210 LYC/AENID:, AMBLYPODIA. 
species which is entirely brown on the upperside, the 4. davana of Moore; the third group, 
the female of which has not hitherto been described, contains A. anifa,and is purple. As the 
typical male specimen of A. andersonii is the only properly authenticated example I have seen, 
and the descriptions of nearly all the species are so obviously insufficient, I propose to keep all the 
species that have been described distinct, adding a few notes of my own to each. At the same 
time, I must record my opinion that there are probably only two distinct species in the 
Indian region, 4. xavada and A. anita, and that even they would be better described as local 
races than distinct species,as they have been distinguished merely by a slight difference in 
colour, The undersides of all the species are probably very variable, in over fifty specimens 
before me as I am writing, no two are exactly alike. They bear almost as strong a protective 
resemblance to dead leaves as dothe species of the genus Aallima, Westwood, of the sub- 
family Mymphaline, and are furnished, as in those butterflies, with a dark line across the 
middle of the wings to represent the mid-rib of a leaf, the rest of the surface being very 
variously mottled and spotted. The head-quarters of the genus appear to be in the 
dry country of Chota Nagpur and the surrounding regions; where the rainfall is heavy, 
they are much scarcer. They occur almost throughout peninsular and continental India 
(except in the desert tracts, the Punjab, and the North-Western Provinces), and they are found 
in Assam, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Java, Luzon, in the Andaman Isles (but not in the 
Nicobar group), and in Ceylon. In the following key I give the recorded locality for each 
species only. 
Key to the Indian species of Amblypodia. 
A. Males, upperside, both wings bliie. 
768. A. NARADA, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java. 
769. A. TAOOANA, Burma. _ 
770. A. ANDERSONII, Burma, 
B. Males, upperside, both wings purple. 
771. A. ANITA, Sikkim, Madras, Siam. 
772. A. NARADOIDEs, Ceylon. 
773» A. DARANA, Ceylon. 
774. A, ARRACANA, Arracan Hills. 
768. Amblypodia narada, Horsfield. 
A, navada, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co., p. 98, n. 30 5 Thecla narada, \.c., pl. i, fig. 8, wale ; pl. iv, figse. 
4, larva; 4a, pupa (1829); id., Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C., vol. i, p. 39, n. 51, pl. i, figs. 4, 
larva ; 4a, pupa (1857) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 276, n. 1, pl. xxi, fig. 23, #zale (1885). 
Hasitat: Mergui (Doherty) ; Penang, Malacca (Distant) ; Java (Horsfeld). 
EXPANSE: 4, 1°6 to 2'0 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “ MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings blackish-brown, with 4 cyaneous patch, 
corresponding in outline with the wings, and covering the whole surface from the base toa 
regularly-defined distance from the anterior and posterior margins, the tint varying in brilliancy 
according to the direction of the light. UNDERSIDE, Joti wings brown; 4 brown band, com- 
mencing at the outer apical angle of the forewing passes obliquely through both wings to the 
anal region of the hindwing, where it forms a gradual curve, and terminates at the middle of 
the inner margin, having the outer edge regularly defined and of a deeper tint, the inner 
gradually evanescent ; the whole surface of the wing, from the band to the base, is speckled 
or irregularly mottled with blackish-brown, and on both wings a very obscure stigma is scarcely 
perceptible; between this band and the posterior margin is a double series of obscure dotted 
lunules facing each other with their concavities, which in the hindwing is more distinct, with 
gradually diverging lunules ; the margins between the nervules, the inner series of lunules, 
the anal appendage at its inner edge, and the tail are clouded with whitish dots. FEMALE. 
UprersIDE, doth wings with the ground-colour paler than in the male, the blue patch has a 
light azure tint with a purple reflexion, is less widely diffused, especially in the hindwing, and 
the borders are proportionally broad. UNDERSIDE, doth wings gray with a glaucous reflexion, 
