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decreasing to the anal segment, which is bluntly pointed ; the constrictions between 

 the segments fairly well marked ; a few short bristly hairs on the sides of the body. 



Pupa. — Unusually lengthened and attenuated ; with head rounded, thorax humped 

 in the middle, abdominal segments very slender, the tail sharply pointed. Described 

 from Dr. Horsfield's figures of the type species, (de Niceville.) 



Habitat. — Burma, Andamans, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, Nias, Philippines. 



Distribution. — The types came from Java, Distant records it from the Malay 

 Peninsula, Druce from Borneo, Moore from Taoo, Upper Tenasserim (3,500 feet), de 

 Niceville from Mergui, Bethune-Baker from the Andamans, Philippines, Nias, and we 

 have it also from Thoungyin and Maulmein. 



AMBLYPODIA TAOOANA. 



Plate 670, figs. 3, ^ , 3a, $. 



Amblypodta taooana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 835. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 211 



(1890). 

 Amblypodia andersoni, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 43 ; id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 



p. 44, pi. 4, fig. 4, (J. de Niceville, I.e. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 17. 

 Amblypodia narada, Bethune-Baker (part). I.e. p. 16. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brilliant purple. Forewing with rather broad black 

 band on costa, broadest at the apex, continued down the outer margin, narrowing 

 gradually hindwards. Hindwing with the costal space broadly black, the outer 

 marginal black band narrow, decreasing in width hindwards to a mere black line, 

 abdominal fold blackish, tail black, anal lobe dull red, sometimes with a whitish spot in 

 it. Underside as in ^. anita. 



Female unknown. 



Expanse of wings, ^ 2 to 2^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — The type came from Taoo (3,500 feet) in Tenasserim ; the type of 

 andersoni from Sampi, Sullivan Island, Mergui Archipelago ; it is in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta. Moore's figure of it is good, and compares well with the type of 

 taooana in the B. M. which we have carefully examined ; the brilliant blue colour of the 

 upperside makes it very distinctive. 



AMBLYPODIA ANITA. 



Plate 671, figs. 1, ^, la, ? , lb, $. 



Amblypodia anita, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 14, pi. 8, figs. 90, 91, $ (1862). Butler, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1883, p. 147. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 403. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 

 p. 211, pi. 27, fig. 191 ? (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 47. Elwes, 

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