AMBL TPODIIN^. 1 5 3 



Amhlypodia anarte, Hewitson (ex errore), 111. Diurn. Lep. Lye. p. 4, pi. 1, figs. 6, 7, J (1863). 



Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 353. 

 Amhlypodia yendava, Grose-Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 297 ; id. Rhop. Exot. Lye. pi. 14, 



figs. 8, 9, ^,10, 9 (1898). 

 Arliopala yendava, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 239 (1890). Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 



1903, p. 125. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark violet-blue, varying somewhat in tone of colour ; 

 both wings with black costal and outer marginal line ; anal lobe with a black spot, tail 

 with white tip. Cilia black. Underside brown, also varying much in tone of colour, 

 the type specimen is rather pale brown, but some examples are very dark brown, spots 

 and markings darker than the ground colour, with pale edges. Forewing with a sub- 

 basal round spot in the cell, sometimes with a pale centre ; a larger somewhat oval one 

 in the middle and a sub-quadrate spot at the end ; the latter has sometimes a small 

 blackish spot attached to its inner upper end ; a discal series of six spots divided by the 

 veins from the costa to vein 2, the first four almost in a line, oblique outwards, the first 

 is smaller than the others, the second is a little outside, the two last are slightly out- 

 wardly obliquely placed, but are placed a little on the inner side of the fourth ; immedi- 

 ately following the first four spots are indications of four others (in fresh specimens) 

 parallel with them ; a sub-marginal row of rather square spots, marginal line brown, 

 with a fine inner pale line and indications of a row of spots close to the line ; the inner 

 marginal space of the wing pale. Hindwing with four sub-basal spots, the fourth 

 well inwards, near the abdominal margin, followed by three larger spots in a line, the 

 third the largest and sub-quadrate, with a cleft in it ; a curved bar at the end of the cell, 

 an outwardly curved discal series of eight spots, the first two separated from each other 

 and well separated from the third, which is a little outwards, and touches the fifth, the 

 sixth is a little inwards, attached to the seventh which is immediately below it, the seventh 

 is angular, touches the lower inner end of the sixth, and the eighth runs upwards near 

 the abdominal margin, a sub-marginal series of somewhat lunular thick spots, a marginal 

 brown line with a pale inner line, and brown lunular marks close to the margin, anal 

 spot black, a smaller sub-terminal black spot in the second interspace, and sometimes 

 two more small spots in the first interspace (but not in the type specimen) all capped 

 with metallic blue scales. 



Female. Upperside violaceous-blue, with the outer margins broadly blackish-brown. 

 Underside generally paler than the male, markings similar. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 2yo to 2j*o- inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Philippines. 



Distribution. — The type (which is now a little faded) came from Malacca, 

 Hewitson records it from Sumatra, Doherty from Mergui, de Niceville from Perak and 

 Upper Tenasserim, we have it from Nias, and from Ataran in Burma, and it is in the 

 B. M. also from the Meplay Valley. 



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