4 LEPIDOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



Amblypodia Pseudo-Centaurus, Boubleday, Brit. Mus. List. Westw. in Boubl. §■ Hewits. Gen. Diur. Lep. 



p. 478. 

 Amblypodia Nakula, Fetder, Lep. Malayica, Wien. Ent. Monats. Band iv. p. 395, 1860. 



In the Collection of the British Museum from Sylhet, Sumatra, and Ceylon. 

 Variety, f. 1 1 . With one of the branches of the central band on the underside of the posterior wing broken. 



The Banksian Collection, the property of the Linnean Society of London, contains the type of this species, 

 the same to which Fabricius himself refers in his description in the ' Entomologia Systematica : ' this agrees 

 exactly with figures 10 and 13 of the Plate. 



16. Amblypodia Amytis. 



Amblypodia Amytis, Hewitson. Pl. II. 5 f. 7, 8, 9. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant morpho-blue : the outer margins with a narrow border of black. 



Underside rufous-brown. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a broad band of grey : the 

 three spots within the cell bordered with silvery-white : the transverse band unbroken, widest at the costal 

 margin, gradually decreasing in breadth to its lower extremity. The transverse band of the posterior wing 

 without a lateral branch : the anal angle with one large spot of metallic green. 



In the Collection of the British Museum from Australia. 



Female. — Like the male, except that the blue of the upperside is tinted with green 

 near the base, that the apex and outer margins are broadly black, and that the uuderside of the posterior wing 

 is crossed longitudinally near and parallel to the costal margin by a broad band of grey. 



In the Collection of the British Museum from Australia. 



Variety. Female, f. 9. — Above, of a darker blue than the last-described: on the underside 



exactly similar. 



In the Collection of the British Museum from Aru. 



17. Amblypodia Amantes. 



Amblypodia Amantes, Hewitson. Pl. II. d f- 1> 2, 5 f. 3. 



Upperside. Male. — Brilliant morpho-blue : the costal and outer margins with a narrow border of 

 black. 



Underside grey : the spots and bands rufous-brown. Anterior wing with the transverse band 

 broken, the middle spot projecting outwards. The central band of the posterior wing with two branches com- 

 posed of unequal angular spots : the anal angle irrorated with light green. 



Female. — Like the male, except that the blue of the upperside is confined to half the 

 wing, with the margins very broad. 



In the Collection of the British Museum from Ceylon. 



Variety a. Female. — With the blue of the upperside lighter, occupying a still smaller space than 



the last-described. 



In the Collection of A. R. Wallace from Makassar. 



18. Amblypodia Meander. 



Amblypodia Meander. Pl. II. <J f. 4, 5, 6. 



Arhopala Meander, Boisd. Voy. de I' Astrolabe, Ent. pt. l.p. 76. 

 Amblypodia Meander, Westw. in Boubl. §• Hewits. Gen. Diur. Lep. p. 478. 

 In the Collection of the British Museum from Aru. 



Variety a, f. 6. With the underside of the wings glossed with green and lilac. 

 In the Collection of A. R. Wallace from Aru. 



