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distinct tail, only a very slight tooth. The specimens, however, from the Philippines 

 and Batchian and Malacca have a slight tail and are not so uniformly dark as those 

 from Borneo on the underside of the secondaries. These specimens seem to form a 

 sort of " transit " to fulgida Hew., as the upperside is not so intensely blue as in the 

 Bornean specimens. It appears to be a local and rare insect, as only 19 specimens 

 have passed through my hands, and I have not seen many in any collection, except that 

 of the late Mr. de Niceville, which contained 12, and added to our knowledge of 

 the distribution of the species, there being specimens from Perak, Sumatra, Penang> 

 and Tenasserim (Dannat Range). 



Arhopala artegal (Doherty). 



Flos artegal Doherty, J. A. S. B. vol. lvii. pt. 2, p. 423, pi. xxiii. fig. 5 (1889). 

 Arhopala artegal de Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. iii. p. 225 (1890). 



Hab. Mergui. 



Expanse, d , 35 mm. 



I have not seen this species, but from the figure it is very close to anniella Hewitson- 

 Mr. Doherty states that the two specimens he took were males ; were it not that he is 

 so accurate an observer I should doubt this, and if one can judge from the figure there 

 is every appearance of a female in the shape of the wings. It is not impossible that 

 these may prove to be females of Hewitson's previous species. 



Aehopala apidanus (Cramer). (Plate V. figs. 17 & 17 a.) 



Papilio apidanus Cramer, Pap. Ex. vol. ii. pi. cxxxvii. figs. F & G-, g (1777) ; Fabricius, Lep. Ins. 



vol. ii. p. 119. n. 530 (1781) ; id. Mant. Ins. vol. ii. p. 69. n. 658 (1787). 

 Hesperia apidanus Fabricius, Ent. Syst. vol. iii. pt. 1, p. 280. n. 78 (1793). 

 Polyommatus apidanus Godart, Enc. Meth. vol. ix. p. 652. n. 118 (1823). 

 Amblypodia apidanus Horsfield, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. p. 100. n. 32 (1829) ; Horsfield and Moore, Cat. 



Lep. Mus. E.I.C. vol. 1. p. 39. n. 53, pi. i. figs. 5 larva, 5 a pupa (1857) ; Butler, Cat. Fabr. Lep. 



B.M. p. 180. n. 2 (1869) ; id. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 549. n. 12 (1877). 

 Satadra apidanus Moore, Journ. A. S. B. vol. liii.pt. 2, p. 41 (1884). 

 Panchala apidanus Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 273. n. 3, woodcut n. 85, <$ (1885). 

 Thecla apidanus Horsfield, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. pi. iv. figs. 3 larva, 3 a pupa (1829). 

 Amblypodia apidanus Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 353. n. 7. 

 Papilio dorimond Stoll, Suppl. Cramer, pi. xxxvii. figs. 4, 4a, $ (1790). 

 Arhopala apidanus de Niceville, Butt. India, vol. iii. p. 253 (1890) ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 



1895, p. 590. 

 Arrhopala apidanus de Niceville and Martin, J. A. S. B. vol. lxiv. pt. 2, p. 466 (1895). 

 Var. palaw anus Staudinger, Iris, vol. ii. p. 130 (1889). 

 Flos ahamus Doherty, J. A. S. B. vol. Ix. pt. 2, p. 33, pi. i. fig. 6, $ (1891). 



Hab. Mergui ; Moulmein ; Malacca ; Singapore ; Sumatra ; Java ; Borneo ; Nias ; 

 Tenasserim ; Philippines ; Sambawa ; Balabac ; Assam. 

 Expanse, 6 ? , 38-50 mm. 



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