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in the median area ; costa and posterior margin very broadly dark brown ; the outer 

 margin of the bine is very strongly scalloped. Secondaries with extreme base dark brown, 

 followed by a very broad band of white, extending along the costa to beyond the 

 subcostal nervure and all down the abdominal fold ; the rest of the wing to the margin 

 is verj dark blackish brown; the cell and about a quarter beyond it and the- submedian 

 area for a like distance are exceedingly pale azure-blue ; tail dark brown, margin 

 strongly scalloped on each side of it, tipped with white, each of the nervure-spaces from 

 the anal angle to the upper median nervure has a broadish submarginal dash of very 

 pale whitish blue, with which colour the fringes of both wings are tipped. Underside: 

 primaries with the cell, the costa, and the posterior margin very broadly dark brown, the 

 rest of the wing forming a large triangular white area. Secondaries, a broad dash of 

 brown at the extreme base, followed by a very broad transverse band of white ; rest of 

 wing to posterior margin dark brown ; from the internal to lower discoidal nervure is 

 an exceedingly broad marginal band of very pale metallic greenish blue interrupted 

 by the nervines, between each of which is a long black spot in the blue. 



? . Upperside : like that of the male, but with no blue whatever, the blue area of 

 the primaries being white; the margins are also broader. There is a trace of a very 

 scanty blue scaling at the base of the primaries. Underside as in the male. 



This is an instance of the very rare ease of mimicry in this group, the species 

 mimicking the genus Danais very beautifully. 



AlMlOPALA AXIOTHEA (llewitson). 

 Amblypodia axiothea Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. p. 7. n. 21, pi. ii. figs. I<> & 11, c? (1865). 

 Amblypodia strophe Grose-Smith, Novit. Zool. vol. iv. p. 366 (1897) : id. Rhop. Exot., Lycienidte, 

 pi. xiv. figs. 6&7 (1898). 



Hah. New Guinea {Hewitson); Kapanu, Dutch S.W. New Guinea (Gr.-Smith). 



Expanse 46 mm. 



This species is like no other of the group ; the broad and peculiar fascia of the 

 underside will separate it immediately from every other species. 



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