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white. Underside : both wings chestnnt-brown, with darker spots with pale en- 

 codings. Primaries with three discal spots ; below the second and third is another 

 spot, the second in the paler submedian area, that below the third at the angle of the 

 lower median nervule ; the transverse band composed of five confluent spots, almost 

 straight, but slightly inclined outwards ; beneath this, under the lower median nervule, 

 is sometimes a very minute dot ; submarginal row somewhat indistinct, extreme 

 margin excessively fine dark brown. Secondaries with four basal spots, the second 

 and fourth shifted inwards, followed by three larger spots in a straight line below each 

 other ; cell closed by a long narrow spot, below which is a very small one in the lower 

 median angle ; transverse band composed of two upper detached spots, the second 

 shifted outwards, four confluent spots shifted right outwards, the lower two of which 

 are each slightly shifted inwards, seventh and eighth spots quite confluent, the angular 

 seventh being shifted well inwards ; submarginal row fairly distinct, the upper white 

 margin of which reaches the internal nervure ; anal spot black, and a black dash is 

 between the lower and second median nervules, the space between and above which is 

 filled with metallic bluish-green scales. 



$ . Upperside : both wings dull bluish purple, brownish purple in certain lights. 

 Primaries with very broad posterior and apical brown margins and a broad brown 

 costa. Secondaries with very broad margins all round, in fact the purple only occupying 

 an area a little beyond the discoidal cell. Underside like that of male, but in the 

 transverse band in the secondaries the third of the confluent spots is shifted decidedly 

 inwards ; this is constant in the five females before me. 



The late Dr. Staudinger most kindly lent me his two original types of this species, 

 which were figured in the ' Iris,' vol. ii. pi. ii. fig. 1, ? ; but there must have been a mistake 

 with this figure, for it does not agree with the type female, nor yet with any female 1 

 possess, neither with any male. There is no spot beneath the lower median nervule of 

 the transverse band in the primaries, and in the secondaries the two upper spots of the 

 transverse band are quite detached and are distinct and well defined, not confluent and 

 almost obliterated as in the figure. The spots and markings are also much sharper 

 than the figure would lead one to suppose. The only specimen from Mindoro is bright 

 almost ultramarine-blue, not dull purplish as usual. The peculiar colour of the 

 upperside, brownish violet, will separate this species from any of its neighbours. 



Arhopala khamti Doherty. 

 Arhopala khamti Doherty, J. A. S. B. vol. l.\. pt. 2, p. 32, pi. i. fig. 5, J 1 (1891). 



Hob. Margherita, Upper Assam. 



I have not been able to see this species, but from the description it is evidently near 

 (£iiea Hew. 



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