208 LYCAINIDA. AMBLYPODIA. 
purple on the upperside, save a few species of the genus A7hofala, which are brilliant metallic 
green in the males. Arhofada is the largest genus in the family, and it would be of the greatest 
service to systematists if it could be satisfactorily split up. This has been attempted by Messrs. 
Mooreand Doherty, with, I think, but indifferent success ; at any rate 1am not prepared to accept 
the genera which have been proposed, as the characters on which they are based may not be con- 
stant and are not easily recognisable. The genus 4rkepala in its unrestricted sense includes 
species with a moderate-sized tail at the termination of the first median nervule to the hindwing, 
with a very short tailon either side of it, these small tails are sometimes absent leaving one 
moderate-sized tail only, sometimes again this last is also wanting, and the hindwing is quite 
entire. Some species have an anal lobe, others lack it entirely. The genus occurs in the Indo- 
Malayan region, and in China, Japan, and Australia. The next genus, dcesiza, Moore, contains 
but two species, occurring in N.-E. India and Burma respectively. They have a well-formed 
tail to the hindwing, and may be recognised by their rather peculiar style of markings on the un- 
derside. The genus A/ahathala, Moore, contains but a single species, which occurs in N-E, India, 
thence southwards through Burma to the Malay Peninsula and Siam, reappearing in the Island of 
Hainan. Like the genus Afforara, it has the apex of the hindwing strongly produced hook-like, 
and has a single spatulate tail from the termination of the first median nervule. The markings 
of the underside of AZ. ameria, Hewitson. are very different from those of Apforasa atkinsont, 
Hewitson, however, and entirely lack the scattered green metallic scales found in that species. 
The last genus of the Amdlyfodia group, the Ceretis of Hiibner, probably has nothing 
whatever to do with the group ; it is quite aberrant and stands alone, and I do not know where 
better to place it. In neuration it is aberrant, the subcostal nervure of the forewing terminating 
below the apex on the outer margin in both sexes. The arrangement of the median nervules of 
the forewing reminds one much of that obtaining in the 47opfalas. The males of all the species 
are rich orange-red on the upperside with varying widths of black margin ; the females have this 
red colour replaced by ochreous or by white. The hindwing is not tailed ; but both wings vary 
much in outline, being in some species quite entire, in others highly angulated. The metamor- 
phoses of the genus are most interesting, the larva and pupa being highly abnormal. It is strictly 
confined to the Indo-Malayan region and to China and Japan. 
Genus 125.—AMBLYPODIA, Horsfield. (PLATE XXVII). 
Amblypodia, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C,, p. 98 (1829) ; id., Moore, Lep, Cey., vol. i, p, 113 (1881); id., 
Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 275 (1885). 
‘*Winas, broad. FOREWING, arched at the base, afex pointed, exterior margin almost 
erect, slightly convex, Aosterior margin slightly waved ; costal nervure extending to more than 
half the length of the margin ; fst subcostal nervule emitted at half, second subcostal at 
nearly half, and ¢hird subcostal at one-sixth before the end of the discoidal cell, third subcostal 
trifurcate inthe male, bifurcate in the female, /our/h subcostal thrown off at two-thirds, 
and fifth subcostal at one-half from the fourth and terminating below the apex, sixth sub- 
costal (or upper radial) from the end of the cell ; upper [dale] disco-cellular nervule short, bent 
very obliquely outwards, /ower disco-cellular waved ; ower radial nervule from their angle 
near the subcostal nervure; discoidel cell broad; second median nervule emitted at one-fifth, 
first median at two-fifths before the end of the cell; sudmedian nervure slightly waved. 
HINDWING, broadly oval, costa much arched at the base, afex and exterior margin very con- 
vex, concave hindwards and produced into a short tail, anal lobe broad ; costal nervure 
arched at the base and curving tothe apex ; first subcostal nervule at nearly one-half before the 
end of the cell; diésco-cel/udar nervule slightly concave, oblique ; 7adia/ nervule from the mid- 
dle ; discoidal cell broad ; second median nervule from close to the end of the cell, frst me- 
dian at nearly one-half before the end; sudmedian nervure slightly curved ; internal nervure 
recurved. Bopy robust, ¢hovax stout ; falpi porrect, adpressed, second joint squamose, extending 
one-third beyond the head, third joint short, pointed ; /egs short, thickish ; anéenne gradually 
thickening to the tip.. Type,4. warada,” Horsfield. (Afoore, |, ¢.) mae: 
