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length of the costa of forewing, apparently no club, the antennae thickening very 

 slightly towards the tips, legs short. 



Genitalia. — The tegumen consists of a very ample and substantial hood, to the 

 lower part of which are affixed, by a strong muscular attachment, the hooks, which are 

 very robust and straightish, with a slight deflection at their tips. The clasps are 

 usually fully developed, and are excised in the middle, so as to form the extremities 

 into two strong points. The penis is short and the hinder two-thirds very large. 



Type, ameria, Hewitson. 



MAHATHALA AMERIA. 

 Plate 671, figs. 3, <J , 3a, ? , 3b, ^ . 



Amhlypodia ameria, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 14, pi. 8, figs. 8.5, 86, 9 (1862). 



Mahathalia ameria, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 703. Rothney, Ent. Mo. Mag. xix. p. 35 (1882). 

 de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 49. Doherty, id. 1889, p. 422. de Nioeville, 

 Butt, of India, iii. p. 283, pi. 27, fig. 200, ? (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 634. 

 Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 22, pi. 4, figs. 4, 4a (genitalia). 



Naraihura ameria. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 268, pi. 21, fig. 30, 9 (1885). 



Arhopala (Mahathala) ameria, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 470. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark dull purple. Forewing with the costal and outer 

 marginal bands narrowly black, but not prominently so, broader on the outer margin than 

 on the costa, broadest at the apex. Ilindwing with a broader, inconspicuous, black band, 

 from the base along the costa, where it is broadest, and round the outer margin (uniformly) 

 to the anal angle, tail at the end of vein 2, black, rather long, broad and spatulate, 

 scalloped on each side, so as to form a short tooth-like projection. Underside. 

 Forewing with the upper half suffused with rufous-brown, the apex smeared with 

 whitish, the lower half of the wing pale greyish-brown ; a broad bar across the middle 

 of the cell and another across the end, formed by their white edgings, an irregularly 

 angled spot edged with white below the end of the cell, a broad discal band of conjoined 

 spots from the costa to vein 2, edged with whitish, commencing from the costa in au 

 outward curve, then nearly straight down, indications of a sub-marginal series of 

 indistinct brown lunular marks. Hindwing with the entire surface, except the middle 

 and upper marks, smeared with whitish scales, the basal area irregularly spotted with 

 brown, a very irregular narrow brown, outwardly curved band ending in a large brown 

 spot below the costa near the apex, joined to a smaller brown spot on each side of it, a 

 discal band mostly smeared with whitish, with an outward, even curve, edged on both 

 sides by a brown angulated line, broad at the abdominal margin, gradually narrowing 

 upwards, a sub-terminal row of indistinct, small brown spots, capped with darker 

 brown lunules, all these markings often indistinct. Cilia of both wings black. 



