AMBLYPODIA GEOUP OP THE LTC^NID^. 55 



Arhopala bazaloides (Hewitson). (Plate I. fig. 17; Plate TV. figs. 15 & 15 a.) 



Amblypodia bazaloides Hewitzon, 111. Diurn. Lep., Lycsenidse, Suppl. p. 21, pi. vii. figs. 62 & 63. 

 Arhopala bazalus de Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. iii. p. 249 (1890). 



Hal. Palawan ; Mindanao ; Zebu ; Assam ; Travancore and Canara. 



Expanse, s 37, $ 40 mm. 



6 ■ Upperside : both wings deep purplish, with broad costal and posterior brown 

 margins. In the secondaries these borders are decidedly broader than in the primaries ; 

 abdominal fold brown. Tail brown, white-tipped, the nervures on each side of which 

 are elongated and form two very short tails. Underside : both wings brown, with the 

 spots margined with whitish. Primaries with three discal spots increasing in size, 

 that closing the cell being open above and below ; beneath it is a short white dash ; 

 the transverse band is just discernible by the interior and exterior interrupted 

 white margins ; the upper three spots shifted outwards, the next two inwards, so that 

 their inner edge touches the white dash just mentioned ; below this is a small dark 

 submarginal row, fairly distinct ; below the second discal spot there is a trace of 

 another in the pale submedian area; apex with a few scattered whitish scales. 

 Secondaries suffused more or less almost all over with whitish scales, with half a spot 

 at the extreme basal edge of the costa, the usual four basal followed by the three larger 

 spots, the upper ones of these two series being confluent ; cell closed by a large spot, 

 beneath which is a small triangular one. Transverse band indefinite, consisting of four 

 pairs of spots: the upper pair being dark and large; second pair small, indistinct, 

 and projected outwards; third small pair shifted inwards, almost confluent with the 

 seventh angular spot, which is also confluent with the eighth long spot, which latter is 

 broken up into two, that touching the angular spot being small and round. There is a 

 distinct submarginal dark waved line ; anal spot black ; a black spot also between the sub- 

 median and lower median nervure, and between the latter and the second median nervule, 

 — these two being covered with bluish-metallic scales, which also edge the anal spot above. 

 2 . Upperside : both wings brighter purplish than in the male, with very broad, dark 

 brown apical and posterior margins, and broad costa in primaries. In the secondaries 

 the purplish is confined to nearly the area of the cell. 



I have before me a male and two females of this Philippine form. There are decided 

 differences between them and licolora ; it is only about three-quarters its size, the white 

 margins of the spots below in the primaries are reduced so much as to become in some 

 cases almost olsolete — the colour is quite different above and below ; whilst in the 

 secondaries the colour is also different, and the chain-band spots decidedly larger, 

 though the insect is smaller. 



In de Niceville's collection are quite typical specimens from the Khasia Hills 

 (Assam), Travancore, Canara ; but he mistook Hewitson's species bazalus (his teesta) 

 for this insect. The genitalia are similar to those of tephlis, but the clasps differ, as 



