AMBLYPOBIINM. 



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Habitat. — Mergui, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines, Malay Peninsula. 



Distribution. — The type came from Java, Distant's type from the ]\Ialay 

 Peninsula, Druce records it from Borneo, Bethune- Baker from Sumatra and the 

 Philippines, and de Niceville from Elphinstoue Island, in the Mergui Archipelago. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 

 Iraota lazarena, Myrina lazarena, Felder, Wien, Ent. Mon. vi. p. 293 (1862). Semper, Schmett. 



Philip. Ins. V. p. 195. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 13, pi. i. fig. 2, ?. Habitat, 



Borneo, Celebes, Philippines. 

 Iraota nila, Distant (nee Kollar), Rhop. Malayana, p. 462, pi. 44, fig. 24, ? (1886). H. H. Druce, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 588, pi. 33, fig. 1, (J. de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 



1895, p. 463. Habitat, Malacca, Borneo, Sumatra, Perak. 



Genus AMBLYPODIA. 



Amhlypodia, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 98 (1829). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 113 (1881). 

 Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 275 (1885). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 208 (1890). 

 Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 15. 



Eyes naked. Foreicing, vein 12 ends on costa, a little beyond end of cell, 11 and 

 10 emitted close together from the sub-costal nervure before the upper end of cell. 

 8 and 9 out of 7 ; 9 from one- third, 8 from two-thirds between end of cell and apex of 

 wing, 7 terminates on outer margin somewhat below the apex (8 absent in the female). 

 6 emitted from before upper end of cell, 5 from a little below it ; 3 from a little 

 distance before lower end, 2 from a little beyond the middle ; lower discocellular 

 upright, slightly concave, upper discocellular obsolete ; cell broadest at its middle ; 

 wings broad, costa arched, apex acute, outer margin slightly 

 convex in the male, strongly convex in the female, with 

 a slight concavity just below the apex, hinder margin long, 

 slightly concave. Hindwing, with vein 7 emitted some 

 little distance before upper end of cell, upper discocellular 

 shorter than the lower, straight, outwardly oblique ; lower 

 slightly concave, nearly upright ; vein 3 from close to lower 

 end of cell, sub-median nervure straight, internal nervure 

 short, highly recurved, wing broader in the male than in 

 the female, the costa and outer margin strongly arched, a 

 short tail at the end of the sub-median nervure, the outer 

 margin anterior to the tail concave, a moderate-sized anal 



lobe, above which the outer margin is excavated somewhat, the abdominal margin 

 convex ; no secondary sexual characters. Antennae short, one-third the length of the 

 costa of forewing. 



Genitalia of Amhlypodia 

 narada. 



