60 ME. G-. T. BETHUNE-BAKER : A REVISION OF THE 



Akhopala minnetta (Butler). 

 Amblypodia minnetta Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. x. p. 152 (1882). 



Hab. Duke of York Island ; New Britain ; New Guinea. 



Expanse, 6 , 41 mm. 



This species is probably a local race of Arhopala helius, but is separable easily by the 

 quite pale under surface and by the spots being somewhat smaller. 



Arhopala albopunctata (Hewitson). 



Amblypodia albopunctata Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. p. 14 c. n. 89, pi. hi b. figs. 43 & 44, $ 



(1869). 

 Narathura albopunctata Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zoology, vol. xxi. p. 44 (1886). 

 Arhopala albopunctata de Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. iii. p. 261. n. 821, frontispiece fig. 126 (1900). 



Hab. Burma. 



Expanse, 6 37-44, $ 33-42 mm. 



The figure of the female given on the frontispiece by de Niceville, in his ' Butterflies 

 of India,' vol. iii., is not like Hewitson's female specimens ; the underside markings are 

 almost entirely disintegrated and practically resolve themselves into white spots and 

 dots, though it is just possible to trace the sequence of the pattern, and there is scarcely 

 any trace of the oval black spots at the anal angle of the upperside mentioned by him. 

 This species can be immediately separated from lyccenaria Feld. by the metallic morpho- 

 blue of its upper surface, which in the latter insects is somewhat shining pale violet, 

 and the strong contrast of the dark ground and white spots and dots of the underside 

 is very different to lyccenaria. 



Arhopala lyc^naria (Felder). 



Amblypodia lyccenaria Felder, Wien. ent. Monatsch. vol. iv. p. 396. n. 8 (1860) ; Hewitson, Cat. 



Lye. B.M. p. 12. n. 54 (1862) ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 354. n. 12. 

 Arhopala lyccenaria Felder, Keise Novara, Lep. vol. ii. p. 232. n. 258, pi. xxix. fig. 13, $ (1865). 

 Narathura lyccenaria Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 269. n. 15, woodcut n. 79, $ (1885). 

 Amblypodia olinda Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 354, pi. xxxiii. fig. 5, ? . 

 Amblypodia buxtoni Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep., Suppl. p. 22. n. 104, pi. viii. suppl. figs. 68 & 69, ? 



(1878). 

 Narathura buxtoni Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 464. n. 20, pi. xliv. fig. 18, $ (1886). 

 Arhopala lyccenaria de Niceville, Butt. India, vol. iii. p. 262. 

 Arhopala buxtoni, de Niceville, loc. cit. 

 Arhopala olinda Druce, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 591. 



Hab. Malacca (interior) ; Penang ; Singapore ; Borneo ; Sumatra. 



Expanse, <j 34-38, $ 36-39 mm. 



A. lyccenaria is a species that has been rare hitherto ; I do not think, however, 

 that olinda Druce can be separated from it. Felder's original type is small and 

 weak-looking ; but I have other specimens before me, undoubted lyccenaria, that are 



