2:2 LYCAINID. AMBLYPODIA. 
DESCRIPTION: “ MALF. UPPERSIDE, doth wings purple, the margins rather broadly 
brown. UNDERSIDE, doth wings rufous, the base clouded irregularly with black, crossed near 
the costal margins by two indistinct macular bands of brown. Forewing with the apex marked 
with gray. Hindwing with the anal angle marked with gray.” 
‘*The males of A. marada, Horsfield, and A. anita, Hewitson, have a fourth branch from 
the subcostal nervure ; the females, like the rest of the genus [as understood by Hewitson], are 
without it.” (Aewztsoz, 1. c.) 
In my opinion A. anita should be the name by which the commonest species of 
the genus that occurs nearly all over India, Ceylon, the Andamans, Assam, and some parts of 
Burma should be known, and that, in South India and Ceylon, has a dimorphic form of female 
(A.:darana, Moore). In the Andamans, the females are always more blue than purple on the 
upperside, I possess a single specimen from the Nilgiris and another from the Chittagong Hill 
Tracts, which also exhibit this type of coloration, This species occurs most abundantly in the 
dry district of Beerbhoom, also at Bholahat, Malda, and in the Ranchi district, where Mr. W. H. 
Irvine has obtained many specimens. It occnrs very rarely in Calcutta, but iscommon in 
Orissa. Colonel Swinhoe possesses specimens from Karwar in Bombay, and from Madras; I 
possess specimens from Ganjam and the Nilgiris ; it is common in Ceylon ; Mr. S. E, Peal has 
obtained a female at Sibsagar in Upper Assam ; it is found also in Burma at Shwayghan and 
Thyetmyo. 
The figure shows both sides of a female specimen from the Andaman Isles in my 
collection, 
772. Amblypodia naradoides, Moore. 
A %xaradoides, Moore, Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 141; idem, id., Lep, Cey., vol. i, p. 114, pl. xliii, 
figs, 1, 1a, female (1881). 
HasitaT: Ceylon. ; 
EXPANSE: 6,1°53 9, 1°87 (2'2 Moores figure) inches. 
DescRIPTION: “‘ MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings dark violet purple-brown, with a 
broad dusky-black marginal band ; anal lobe and tail chestnut-brown, the angle white-speckled. 
UNDERSIDE, oth wings dark purple-brown ; transverse band, speckled marks on basal area, 
and a submarginal series of speckled spots black, the latter and the anal angle white-speckled. 
FEMALE, UPPERSIDE, doth wings dark brown. Forewing with the lower basal and discal areas 
smalt-blue. UNDERSIDE, both wings pale brownish-gray, transyerse line and speckled markings 
black ; anal angle ferruginous.” Z 
* A much darker insect than the Javan species A. narada, Horsfield.” (Moore, 1. c. in 
Proc. Soc. Zool. Lond.) 
In Ceylon this species is recorded from the ‘‘ Western Province. Plains, in forest land, 
chiefly during S.-W. monsoon, from May to October. Flight like 4. [=Arhopala ] amantes, 
Hewitson. Generally rests on leaves, sometimes, but rarely, on the ground ” (£/ztchison). 
** Kandy. Rather scarce” (Wade). 
I have nothing to say with regard to this species, except that the male is indistinguishable 
from the common form which occurs throughout India, and the female is said to be smalt- 
blue on the upperside, which is the colour of specimens I possess from the Nilgiri Hills, 
Chittagong Hill Tracts, and Andaman Isles. 
773. Amblypodia darana, Moore. 
A. davana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 1413 idem, id., Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 124, pl. xliii, fig. 
2, female (1881). 
HABITAT : Ceylon. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1°90; 2, 2:12 inches. 
DEscriPTION: “Differs from A. mavadoides, Moore, in being larger, the UPPERSIDE 
of the MALE of a deeper violet-blue, the marginal band narrower; anal lobe red only in 
the middle, its margin and the tail black, UNDERSIDE, doth wings purple chestnut-brown ; 
