THE GENUS " AMBLYOPODIA " AUGTORUM. 27 



(a) H. anita naradoides, Moore. 



Confined to Ceylon. Although I have examined some forty 

 «xamples of this race, I cannot find any definite character on 

 which to separate it from Indian specimens. It is, however, on 

 the average considerably larger and somewhat darker. The 

 typical female has a large blue (or purple) patch on the fore 

 wing, and occasionally a trace of blue about the bases of veins 

 3 and 4 on [the hind wing above ; the ? -f. darana, Moore, has 

 the blue area replaced by a brown of markedly lighter shade 

 than the rest of the wing, and occasionally a little blue scaling 

 •centrally in area 1 a of fore wing above. 



(b) H. anita anita, Hew. 



Amblypodia narada dina, Friihst., op. cit., p. 150. 

 Amblypoclia arracana, Grose-Smith, A.M.N.H. (5), xx, p. 268. 

 Amblypodia narada, Swinhoe, Lep. Ind., viii, p. 136. 



Extends from the Nilgiris to Khandala and across to Bengal, 

 Darjeeling, Assam, Burma and Siam, and possibly to Malacca. 



Hewitson's type is a small, bright purple specimen, with a 

 moderate black border and a red underside; it came from Siam. 

 One example in the British Museum from Darjeeling (Elwes 

 ■Coll.) agrees remarkably well with the description of arracana. 

 Burmese specimens are usually very pale above and below, and 

 have only a very narrow black border on the upperside ; they 

 have an extremely *' dry " appearance. Specimens from Madras 

 and the Nilgiris have markedly pale cilia, the males rather pale 

 above, pale reddish buff below, the females generally very light. 

 From Kanara specimens are usually small, rather dark, the 

 folack border in the male comparatively broad ; the females 

 similar to naradoides, or the blue may be entirely absent or very 

 much reduced. 



Should these slight differences prove to be constant in their 

 respective areas (which hardly seems probable), then dina should 

 be restricted to the race from Madras and the Nilgiris, arracana 

 be applied to the Darjeeling and xissam race, anita to the Siam 

 and Malay Peninsula form, leaving the Kanara and Burmese 

 races to be named. 



(c) H. anita orla, Friihst. 



The Javan race. Friihstorfer bases his description on four 

 females. He confuses anita and narada throughout, and the 

 description might apply to either ; but since he separates it from 

 typical narada (described from Java), the probability is that it 

 refers to anita. A pair in the British Museum are characterised 

 by their very dark and uniform undersides, the diagonal " mid- 



