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coloured and marked like its male, with tlie lower half of the wing more or less 

 suffused with whitish. 



Expanse of wings, $ l-f^, ^ li\ inches. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



We have many examples of both sexes in our collection ; it cannot be an 

 aberration of quercetorum, as Bethune-Baker suggests, because that form does not 

 occur in Ceylon, and from the uniform smallness of its size and peculiar features it 

 must be considered a good local form, apparently not occurring anywhere out of 

 Ceylon. 



SURENDRA AMISENA. 

 Plate 669, figs. 1, <J , la, ? , lb, ^ , Ic, ? . 



Amhiypodia amisena, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 13, pi. 7, figs. 74, 78, $ (1862). Kheil, Rhop. 



Nias, p. 33 (1884). 

 Jtapala amisena, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 277, pi. 23, fig. 13, ^ (1885). 

 Surendra amisena, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 424. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 222 (1890). Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 6, pi. i. fig. 3, ^, 4 and 5, ?, pi. 4, 



figs. 1, la (genitalia). 

 Amhiypodia jMloiBiia, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 131, pi. 2, fig. 3. 

 Surendra palowna, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 588. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violet-blue. Forewing with the costa and outer 

 margin broadly blackish, broadest at the apex. Hindwing with costa very broadly 

 blackish, the outer margin with a narrow blackish band, the abdominal margin pale. 

 Underside dark rufous-brown, markings darker brown, an outwardly deeply curved 

 series of thin lunules, outwardly edged with dull whitish, a sub-marginal series of spots, 

 also with pale outer edges, hinder marginal space pale. Hindwing with a discal 

 outwardly curved band of conjoined lunular marks, outwardly edged with white, 

 a post-discal series of spots, some of which are more or less lunular, all inwardly 

 pale-edged, a large black sub-terminal spot in each of the first three anal interspaces, 

 more or less covered with blue metallic scaling, which varies much in quantity in 

 different examples, and is sometimes wanting. Cilia brown, with some whitish edging 

 on the underside. 



Female. Upperside much as in the male, but the colour has a tint of lilac-blue 

 and is more or less glossed. Underside as in the male, but the discal series on the 

 forewing is generally more separated from the sub-marginal series than it is in the 

 male. Antennae black ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings, 

 outer margin of the hindwing with very short projections of hairs at the ends of 

 veins 2, 3 and 4, sometimes a filamentous tail varying in length in different specimens 

 at the end of vein 2, sometimes without any tail at all. 



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