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d . Upperside : both wings deep blue ; primaries with a narrow black costa and 

 less narrow black posterior margin ; secondaries with a very broad brown apical area, 

 tapering off towards the base of costa; posterior margin rather narrowly black; 

 abdominal fold greyish brown. Underside : both wings golden brown, with dark spots 

 palely margined. Primaries with three discal spots, beneath each of which is another, 

 two below the median nervure, the third in the angle of the lower median nervule ; 

 transverse band composed of a curved row of four confluent spots, followed by two 

 larger spots shifted inwards and another much smaller one below the lower median 

 nervule ; submarginal row somewhat indistinct ; submedian area paler. Secondaries 

 with four basal spots, second and fourth shifted inwards, the latter beyond the internal 

 nervure, followed by three larger spots ; cell closed by a subquadrate spot, below which 

 is a small triangular one ; chain-like band composed of two distinct upper spots, the 

 third and fourth confluent shifted right outwards, fifth inwards, sixth slightly outwards, 

 the angular seventh spot inwards and confluent with the long eighth ; submarginal 

 row fairly distinct, the pale edging of which is much more pronounced at the anal 

 angle above the metallic spots ; a black velvety spot occupies the anal angle, and a 

 small dark one the margin between the second and lower median nervule, between 

 which the space is filled with metallic-blue scales, which also edge the spots above ; 

 tail brown, tipped with white. 



I have not seen a female of this species ; it is a near ally of A. adorea de Niceville, 

 but may be recognised by its darker blue, rather wide black borders, whilst below it is 

 decidedly darker in colour, and the transverse band of the primaries is quite different 

 in shape, which also applies to this band in the secondaries ; the difference is, however, 

 so difficult to convey in words that I must refer my readers to the figure ; there is no 

 costal spot in the primaries in front of the transverse band. 



In de Niceville's collection I find several males from Sumatra and I have two before 

 me from Borneo. 



Aehopala adorea de Niceville. 



Arhopala adorea de Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. iii. p. 238. 11. 789, pi. frontispiece fig. 139, $ (1890). 

 Arrhopala adorea de Niceville and Martin, Butt. Sumatra, Journ. A. S. B. vol. lxiv. pt. 2, p. 465. 

 n. 391 (1895). 



Ha b. Sikkim ; Khasia Hills ; Tenasserim Valley ; Burma ; Singapore ; Sumatra ; 

 Malacca. 



Expanse, d & 2 , 50-56 mm. 



There appear to be two forms of this species, one distinctly violet in shade, the other 



almost blue, and they have their respective females : beneath they are the same, but the 



colour above is readily separable ; the blue form has rather broader outer margins than 



he purpler one, and I believe has often been confused with " vihari Feld.," with which it 



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