RHOPALOCERA MALAY AN A. 275 



I have not seeu the female of this l)oautiful species, and its discovery is iu a hii^nc part 

 due to the eucouragement given to Herr Kiinstler hy Dr. Aiulcrsou, of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. 



5. Panchala trogon. 



Piinchala trofjon, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xiv. p. 201 (1884). 



Male. Wings above bright metallic emerakl-greuu ; nervures and ner- 

 vules, extreme margins of the anterior wings, costal area, abdominal area, 

 and posterior margin — narrowing from apex to upper median nervule and 

 then broadly to anal angle — of posterior wings dark chocolate-brown ; fringe 

 and short tail-like appendage of the same colour, the latter with its apex 

 greyish. Wings beneath purplish-brown, the lower half of anterior wings 



almost without the purplish reflections: anterior wings crossed by the Fki. s?.— Pioic/iaia /rafloii ^. 

 following greyish lines : — two looped and macular crossing cell, two disco- 

 cellular at end of cell (the innermost continued to third median nervule), two discal, waved and fractured, 

 commencing near costa and terminating at third median nervule, and two submarginal, which are narrow 

 and somewhat obsolete ; from base of third median nervule to inner margin is a narrow greyish line, from 

 which to outer angle the colour is greyish and before which is a small greyish spot : posterior wings 

 darker purplish, the basal area beneath the median nervure clothed with long brownish hairs and with the 

 following greyish lines : — four macular, arranged in transverse basal series, followed by three macular, 

 situate one above and one within cell, and one irregular in shape beneath cell ; these are followed by about 

 four, much waved and fractured, crossing disk of wing, and a waved marginal line from apex to second 

 median nervule, where there are three blackish spots, much covered with metallic greenish scales and 

 outwardly bordered with greyish, extending to anal angle. Body above brownish ; body beneath and legs 

 somewhat paler. 



Exp. wings, (? , 36 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Perak (Kiinstler — Calcutta Mus.). 



This species is allied to both the X. /anniliari, Dist., and the 1'. anrea, Hewits. (a Boruean 

 species), by the metallic emerald-green colour above ; it is, however, very distinct from both, 

 not only by tlie different markings beneath, but also by the much smaller brownish markings 

 on the upper surface of the wings. 



Genus AMBLYPODIA. 



AmhhjpuiUa, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I. C. p. 98 (1828); Moore, Lap. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 113 (1881). 



Wings broad ; anterior wings with the costal margin arched at base and convexly oblique to apex ; 

 outer margin moderately convex ; inner margin slightly concavel}' sinuate. Costal nervure terminating on 

 costa a little beyond end of cell ; subcostal nervules five in male and four in female ; fii'st subcostal 

 nervule emitted at about middle of cell, second rather nearer first than third, which is about midway 

 between second and end of cell, third and fourth bifurcating near middle of third, fourth and fifth {in 

 male) bifurcating about midway between base of fourth and apex of wing; cell broad; first and second 

 median nervules emitted a little nearer together than second and third. Posterior wings subovate ; costal 

 margin obliquely convex ; outer margin broadly rounded, elongated near anal angle, with a short tail-like 

 appendage at apes of submedian nervure, the anal angle somewhat broadly lobate. Costal nervure convex 

 and extending to apex ; subcostal nervules bifurcating at about one-third before end of cell, which is 

 broad ; first and second median nervules emitted close together near end of cell, third emitted a little 



