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short, strongly recurved. Antennae short, about one-third the length of the costa. Eyes 

 smooth. Palpi porrect, longish ; thorax stout; body robust; legs short and thick. The 

 arrangement of the discoidal nervules is quite remarkable, and I believe is peculiar to 

 this genus and to Iraota Moore — at least, I do not know of any other " Old World " 

 Lycaenidse which have it. Horsfield figures the larvae of the usual Lycsenid shape 

 with small head and second segment much larger, segments getting wider up to the 

 seventh, then decreasing ; the constrictions between the segments are fairly well marked, 

 the sides of the body being slightly bristled. Pupa attenuated in a very unusual 

 manner, with the head round, thorax humped, abdominal segments slender, and tail 

 sharply pointed. 



Mr. Doherty in describing the egg of A. narada Horsfield says it is " large, coarse, 

 and overlaid with white, roughly tubercular, and indented with spaces obscurely 

 hexagonal. It greatly resembles that of most of the ' TlMcIince.' " 



The tegumen and lateral supports of the prehensores are more fully developed in 

 this genus, whilst the clasps though smaller are very unusual in shape. Penis small. 



Ambltpodia naeada Horsfield. (Plate IV. figs. 3 & 3 a.) 

 Amblypodia narada Horsfield, Cat. Lcp. Mus. E.I.C. p. 98. n. 30. 

 Thecla narada, Horsfield, op. cit. pi. i. fig. 8 (J, pi. iv. figs. 4 larva, 4 a pupa (1829) ; Horsfield and 



Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. vol. i. p. 39. n. 51, pi. i. figs. 4 larva, 4 a pupa (1857) ; Distant, 



Rhop. Malay, p. 27G. n. 1, pi. xxi. fig. 23, <$ (1885); de .Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. iii. p. 210 



(1890). 

 Amblypodia taoona Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 835 ; de Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. iii. 



p. 211. 

 Amblypodia narada Druce,Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1895, p. 587 ; de Niceville and Martin, J. A. S. B. 



vol. Ixiv. pt. 2, p. 463 (1895). 



Hal. Mergui ; Penang; Malacca, Java, Andamans, Mindanao, Palawan, Mindoro ; 

 Borneo ; Nias. 



Expanse, 6 51-56, ? 50-58 mm. 



6 . Upperside : both wings bright purplish blue (I cannot call any male Amblypodia 

 that I have seen true ultramarine-blue, as all had a tinge of purple). Primaries with a 

 moderately broad blackish apex, decreasing in width along the posterior margin ; costa 

 rather narrowly black, but variable. Secondaries with costa and apex very broadly 

 (hut variably) brown, tapering down narrowly to the upper median nervule, whence to 

 the anal angle the margin is quite narrow; internal margin very broadly brown. 

 Underside : both wings rufous brown ; a dark sinuous line passes from the apex of the 

 primaries obliquely through both wings, terminating above the centre of the abdominal 

 margin ; from this line to the base the whole of the ground is dark blackish brown 

 with no definite markings therein. In the primaries midway between this line and 

 the posterior margin there is a row of obscure reddish spots darkly edged, those nearest 



