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cell ; discocellulars oblique, concave, radial from the middle ; two upper median 

 branches from end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian straight, 

 internal vein recurved. Body robust ; palpi slender, second joint long, of equal 

 width throughout, extending half beyond the head; third joint thin, one-third 

 length of second ; legs short, thickish, femora slightly pilose beneath ; antennae with 

 a gradually thickened club. 

 Type, S. Quercetorum. 



STJEENDRA DISCALIS (Plate 44, Fig. 1, \a, ^9). 

 Surendra Discalis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 142. 

 Male. Upperside dark brown, lower basal and discal areas purpHsh violet-blue. 

 Female ochreous-brown, slightly violet-tinted, and with a prominent ochreous discal 

 patch. Underside greyish basally, ochreous-brown externally ; both wings crossed 

 with white-margined dark brown discocellular zigzag band, a sinuous discal line, 

 and a submarginal similar dentated line. 

 Expanse Ittj inch. 



"Matale. Garden hedges. August" (B«fc^*so?2.). 

 " Kandy and Galle. Common" (IFaie). 



" Kandy and North Matale. Difficult to capture, from its habit of keeping 

 within the protection of the thorny Acacias" (Mackwood). 



Genus AMBLYPODIA. 



Amblypodia, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. p. 98 (1828). 

 Wings broad : forewing arched at the base, apex pointed ; exterior margin 

 almost erect, shghtly convex ; posterior margin slightly waved ; costal vein extending 

 to more than half length of the margin; first subcostal branch emitted at half, 

 second at nearly half, and third at one-sixth before end of the cell, third trifurcate 

 in male, bifurcate in female, the fourth thrown off at two-thirds, and fifth at one-half 

 from the fourth and terminating below the apex, sixth (or uppei' radial) from end of 

 the cell ; upper discocellular short, bent very obliquely outward, lower waved, lower 

 radial from their angle near subcostal ; cell broad ; middle median emitted at one-fifth, 

 lower at two-fifths before end of the cell ; submedian slightly waved : hindwing 

 broadly oval ; costa much arched at base, apex and exterior margin very convex, 

 concave hindward and produced into a short tail, anal lobe broad ; costal vein arched 

 at base and curving to apex ; first subcostal at nearly one-half before end of the ceU ; 

 discocellular shghtly concave, oblique, radial from the middle; cell broad; middle 

 median from close to end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before the end ; 

 submedian slightly curved, internal vein recurved. Body robust, thorax stout ; palpi 

 porrect, adpressed, second joint squamose, extending one-third beyond the hea-d, 



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