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dislocated. Both Mr. Butler and Mr. de Niceville are right in considering this species 

 distinct from hypomuta Hew. It is quite distinct. I have examined the type of each 

 most carefully and have no hesitation in saying that they are so distinct that probably 

 both Mr. Hewitson, and certainly Mr. Distant, wrongly identified Felder's species. I 

 am led to this conclusion from Mr. Distant's figures, which do not resemble the species 

 in either shape, colour, or pattern. It is quite different in shape from hypomuta, its 

 costa being very strongly arched and the wing very much broader in the primaries ; in 

 the secondaries the outline is more angular, hypomuta having the outer margin a very 

 even curve, it (amphimuta) is also half as large again and the underside pattern will be 

 seen, on reference to my figures, to be also different. Amphimuta appears to be an 

 exceedingly rare species, and as yet I have not seen a female of it. 



Abhopala inornata (Felder). (Plate II. fig. 8, 6 -) 



Amblypodia inornata Felder, Wien. ent. Monatsch. vol. iv. p. 396 (1860); Hewitson, Cat. Lycsenidae 



B.M. p. 12 (1862). 

 Arhopala inornata Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. vol. ii. p. 234, pi. xxix. fig. 12, $ (1865). 

 Narathura inornata Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 271, woodcut n. 81, <J (1885). 



Hab. Malacca, interior ; Philippine Islands. 



Expanse, d 49, 2 49-50 mm. 



6 . Upperside : both wings rather bright violet-purple, with the linear brown costa 

 and outer margin in the primaries ; secondaries with a broadish brown costa and linear 

 outer margin. Underside : both wings greyish brown, with slightly darker markings 

 palely encircled. Primaries with all the pattern very obscure, with three increasing 

 cell-spots, below the second and third are two almost obsolete spots divided by the 

 lower median nervule ; transverse band composed of five spots, beginning below the 

 upper discoidal nervule, the first three confluent, with an outward inclination, the third 

 spot being angled on its interior edge and so made almost confluent with the fourth 

 and fifth, which are directly below each other and shifted slightly inwards ; submedian 

 area slightly paler than the ground-colour. Secondaries with pattern plainer than in 

 primaries, with four small cramped spots very near the base of wings, followed by three 

 decidedly larger ones below each other ; cell closed by a reniform spot, below which is 

 a small one in the lower median angle ; transverse band composed of eight spots, the 

 second being very much larger and directly below the first, the third and fourth 

 confluent, shifted right out on to the outer edge of the second, fifth and sixth confluent 

 with the fourth, but with their inner edges only shifted slightly inwards, seventh 

 angular spot shifted right inwards, disconnected, but confluent with the eighth long spot ; 

 submarginal row represented by a band of dark shading. 



$ . Upperside : both wings pale violet, with a broad brown costa and outer margins 

 increasing towards the apex, which is largely brown in the primaries. In the 



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