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second being small, the third is dark and large and occupies the lower median angle ; 

 transverse band very wide, composed of six spots, the first the smallest, the first four 

 spots being confluent, inclined outwards, with a very slight curve at the fourth, spots 

 5 and 6 confluent, shifted slightly inwards ; submarginal row obscure, marginal 

 row more obscure ; sub median and subdiscal areas pale. Secondaries with four very 

 distinct basal spots below each other, fourth one shifted well inwards, followed by 

 three largish spots below each other, second one shifted very slightly inwards ; cell 

 closed by a large spot, below which is a small one in the lower median angle ; 

 transverse band composed of eight spots, the first two large, the second very large and 

 shifted outwards and touching both the spot closing the cell and the third spot which 

 is shifted well outwards, fourth shifted again out, fifth slightly inwards, sixth very 

 slightly outwards, seventh angular spot confluent with the eighth, which is almost 

 bisected, shifted well inwards ; submarginal row obscure, a deep black small spot at 

 the anal angle preceded by two other black spots, which are Avell covered with pale 

 azure-blue metallic scales, which also edge the anal spot above. 



? . Upperside : both wings paler blue tinged with violet ; primaries with a widish 

 brown costa, increasing suddenly just before the end of the cell, where a blackish 

 patch is thus formed invading the blue ; outer margin broad, increasing somewhat 

 towards the apex. Secondaries with less broad margins than those of the male. 

 Underside exactly like that of the male. 



This species can at once be separated from semperi Bethune-Baker by the 

 purplish colour of the upperside, by the broad outer margins, and by the altogether 

 paler tone of the underside, as also by the pattern being more confluent than that of 

 semperi. 



I have before me a male from Perak, in which the outer margins are quite narrow. 

 The male type is in the collection of Mr. Rothschild, and the female in that of the 

 late Mr. de Niceville, now in the Calcutta Museum. 



Arhopala dajagaka (Staudinger, MS.). 

 Arhopala dajagaka Bethune-Baker and Druce, P. Z. S. Lond. 1896, p. 660, pi. xxix. figs. 11 <£, 12 $ . 



Hab. Kina Balu ; Labuan ; Tameang-Lajang. 



Expanse, 6 & 5 , 55-56 mm. 



This species may be readily distinguished from semperi mihi by the absence of a tail 

 and by the colour of the underside, which is of a somewhat peculiar greenish brown, 

 and by the isolated spot in the subdiscal area below the second spot in the discoidal 

 cell of the primaries lying about midway between the median nervure and the inner 

 margin. It may equally well be separated from bar ami mihi by the darker blue of 

 the upperside, the narrow black outer margins, which are decidedly broad in barami, 

 and by the under-surface differences just enumerated. 



