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and apical area more broadly still, purplish brown ; secondaries dark brown, with an 

 obscure blue patch occupying the cell or thereabouts ; no tail. Underside : both wings 

 pale ochreous brown, tinged with pinkish ; spots and fascia darker, margined with whitish. 

 Primaries with three increasing discal spots, beneath and above the third another spot, 

 that above being close on the costa, subdiscal space up to the lower median branch dark ; 

 transverse band composed of six laterally margined spots ending on the lower median 

 nervule ; the first spot on the costa is small, second shifted well outwards is larger, third 

 with its inner margin only shifted a little inwards, fourth large spot shifted well outwards 

 and oblique (these spots are sharply margined and form a slight irregular curve), fifth 

 and sixth spots are indefinite somewhat as to their margins, and the sixth is shifted 

 outwards from the fifth ; below this is usually another very indefinite and obscure 

 spot, not reaching quite to the submedian nervule, and not always present. Secondaries 

 more pinkish than the primaries, with four basal spots, the third shifted slightly out- 

 wards, followed by four larger spots and occupying equivalent positions ; cell closed by 

 an irregular spot, below which is another small one touching the third spot of the 

 previous row above, and touching the spot closing the cell are two others, the upper of 

 which is shifted outwards ; transverse band beginning on the upper discoidal nervule 

 and composed of six small spots, the second shifted well outwards, but inclined 

 inwards, the third right inwards, fourth outwards, fifth right inwards, the sixth very 

 small, slightly inwards ; these with the lowest of the two rows of four spots form an 

 irregular inner half-circle round the lobe, posterior and abdominal margins ; sub- 

 marginal row as usual, the anal portion of which is broadly margined internally with 

 greyish ; margin obscurely and darkly spotted ; the usual submarginal row followed 

 by a slight darker marginal spotting ; apical area slightly dusted with greyish ; 

 submedian area from the transverse band pale. 



? . Exactly like the male, except that the obscure blue patch in the secondaries is 

 almost absent. 



This is apparently a rare insect, and at present is only recorded from the island of 

 Palawan ; it is rather near admete, var. waigeoensis, but may be separated by its smaller 

 size, its more violet colour, which is very much less extensive in the primaries and is 

 almost absent in the secondaries, whilst beneath it is more uniform in tone and pattern 

 and is much more spotted. 



Arhopala belphcebe Doherty. 



Arhopala belphcebe Doherty, J. A. S. B. vol. lviii. pt. 2, p. 421, pi. xxxiii. fig. 18 (1889) ; de Niceville, 

 Butt. India, vol. iii. p. 272 (1890). 



Hab. Myitta ; Tenasserim Valley ; Burma. 



Expanse 3 mm. 



I have not seen this insect, but from the figure and description it evidently belongs 



