138 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 628. H. H. Druce, id. 189.5, p. .587. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zoul. 

 Soc. 1903, p. 18. de Rhe-Philipe, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1908, p. 886. 



Amblypodia anita, Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 532. 



Amhlypodia naradoides, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 141 ; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 114, pi. 43, 

 figs. 1, la, 9 (1881). de NiceviUe, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 188.5, p. 49. Hampson, id. 1888, 

 p. 360. de Niceville, I.e. p. 212. Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 180. 



Amhlypodia darana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 141 ; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 114, pi. 43, fig. 2, 9 

 (1881). de Niceville, I.e. 



Amhlypodia narada, var. erichsonii, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1S80, 

 p. 234, and 1881, p. 250. 



Amhlypodia arracana, Grose-Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 268. de Niceville, I.e. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violet-purple with very little gloss, the colour 

 obscuring the marginal black borders. Forewing, costa and outer margin with a 

 moderately broad blackish band, generally broadest on the latter. Hindwing with the 

 costal band broad, the outer marginal band narrow, in most specimens a mere line ; 

 anal lobe marked with dull red. Cilia black, tail stout, with a black cilia. Underside 

 rufous-brown. Forewing with a black line from the costa near the apex to the hinder 

 margin beyond the middle, followed by a post-discal series of indistinct disconnected 

 luuular black marks, not always visible, and sometimes indications of a sub-marginal 

 series. Hindwing with a medial outwardly curved black line and an indistinct out- 

 wardly curved discal series of black dots marked with white points, both in continuation 

 of the two lines of the forewing, and a series of sub-marginal similar black dots, the 

 ground colour of the wing varying in tone in different examples. 



Female. Upperside very dull violet, sometimes almost violet-brown. Forewing 

 with broad costal and outer marginal blackish-browm borders. Hindwing generally 

 uniform dull violet-brown, without any borders, anal lobe as in the male. Underside 

 varying in shade of colour from ochreous-grey to violet-brown, markings as in the male, 

 but some of the darker-coloured examples have a band of suffused whitish marks in 

 connection with the discal line. Antennae black, with an orange tip ; head and body 

 above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 2 to 2^ inches. 



Habitat. — India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam. 



Distribution. — The type came from Siam, Moore's types of naradoides and 

 darana from Ceylon, Grose- Smith's type from the Arracan Hills ; Elwes records it from 

 Bernardmyo, Watson from Chin Lushai, Betham from the Central Provinces, Hampson 

 from the NUgiris, de Rhe-Philipe from Khandala, near Bombay, de Niceville from 

 Sikkim and Madras, we have it also from Karwar, Panchi, Maulmein, Trincomali and 

 Kandy ; in one male example from Kandy on the underside of the fore-^ing the first 

 transverse line is double, and there is a similar but shorter sub-basal duplex line. 



