LYCANID. IRAOTA. 213 
speckled markings black, the marginal series white-speckled. FEMALE, UPppErsIDE, doth 
wings pale violet-brown. UNDERSIDE, doth wings similar to the male.” (Aoore, 1. c.in 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.) 
Occurs in Ceylon in the ‘* Kottawah Forest, near Galle. Rare ” (Wade). 
In Mr. Moore’s plate of this species and of 4. aradoides in his “ Lep. Cey.” the numbering 
of the figures appears to have been reversed, nos, I, Ia referring to A. naradoides, and no. 2 to 
A, darana. 
I possess a considerable series of male Amélyfodias from Ceylon, but do not find the 
differences in them that Mr. Moore defines between maradoides and darana, I have only seen 
one female from Ceylon, which is of the darana form, Colonel Swinhoe possesses a female 
from Madras, and I one from the Nilgiris, which are also darana. I believe 4. darana to 
bea dimorphic female form only of the widely-distributed 4, anita, Hewitson ; which form 
may possibly be confined to South India and Ceylon. 
774. Amblypodia arrasana, Grose Smith. 
Amblypodia arracana, Grose Smith, Ann, and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xx, p. 268 (1887). 
Habitat: Arracan Hills. 
EXPANSE : 2°0 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “ UPPERSIDE, 0th wings purple, exterior margins broadly dark brown. 
Hindwing with a large reddish-brown lobe at the anal angle. UNDERSIDE, doth wings 
rufous, crossed from near the apex of the forewing to the middle of the inner margin of the 
hindwing by a brown-black line, between which and the base the space is more or less 
densely irrorated with the same colour. Half-way between the line and the outer margins 
is a brown-black band of minute maculz, and another on the lower part of the outer margin 
of the hindwing.” 
‘“‘ Near to 4, anata [ ? A. anita, Hewitson, from Siam], but a larger and brighter insect.” 
(Grose Smith, 1. c.) 
There is absolutely nothing in the above description to enable any one to identify the 
species ; and not even the sex of the specimen described is stated. 
Genus 126.—IRAOTA, Moore. (PLATE XXVII). 
Iraota, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. ror (1881) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 258 (1885). 
FOREWING, triangular ; ex/erior margin slightly oblique and convex below the apex ; 
discoidal cell somewhat fusiform, extending to more than half the wing ; cos¢a/ nervure curved, 
first subcostal nervule emitted at more than half before the end of the cell ; second subcostal at 
one-third, and ¢ird subcostal at one-fifth before the end of the cell, third subcostal trifid [in the 
male only], fourth subcostal at more than one-half from below the third, 4/4 subcostal at one- 
half from below the fourth and terminating below the apex ; dsco-cellular nervules bent in- 
wards close to the subcostal nervure ; upper radial nervule from the subcostal end of the 
cell, Jower radial from the angle close to the subcostal nervure ; second median nervule 
at one-fifth, #7s¢ median at one-third before the end of the cell ; submedian nervure 
nearly straight. MALE with a tuft of hair on the underside of the posterior margin, 
HINDWING, short, produced and lobed at the anal angle; a slender /az/ from the end of 
the submedian nervure in the male, and a second tail from the end of the first median 
nervule in the female ; exterior margin slightly sinuous ; costal nervure much arched at the 
base ; first subcostal nervule at nearly one-half before the end of the cell ; dtsco-cellular 
nervules concave, acutely angled in the middle; vadia/ nervule from their angle ; ¢hird 
median nervule from close to the end of the cell, fvs¢ median at nearly one-half before 
the end; submedian nervure straight ; internal nervure recurved. MALE with a slightly 
indicated glandular space between the bases of the costal and subcostal nervures. Bopy 
robust. ads porrect, second joint squamose, projecting slightly beyond the head, third 
joint slender, JZegs squamose, femora slightly pilose beneath, Antenne gradually thick, 
ened to tip.” (4/o0re, 1 c.) 
