala helianthes Grose-Smith, Rhop. Exot. vol. iii. p. 11, pi. xxv. figs. 5, 6, 7 (1902). 



Hab. Amboina ; Aru ; Tokal Key ; New Guinea ; Ceram ; Waigeoe ; Solomon 

 Islands ; Fergusson Island. 



Expanse, 6 , 41-44 mm. 



<$ . Upperside : both wings brilliant morpho-blue. Primaries shading into deep 

 rich slightly purplish blue over the cell and in the apical area, and slightly on the 

 upper half of the posterior margin ; costa dark brown from costal nervure to margin, 

 beyond extremity of nervure very narrowly brown ; posterior margin less narrowly 



