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ALLIED CHINESE SPECIES. 

 Amhlypodia hainana, Crowley, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 508. Habitat, Hainan. 



Genus APPORASA. 



Apporasa, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 38. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 224 



(1890). 

 Mahathala, Bethune-Baker (part), Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 20. 



Forewing differs from Thaduka, Moore, in having the exterior margin biangulated 

 and produced outwards below the apex. Ulndwing has the costa longer, arched at the 

 base, and produced to an upward angle at the apex, the interior margin is deeply 

 scalloped ; it has also three shorter tails (the spatulate tail at the end of vein 2 is 

 broken in the type). Palpi long porrect, second joint extending two-thirds beyond the 

 eyes, third joint also long and slender, being half the length of the second. Antennae 

 stouter and blunt at tip. (Moore.) 



Superficially this genus appears to be a close ally of the genus Thaduka, Moore ; 

 the forewing has two blunt rounded dentations below the apex, immediately below 

 which again it is almost entire ; the hindwing is very dentate, nor has it the large anal 

 lobe present in Thaduka ; the outline of the costa of the hindwing of Apparasa is 

 quite different from that of Thaduka ; the general style of markings of Thaduka and 

 Apporasa on both surfaces is the same, (de Niceville.) 



APPORASA ATKINSONI. 



Plate 671, figs. 2, ^,2a, ?,2b, ?. 



Amhlypodia aikinsoni, Hewitson, 111. Dium. Lep. Lye. p. 14 g, pi. 3b, figs. 48, 49 (1869). 

 Apporasa aikinsoni, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 38. Doberty, id. 1889, p. 423. 

 de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 224 (1890). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 47. 

 Mahathala athinsoni, Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 21. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pale lilac-blue. Forewing with very broad black, costal 

 and outer marginal bands, broadest at the apex and hinder angle, veins black, costa 

 with four white spots. Hindwing with the costal space very broadly black, the black 

 band narrowing a little but very gradually to the anal angle, abdominal fold blackish, 

 the blue space very limited, tail at the end of vein 2 of moderate length, spatulate, 

 short productions at the ends of all the other veins. Underside grey, irrorated 

 with brown. Forewing with the space above vein 1 dark chocolate-brown, darkest in 

 the cell and a little below it, three large spots in the cell indicated by their prominent 

 white sides, increasing outwards very little in size, all bar-shaped, right across the cell, 

 some mottled brown costal marks, a white scalloped discal line limiting the dark 



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