NIPHANDA. — AMBLOPALA. 



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subtus fusco-griseis, maculis fasciisque fuscis, albido-marginatis, lunulis marginalibua fusois, 

 albido-annulatis. 



" Expans. alar, antic, unc. (Bremer ^ Grey, Schmett, N. China's.) 



Pryer states that this species frequents highlands and mountain slopes 

 from June to September, and gives Nikko and Fujisan as localities. I found 

 it common throughout Japan and Corea during July and August. Pratt and 

 Kricheldorff obtained the species at Kiukiang and Ichang in Central China, 

 and at many of the places where they collected in Western China. Mr. W. 

 B. Pryer records specimens from Ningpo. 



The form A^. J^asca, female, to which Graeser {I. c.) has given the name 

 lasurea, has the disc of the wings tinged with pale blue. It occurs, with all 

 the intergrades connecting it with the type, in Central China, and a specimen 

 from Chang-yang is figured on Plate XXXI. fig. J 7. 



Distribution. Amurland, Corea, Japan, Central, North, and Western China. 



Genus AMBLOPALA, gen. nov. 



Primaries : inner margin quite straight ; outer margin very slightly convex below the pointed 

 apex and straight from the middle to inner margin. Secondaries have the costa convex at 

 the base, then slightly concave to the obtuse apex ; the outer margin is rounded, but slightly 

 concave below apex and towards the greatly produced aual lobe. Neuration very similar to 

 that of Amblypodia. 



The legs and underside of the entire body are thickly pubescent. 



Antennae quite half the length of fore wing, with a well-formed club, and altogether more robust 

 than in either Amhlypodia or Arlwpala. 



Amblopala avidiena. 



Amblypodia avidiena, Hewitson, Ent. Mo. Mag. xiv. p. 108 (1877) ; Hewitson, 111. 

 Diurn. Lep. [Lyccenidce] Suppl. p. 23, pi. viii. figs. 72, 73 (1878). 



" TJpperside : anterior wing with the basal half (except the costal margin, which is rufous brown) 

 lilac-blue, the outer half dark brown, marked by a bifid spot of orange, the fringe rufous. 

 Posterior wing rufous brown, with a trifid subbasal blue spot ; the anal lobe large and 

 prominent. Underside : anterior wing pale ochreous brown, the outer margin broadly 

 rufous, bordered inwardly by a line of white. Posterior wing rufous, crossed from the costal 

 margin (where it is broad, and marked by a triangular rufous spot) to the anal angle (where 

 it is narrow) by a band of grey bordered on both sides with white. 



"Expanse 1| inch. 



" A remarkable species, belonging to the Narada group." {Hewitson, E. M. M.) 



Except that the female is rather larger and has a little more blue on all 

 the wings, the sexes do not differ. Hewitson's figure seems to represent a 

 female specimen. 



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