136 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



Genitalia. — The tegumen and lateral supports of the prehensores are more fully 

 developed in this genus, whilst the clasps, though smaller, are very unusual in shape ; 

 the extremities are strongly serrated and produced upwards into a long straight 

 extension and attached to the laterals by a fine covering of thin chitine. Penis short 

 and stout. 



Type, narada, Horsfield. 



AMBLYPODIA NARADA. 



Plate 670, figs. 2, $ , 2a., 5 , 2b, ? , 2c (larva and pupa). 



Amhlypodia narada, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 98, pi. i. fig. 8, ^ > pl- ^i figs- 4, 4a, larva and pupa 

 (1829). Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 39 (1857). Distant, Rhop. 

 Malayana, p. 276, pi. 21, fig. 2.3, ^ (188.5). de Nioeville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 210 (1890). 

 H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 189.5, p. 587. de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1895, p. 463. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 16, pi. 4, figs. 3 and 3a (genitalia). 



Tlieda narada, Horsfield, I.e. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purplish-blue. Forewing with a moderate costal and 

 outer marginal black band broadest at the apex, narrowing hindwards a little to the 

 hinder angle. Ilindwing with the costal space paler, a narrow outer marginal some- 

 what macular black band. Underside rufous-brown. Forewing with a darker brown 

 sinuous line from the apex to the pale hinder marginal space, beyond the middle, 

 indications of a sub-marginal series of brown spots. Hindwing w^ith the transverse line 

 of the forewing continued in an outward curve to the middle of the abdominal margin, 

 the whole space in both wings from this line to the base generally darker than the 

 rest of the wing ; a discal series of small black spots inwardly edged with small 

 suffused white marks, followed by a sub-marginal row of similar black spots, anal 

 lobe and tail coucolorous with the wing above and below. Cilia black above, bro'mi 

 beneath. 



Female. Upperside pale azure-blue. Forewing with broad costal and outer 

 marginal blackish-brown bands. Ilindwing with the abdominal fold whitish, the space 

 inside it brownish, as also is the base ; the outer marginal blackish band very narrow, 

 more or less macular in some examples. Underside ochreous-grey, the markings as in 

 the male, but more pronounced, the middle line much darker and thicker, the space 

 outside of it paler than the rest of the wing. Antennae blackish-brown, ferruginous at 

 the tips. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ ly'-o to 2 inches. 



Egg. — Large, coarse, overlaid with white, roughly tubercular, and indented with 

 spaces obscurely hexagonal. It greatly resembles that of most of the Tliedince. 

 (Doherty.) 



Larva. — Of the usual Lycsenid shape, onisciform, with head small, second segment 

 much larger, the segments gradually increasing in width to about the seventh, then 



