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in the lower submedian interspace somewhat near the outer margin ; tails and lobe 

 velvety black, above which are two ill-defined white marks. 



$ . Upperside : both wings steely lustrous bluish ; costa and outer margins of 

 primaries narrowly brown ; costa of secondaries broadly, outer margin narrowly, brown ; 

 two tails, brown tipped with white. Underside exactly like the male. 



This is a very beautiful and distinct species. Mr. II. H. Druce has figured, in the 

 ' Proceedings Zool. Soc. Lond.' for the year 1S95, a male from Borneo with metallic- 

 green interspaces; this is a very beautiful local race. Two males now before me from 

 Sumatra have no trace of the green in any light, but are deep bright blue. 



This species may be recognized at a glance from any others ; it is very much smaller 

 in size. 



Amblypodia Horsfield. 



Ambhjpodia Horsfield, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. p. 98 (1829) ; Moore, Lep. Cey. vol. i. p. 113; Distant, 

 Rhop. Malay, p. 275 (1885) ; de Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. iii. p. 208 (1890) ; Staudinger, 

 Exot. Sclniiett. (in parte), p. 281 (1888) ; Schatz and Ruber, Exot. Sehmett. p. 275 (1892). 



Wings broad. Primaries with base curved, apex pointed and acute, costa arched 

 more strongly at base ; posterior margin almost straight or very slightly convex in the 

 male, in the female slightly excavated just below the apex, then decidedly convex ; 

 inner margin produced, slightly excavated in the centre. Costal nervure of moderate 

 length, ending just beyond the apex of the cell; first and second subcostal nervules 

 with their bases close together ; third subcostal nervule rising nearer to the base of the 

 wing than to the origin of the upper discoidal; in the female this ends at the apex of 

 the wing, but in the male only a fourth subcostal is present, which is very long, 

 terminating at the apex of the wing, its origin being much nearer the origin of the 

 third subcostal than the apex of the wing ; the end of the subcostal nervure terminates 

 in the posterior margin just below the apex ; the upper discoidal nervure rises from the 

 subcostal long before the apex of the cell, whilst the lower discoidal rises from the 

 upper, well beyond its origin, the base of which is deflexed ; lower discocellular 

 nervule upright, slightly concave, twice as long as the middle discocellular; second 

 median nervure rising some way before the lower end of the cell; submedian nervure 

 straight at the base, then slightly deflexed towards the apex. Secondaries very consider- 

 ably more ample in the female than in the male ; costa and posterior margin strongly 

 curved, the latter excavated before the submedian nervure, which is produced into a 

 short stout tail ; a moderate-sized anal lobe, above which the internal or abdominal 

 margin is somewhat excavated, but is afterwards convex. Costal nervure strongly arched, 

 long, ending at the apex of the wing; first subcostal nervule rising some way before 

 the apex of the cell ; upper discocellular nervule shorter than the lower, straight and 

 outwardly oblique ; lower discocellular slightly concave, the second median nervule rises 

 close to the lower end of the cell, submedian nervure almost stiai^ni : internal nervure 



