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riorem arcuatim productd, tertid dimidiatd, quartd et quintd completis in regione anali 

 abrupti inflexis, sextd basilari abbreviatd ; regione anali Iceti fulvd, punctis oceUaribus 

 duobus aterrimis fretd, exteriore caudis intermedia oblongo tcmid argented intus aucto, intimo 

 majore appendiculo ipso imposito angulari strigd argented brevi interiore ornato. (Exp. alar. 

 1 unc. 3 lin.) 



39. Amblypodia Syama. Al(S supra fusccB canescenti-nebulosa fasciis pagince inferioris obsolete 

 notatce, angulo anali posticarum fulvo punctis duobus aterrimis freto, exteriore maxima subo- 

 cellari, singulis i?itus striald argented auctis ; maris area anali anticarum pagindque fer^ totd 

 posticnrum violaceo micantes : subtus sulphurece, fasciis nigris strigisve argenteis intermediis 

 continuis vel interrttptis ; anticcR fasciis sex, duabus marginalibus completis, exteriore inarnatd, 

 tertid dimidiatd cui quartd brevissimd paralleld, quintd completd angulum analem versus 

 tendente dimidio posteriare dilatiore et denique attenuato, sextd dimidiatd tcmiam fuscam 

 area analis attingente, liturd, insuper basali longitudinali atrd ; posticce fasciis quatuor, 

 marginalibus parallelis, exteriore abbreviatd interruptd, secundd arcuatim trans regianem 

 analem marginem interiorem petente, tertid dimidiatd, quartd completd in regione anali 

 abrupte inflexd et ad marginem internum long^ protensd, maculis insuper tribus in serie interiore 

 ordinatis singulis puncto centrali argentea fretis et denique macula basali triangulari corpori 

 contigud ; regione anali lati fulvd punctis duobus aterrimis ocellatd interiore orbiculari 

 maxima appendiculo ipso imposito, singulis intus striolis argenteis auctis. (Exp. alar. 

 13 lin.) 



Hospitatur in Mus. dom. Banks. 



Two of the species last enumerated were united by Fabricius under the name of Vulcanus, as appears 

 from the Banksian Cabinet, now preserved at the Linnean Society, where our thirty-ninth species is marked 

 with a ticket in Fabricius' own writing, while the detailed description of H. R. Vidcanus, in the Entom. 

 System. Emmend. iii. p. 264 evidently depicts our thirty-seventh species, which has therefore a prior right 

 to that name. This species is also contained in the Banksian Cabinet. 



The materials in the collection at the India-house, from Java and Continental India, have enabled me 

 clearly to discriminate three species, and I have endeavoured to exhibit the most prominent characters 

 of each. This discrimination does not rest on the examination of a single specimen, or of one sex only : of 

 No. 37, Amblypodia Vulcanus, we have four specimens : of No. 38, Ami, Lohita, three, two males and 

 one female ; and of No. 39, Amb. Syama, two specimens, one of each sex ; most of these are in a perfect 

 state of preservation. I shall concisely sketch the peculiarities of each. 



Amblypodia Vulcanus, No. 37, is prominently marked above, in the fore wings of both sexes, by 

 four short unequal waving strialce of a fulvous colour: underneath, in the fore wings the third band 

 is short, tending towards and touching the second band ; the fourth is complete and has, at the 

 costal extremity, a short accessary band, whence it appears to be bifid exteriorly ; in the hinder 

 wings the third band is dimidial and loosely united, behind the base, with the second; but the 

 most striking distinctive character of this species is a deep black marginal thread, which passes in 

 an undulated course along the edge of all the broader bands. 



Amblypodia Lohita, No. 38, has the upper surface brovm, slightly variegated with gray, espe- 

 cially in the female, and marked with a few obsolete bands, of a deeper tint : underneath the 



p 2 bands, 



