AMBLYPODIA GROUP OF THE LYCENIDE, SI 



Expanse, -" & + , 04 mm. 



This species is nearest auxesia Hew., but the colour of the male is quite different, 

 being somewhat silvery, shading into purplish at the borders, whereas auxesia Hew. is 

 slightly greenish and very metallic, with a white spot at the end of the cell, and very 

 broad black costa and outer margin in the primaries. This species is paler in the 

 female, with a dark spot closing the cell in the midst of a whitish patch, whereas 

 Hewitson's species is purplish, darker in its male, and has no spot at the end of the 

 cell. The underside pattern is likewise different, as described. 



Akiiopala anarte (Hewitson). 

 Amblypodia anarte Hewitson, Cat. Lycaenidie B.M. p. 5. n. 20, pi. iii. figs. 1G & 17, $ (1862) ; 

 Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1873, p. 353. n. 9 ; Doherty, Joum. A. S. 13. vol. lviii. pt. 2, 

 p. 417 (1889). 

 Arhopala anarte de Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. iii. p. 260. n. 819 (1890). 



Hab. Myitta ; Burma ; Malacca (interior) ; Borneo ; Makassar. 



Expanse, s G1-G9, 2 65-68 mm. 



6 • Upperside : both wings brilliant pale morpho-blue, tinged with lilac ; primaries 

 with very narrow brown costa and outer margins ; secondaries with broad brown 

 costa and very narrow outer margins. Tail fine, long, tipped with white. Uuderside : 

 both wings pale brown with a slight chestnut tinge, with darker spots palely encircled. 

 Primaries with three increasing cell-spots, the second and third very large indeed, the 

 second being the largest by its confluence with two spots over it extending up to 

 the costal nervure, and it is also joined to the third spot by an additional one 

 along the upper margin of the cell ; below the third spot is a large one in the 

 lower median angle, generally connected with the third by a small intermediate spot ; 

 underneath the first and second, in the subdiscal area, is a very large spot half divided 

 on the upper part of the centre ; transverse band very unusual in form, divided into 

 two distinct portions, the upper part forming a broad arc of five increasing spots, 

 beginning over the third cell-spot and extending to the submarginal row ; the lower 

 part is composed of two large ovate spots below each other, shifted so far inwards as 

 nearly to touch the third cell-spot ; submarginal row very indefinite and indistinct. 

 Secondaries with a slight lilac suffusion in the upper half; at the extreme basal 

 extremity of the costa are one or two spots, with four large basal spots below each 

 other, second and fourth shifted inwards, followed by three larger spots below 

 each other ; cell closed by a very large irregular spot, below which is a small one in the 

 lower median angle ; transverse band composed of four pairs of spots, the second spot 

 shifted outwards, the second pair is shifted right outwards, the lower of which is the 

 further out, the third pair well inwards, fourth pair inwards again, composed of 

 the usual angular spot connected by a line or by a narrow neck with the long eighth 

 spot ; submarginal row fairly distinct, marginal row less so ; a black velvety spot at the 



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