ARHOPALA.— ZINASPA. 



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brown. Underside greyish brown, slightly rufescent on foro wing ; an undulating broad 

 band of rufescent brown crosses the fore and hind wings, another inwardly on the latter half 

 across the wing, then two or three spots ; near exterior margin of both wings is an indistinct 

 angulated line ; fore wing angulated exteriorly ; hind wing rounded ; tail, one. 

 " Expanse of wings 1| inch." (Mooi-e, Cat. Lep. E. I. C.) 



Appears to be common at Kiukiang in Central China. 



According to Mr. de Niceville, A. rama is one of the most widely distributed 

 and abundant species of the genus. It occurs in oak-woods in the outer 

 ranges of the Western Himalayas up to an elevation of about 9000 feet. 

 In Sikkim it is much rarer, and has been taken in June and July. 



Arhopala turbata. 



Ambhjpodia turbata, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 855 ; Pryer, Rhop. Nihon. 



p. 11, pi. ii. fig. 16 (1886). 

 Satadra teesta, de Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. Iv. pt. 2, p. 253, pi. xi. fig. 3, ^ 



(1886). 



Arhopala teesta, de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 250, pi. xxvii. fig. 197,,^ (1890). 



" Male. Form and size of A. diardi ; but the secondaries comparatively rather larger, the wings 

 above dull blue instead of violet, and with a rather broad black external border : under 

 surface more like A. apidaaus in pattern and coloration, but the costal thirds of all the 

 wings washed with lilac, across which the olive-brown bands run ; the abdominal half of 

 secondaries crossed by three irregularly arched nebulous blackish bauds, increasing in 

 intensity and in extent as they approach the outer margin ; the basal area also ashy instead 

 of dark brown, and the markings on the basal half of the primaries small and more feebly 

 indicated than those of the external half. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines. 



" Female. Primaries above bright ultramarine, with a very broad black apical area and external 

 border ; secondaries and body blackish brown ; wings below more like A. centaurus than the 

 male, the arched abdominal bands obsolete, replaced by a continuation of the ordinary pale- 

 edged macular bands. Expanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines." (Butler, I, c.) 



In Japan this species has been recorded from Nagasaki and Nikko. I 

 took specimens in the Province of Satsuma in May, flying in company with 

 A. japonica, and I have received examples taken at Gensan, Corea, by native 

 collectors. It appears to be always rare. 



There is a fine series of A. teesta, which is certainly synonymous with 

 A. turbata, in Moller's collection, from Darjiling. 



Distribution. Japan, Corea, Sikkim, Sylhet, and Tenasserim. 



Genus ZINASPA. 

 Zinaspa, de Niceville, Butt. Ind. iii. p. 451 (1890). 



" Allied to Eapala, Moore, from which it differs in both sexes in the antennae being shorter, the 



