AMBLTPODIINM 197 



p. 300. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 631. Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 113, 



pi. 5, figs. 16, 16a (genitalia). 

 Arrhopala diardi, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 466. 

 Amhlypodia capeta, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 22, pi. 8, figs. 70, 71 (1878). 

 Amblypodia viardi, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 130. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside very dark purple-blue, costal and outer marginal line very 

 finely black. Cilia black, a rather broad pointed tail of moderate length at the end of 

 vein 2, black, tipped with white, and short black projections at the ends of veins 1 

 and 3. Underside with the ground colour pale chocolate-grey, bands and spots dark 

 chocolate-brown. Forewing with the outer middle portion suffused Avith darker 

 chocolate-greyish-1)rown, somewhat darker than the ground colour, the basal third from 

 the costa to vein 1 dark chocolate-brown, its outer edge outwardly oblique and 

 rounded at its lower end, a broad band outwardly oblique and slightly curved from 

 the costa, where it is broadly connected with the basal patch, down to vein 2, the 

 colour running in to the base of interspace 2 touching the basal patch, this band has a 

 slight projection outwards in interspace 3 touching the discal band which rather closely 

 follows, and extends from the costa also to vein 2, and is somewhat elbowed in 

 interspace 4, these bands are edged with white, and the spaces between them are 

 somewhat whitish, and there are several pale brown diffused streaks in the interspaces 

 from the outer third to the outer margin, and there is some trace of a whitish suffusion 

 near the apex of the wing. Hindicing with a basal, dark chocolate-brown patch, its 

 upper end deeply excavated, its lower inner end rounded ; inside the excavation is some 

 whitish suffusion, and above the blunt lower end of the patch there are two elongated 

 spots touching each other on the costa, and then separating in a a shape with their 

 ends rounded ; an inner discal somewhat narrow band from the costa near the apex, 

 inwardly oblique to vein 6, then straight down across the end of the cell when it 

 becomes dislocated, there being a conical spot filling the base of interspace 2, and from 

 its inner end a bar-shaped spot in the next lower interspace ; also an outer discal 

 narrow band from the costa in a straight line hindwards to vein 2, then straight 

 inwards, broadly to the abdominal margin beyond its middle, with some little white 

 suffusion at the bend, below the broad band there is another somewhat similar but 

 narrower band parallel to it, crossing the anal area of the wing, the space between it 

 and the margin being sparsely covered with minute black and bluish-white scales, a 

 sub- terminal black spot in interspace 2 and a larger round black spot at the anal ano-le 

 with an anteciliary line from the anal angle to the end of vein 2 ; all the bands and 

 spots edged with white. Cilia black, tipped with white. Antennae black ; palpi, head 

 and body blackish, abdomen below greyish. 



Female. Upperside violaceous blue. Forewing with costal and outer maro-inal 

 broad blackish bands, broadest at the apex, narrowing on the costa towards the base, 



