AMBLYPODIA GROUP OF THE LYCJENID.F. 5 



Amblypodia vivarna Hewitson [nee Horsfield), Cat. Lye. B.M. pi. vii. fig. 70, g (1862). 



Surendra discalis Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1879, p. 142 j id. Lep. Coy. vol. i. p. 1 1~ , 



pi. xliv. figs. IS, la? (1881). 

 Surendra latimargo Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1879, p. 142. 

 Surendra quercetorum vnr. lutitnargu Wood-Mason and de Niceville, J. A. S. B. vol. xlix. pt. 2, p. 235 



(1880). 

 Surendra biplagiata Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 1 17. pi. x\iv. fig. 12, $. 

 Amblypodia quercetorum Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 281, pi. xcvi. (1888). 

 Surendra quercetorum Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 188.2, p. 251 ; Dohcrty, J. A. S. B. vol. Iv. 



pt. 2, p. 130 (1886). 

 Surendra quercetorum de Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. iii. p. 220 (1890). 

 Surendra biplagiata de Niceville, op. cit. p. 221. 

 Surendra discalis and S. latimargo de Niceville, op. cit. p. 222. 



llab. Sylhet; N. India; Kangra Valley; Bagheswar ; Lower Kamganga ; Gori 

 and Kali Valleys ; Kumaun ; Madras ; Ceylon ; Andamans ; Burma ; Assam ; 

 Kashmir. 



Expanse, J 2S-34, 2 36-39 mm. 



6 . Upperside : both wings violet-blue ; primaries with broad black costa, broader 

 posterior margin, and apex black from the termination of the cell; secondaries with 

 the blue extending only in the median area and just into the cell. Tail tipped with 

 white ; lobe very much produced. Underside : both wings greyish brown : primaries 

 with an obscure dark dash in the cell and a narrow elongated spot at the close, two 

 other dark dots on the costa, a dark, very irregular, transverse line midway between 

 the end of the cell and the posterior margin from the costa to the submedian nervure, 

 beyond which is a row of small very dark dots, sometimes very obscure : secondaries 

 with a white dot below the costal nervure near the base, beneath which is an obscure, 

 dark, jagged, interrupted line ; from the apex to the centre of the abdominal margin is 

 an obscure band of dark shading, in which is an irregular whitish-edged fascia from the 

 costa (before the apex) to the abdominal margin ; a submarginal row of dark spots, 

 sometimes formed into a lunulated line ; lobe-spot very dark reddish brown ; anal area 

 sprinkled with greyish scales. 



2 ■ Upperside : both wings entirely dark brown, with a pale dash beyond the cell in 

 the primaries. Tails edged with white. Underside exactly as in the male, but with 

 all the markings sharper. 



On examining very carefully a large series of this species, I find it is quite impossible 

 for me to differentiate biplagiata Butler and latimargo Moore from Moore's original 

 species ; it is so very variable everywhere that it is useless retaining these names. The 

 same remark applies with regard to discalis Moore : this is a mere aberration which is 

 quite inconstant ; in some specimens the ochreous patch is very prominent, in others 

 less so, and I have others from the same locality in which there is no trace of it. 



