AMBLYPODIA GROUP OP THE LYCMNIDM. 95 



Aehopala agesias (Hewitson). (Plate III. fig. 27 ; Plate V. figs. 9 & 9 a.) 

 Amblypodia agesias Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B.M. p. 2. n. 49, pi. vi. figs. 55 & 56 (1862). 

 Amblypodia ovomaculata id. 111. Diurn. Lep., Suppl. p. 22. no. 103, pi. suppl. viii. figs. 66 & 67 



(1878). 

 Arhopala agesias de Niceville, Butt. Ind. vol. iii. p. 273 ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1895, p. 592. 

 Arrhopala agesias de Niceville and Martin, J. A. S. B. vol. lxiv. pt. 2, p. 469 (1895). 



Hab. Borneo ; Malacca ; Sumatra ; Pulo Laut. 



Expanse, d & $ , 39-43 mm. 



This species is subject to considerable variation as to the size and colour of the spots 

 beneath ; in Hewitson's type these are small and dull, whilst in others they are very 

 large and very dark, and the metallic scaling is often much extended towards the costa 

 and differs in colour. I have a specimen from Kina Balu before me in which the 

 colour is brilliant golden bronze, others are bright blue or green ; the blue is also 

 subject to variation, some being quite violet, others much bluer, whilst in the Kina Balu 

 specimen the blue is brilliant azure. Hewitson describes a female in which the trans- 

 verse band is absent ; this has been named similis by Druce and anila by de Niceville. 



The male of this species appears to have been mistaken for the female, as both sexes 

 are precisely the same. I have mounted the clasping-organs of one male, and have 

 before me other specimens which I believe to be of the same sex. As I have specimens 

 from Sumatra, Borneo, and Pulo Laut (a small island off New Guinea), it is not 

 improbable that it may be more widely distributed over these islands than is yet 

 recorded. 



The genitalia are peculiar ; the tegumen small with extremely broad clasps, the clasps 

 are long, with a waved outline, and the penis is bent a quarter from the orifice (see 

 figs. 9 & 9 a, Plate V.). 



A. ovomaculata I cannot regard as anything but a very handsome, darkly and very 

 largely marked form of this species ; the pattern is exactly the same, there being no 

 difference whatever above or below, except that all the spots are very greatly exaggerated 

 in the secondaries, as also is the metallic anal scaling. I have figured this form on 

 Plate III. fig. 27. 



Arhopala hesba (Hewitson). (Plate III. fig. 28, <s .) 

 Amblypodia hesba Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. p. 142, pi. iii b. fig. 47 (1865) 



Hal. Philippine Islands. 



Expanse, 6 & ? , 39-40 mm. 



A very distinct and easily recognisable species ; the brilliant morpho-blue of the 

 upperside and the decided set pattern and warm chestnut-brown of the underside °ive 

 it quite a marked individuality of its own. It has hitherto been recorded from the 

 Philippine Islands only. 



