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58. AMBLYPODIA CAMDEO, Doubleday {Plate \ajig. 6). 



Ambly podia Camdeo, Douhleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. 

 pt. II. p. 24 (1847). 



a. h. $ ^ . N. India. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 

 c. d. $ . Silhet. Presented by Colonel Buckley. 

 e.f. $ ?. Darjeeling. From Messrs. Schlagintweit^s 

 Collection. 



Amllypodia Camdeo. — Male, uppeb-side pale violet-blue, witb a 

 wbitisli tint in the centre, and a dark mark at the end of the dis- 

 coidal cell of the fore-wing ; extreme edge of anterior margin of 

 fore-wing, eilite, tail, and a short tuft at anal angle, dark brown. 

 Undee-side buff-brown ; fore-ioing having near the base of discoidal 

 cell a small blackish spot, then a longer square one, and parallelly 

 beyond this another squarish undulated spot ; then a series of seven 

 oval and lunate spots across the wing, one between each veinlet, also 

 some irregular-shaped spots disposed at the posterior side of the me- 

 dian vein, all these being encircled by a narrow white band ; near and 

 parallel with the exterior margin are two series of pale white marks, 

 the space between these being of a darkish brown. Hind-wing with 

 five black spots near the base (these spots on both wings forming a 

 circle) ; beyond these are three, then two, and afterwards a series of 

 somewhat smaller spots, this series ending upwards to abdominal 

 margin in a long narrow mark, all being encircled as those in fore- 

 wing ; near and parallel with the exterior margin are markings as in 

 fore-wing ; near anal angle are disposed some patches of black and 

 metallic blue. 



Female, upper- side bright cyaneous, with a broad anterior and 

 exterior margin to both wings ; anal angle with two or three 

 cyaneous lunar- shaped marks ; abdominal margin in both sexes of 

 a creamy colour ; body dark brown. Undeb-side as in the male. 

 Expanse of wings 2f in. 



59. AMBLYPODIA EUMOLPHUS, Cramer Sp. 



(J Papilio Eumolphus, Cramer, Pap. Uxot. III. t. 299, 

 / G.IL (17S2). 

 $ ? Amblypodia Eumolphus, Sbr5/?e/J, Cat. Lep.Mtis. E.I.C. 

 p. 103. Douhleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. II. 

 p>. 24. Westwood, in Douhleday and Ilewitson's 

 Diurnal Lep. p. 478, No. 8. 



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