LYCMSIDM. 227 



It is difficult to fix with certainty the distinctive characters 

 of many of the tailed Genera of Lyccenidce, such as Amhhj- 

 podia, Dipsas, Myrina, ylphnceus, Anthene, See, as no two 

 authors agree on the subject. The whole group is in great 

 want of that revision upon which Mr. Hewitson is now 

 engaged. Of the four South African species I have referred 

 to Amblypodia, the nearest to lolaus is A. Natalensis, which 

 is readily recognised by the gilded stripes of the under- 

 surface. A. Erylus has two tails on each hind-wing, while 

 A. Hirundo has only one long tail at anal angle. Leroma, 

 Wallgr., I very doubtfully include in this Genus ; but its 

 describer seems to think it belongs to the Genus Arhopala 

 of Blanchard and Boisduval, which Horsfield and Westwood 

 agree in considering identical with Amblypodia. 



131. Amblypodia Natalensis. 



Aphnaeus Natalensis, E. Douhl., List Lep. B. Mus., II, 



[p. 26. 

 Amblypodia „ Doubl., TFestw., Heivits., Gen. Z>, 



[Lep., pi. 75, f. 4. 

 Spindasis Massilicatzi, Wallengr., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 45, 



tn. 1. 

 Amblypodia Natalensis, Hpfr., in Peters' Reise nach 



[Moss.,— Lis., p. 399. 

 Exp. 1 in. 1 lin. — 1 in. 6 lin. 



$ . Dull violaceous-blue, with broad brownish-black borders. 

 Fore-tuing : blue forms a semicircle on inner-margin from 

 base to beyond middle, sometimes extending upwards into 

 cell ; just beyond end of cell, an orange spot, sometimes very 

 indistinct ; in some specimens a faint trace of a second orange 

 spot a little beyond the other. Hind-wing : blue leaves a 

 tolerably broad costal, hind-marginal, and inner-marginal 

 dark border ; hind-marginal border containing a bluish Ivmular 

 line near anal angular projection, which is orange-yellow, 

 marked with two silvery-dotted black spots : tails black, 

 orange at base and white at tip. Under-side. — Pale whitish- 

 yellow : with gold-lined, purple-bordered, black-edged trans- 

 verse fascicB : common to both wings, a fascia from costa 

 before middle (confluent on median nervure with a black 

 basal patch), extends across hind-wing to before anal angle, 

 whence it is angulated to about middle of inner-margin, — a 

 fascia from costa about middle (becoming dull and gradually 

 obsolete below second median) to first median of hind-wing 

 beyond middle, — two submarginal purplish strix* (of which 



