130 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



ments provided with transverse series of low tubercules ; besides 



which the last segment, with the preceding, form a separately 



curved, transverse sub-spatulate pad for the cremastral hooks " 



(Scudde)'). 



A similar strange resemblance to a monkey's face has also 



been pointed out by Dr. Holland in the case of the pupa of an 



African Lycaenid. 



GENUS AMBLYPODIA. 



Amblypodia, HorsTield, Cat. Lepid. Mus. E. Ind. Co. p. 98 

 (1829); Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 477 (1852); 

 Schatz & Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 274 (1892). 

 This genus and its allies (among which the most important 

 is Arhopala, Boisduval), include a great number of handsome 

 species found throughout the Indo-Malayan and Austro- 

 Malayan Regions, from India to New Guinea. They are of 

 considerable size, usually expanding from an inch and a half 

 to considerably over two inches, and are generally of some 

 shade of blue above, most frequently inclining to deep purple 

 or violet, with black borders, broadest in the females, and the 

 hind-wings have usually a strong short tail before the anal angle. 

 The under surface is of a darker or lighter brown, with light 

 bands enclosing darker spaces, often more or less chain-like, 

 and usually forming distinctly ocellated spots towards the base, 

 and in the cell of the fore-wings. On the under side of the 

 hind-wings there are usually some greenish or bluish mark- 

 ings about the base of the tail. The type is Amblypodia 

 apidanus (Cramer), a violet-blue species found in Java, with 

 the base of the costa marked with red. It is useless to give 

 a detailed description of a single species of a group containing 

 so many closely-allied forms. 



GENUS OCiYRIS. 

 Ogyris, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 472 (1852); Schatz 

 & Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 275 (1892). 



