104 ME. G. T. BETHUNE-BAKER : A REVISION OF THE 



Aehopala eumolphus (Cramer). (Plate II. figs. 19, 20, 21, 22 6" <S , 23 & 24 2 ? ; 

 Plate V. figs. 14 & 14 a.) 

 Papilio eumolphus Cramer, Pap. Ex. vol. iv. p. 19, pi. ccxcix. figs. G, H, c? (1780) ; Herbst, Pap. 



pi. ccxcviii. figs. 3 & 4, 3 (1801). 

 Polyommatus eumolphus Godart, Enc. Metli. vol. ix. p. 652. n. 120 (1823). 

 Amblypodia eumolphus Horsfield, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. p. 103. n. 35 (1829) ; Hewitson, Cat. 



Lycamidfe B.M. p. 8. n. 36, pi. viii. fig. 89, $ (1862). 

 Amblypodia bupola Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep., Suppl. p. 21. n. 102, pi. (suppl.) vii. figs. 61 & 65. ? 



(1878). 

 Satadra bupola Moore, Journ. A. S. B. vol. liii. pt. 2, p. 38 (1881); de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B. 



vol. liv. pt. 2, p. 4. u. 302 (1885). 

 Narathura farquhari Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 261. n. 5, pi. xxiii. fig. 3, <$ (1885). 

 Amhlypodia eumolphus Butler (uec Cramer), Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 548. 



n. 2 (1877). 

 Arhopala farquhari Doherty, Journ. A. S. B. vol. lviii. pt. 2, p. 421 (1889). 

 Arhopala helleuore Doherty, Journ. A. S. B. vol. lviii. pt. 2, p. 422. n. 18, pi. xxiii. fig. 7, <^ 



(1889). 

 Amblypodia eumolphus de Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. hi. p. 263. n. 822 (1890). 

 Amblyi'odia farquhari id. op. cit. p. 264. 

 Amblypodia hellenore id. op. cit. p. 265. 

 Narathura maxwelli Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 263. n. 4, pi. xxiii. fig. 10, ? (1885). 



Hob. Bengal coast; Java; Sikkim ; Nepal; Assam; Chittagong Hill-tracts; 

 Burma; Malay Peninsula; Sumatra; S.E. Borneo; Palawan (Philippine Islands); 

 New Guinea (Staudinger's coll.). 

 Expanse, d 41-55, 5 43-51 mm. 



2 . Upperside : both wings deep emerald-green, with a strong brassy lustre in 

 certain lights ; primaries with a narrow brown costa and broad brown outer margin, 

 this latter varies in width, and is sometimes very broad ; secondaries with very broad 

 brown margins all round ; tail brown, tipped with white ; lobe slightly developed. 

 Underside : both wings palish ochreous brown, with darker brown markings encircled 

 with whitish. Primaries with three increasing cell-spots ; above the third is another 

 small one near the costa varying somewhat in size, below it (the third) is a large spot in 

 the lower median angle, subdiscal area dark ; transverse fascia consisting of seven spots 

 from the costa to the submedian nervure, the first three spots outwardly oblique, fourth 

 spot slightly dislocated and shifted yet further out, fifth strongly dislocated inwards, 

 fifth and sixth spots inclined very slightly outwards, the lowest being shifted slightly 

 inwards, and sometimes it is quite small, not nearly touching the submedian nervure ; 

 submarginal and marginal row narrowish in an almost continuous line ; submedian inter- 

 space pale. Secondaries with a small dot at the extreme costal base ; four small basal 

 spots followed by three larger paler spots below each other ; cell closed by a long 

 subquadrate spot, below which is a smaller one connecting it with the lowest of the 



