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AMBLYPODIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
cidona. A. cidona Fruhst. Described according to 2 $$ from the Entrecasteaux Is. $ above as light morpho- 
blue as amytis, but the black margin of the wings is much broader. Under surface the most similar to that 
of philander (150 B a), but the bands are narrower; ground-colour, a pale brown, similar to that of alkisthenes. 
Fruhstorfer presumes this species to be the representative of the Australian amytis (so that it might yet 
be considered a local form of it) and to be the form which Bethune-Baker mentions as amytis of an uncommon 
size“. 
sophrosyne. A. sophrosyne Gr.-Sm. (150 Bb), from the Salomon Is., has in the $ forewing, which is above of a 
lustrous sky-blue, the costal area darkened by ultra-marine, whilst in the $ the costal parts of all the wings 
are black. Easily discernible by the under surface where we notice in the chestnut-brown proximal parts of 
the wings small ring-spots distinctly surrounded by white. 
micale. A. micale Blch. (149 f) is above very similar to sophrosyne, on the wliole perhaps somewhat more 
ultra-marine, and the forewing in the costal area somewhat more violettish-blue. The under surface lacks the 
intense brightening in the distal part of all the wings; the spots are larger, more irregular and in the hindwing 
superba. surrounded by brown, not white. New" Guinea, Moluccas. — superba Bob. is beneath in both sexes browner, 
in the $ above the black margin of the wings is broader and more sharply defined. Described from Batjan, 
but according to Baker also found in other Moluccas and not tenable as a local form. 
kiriwinii. A. kiriwinii B.-Bak. (149 b) resembles very much centaurus, particularly on the under surface which 
is intermediary between the latter and micale'. Of the 3 spots in the cell of the forewing beneath the proximal 
one is by far the smallest. Easily discernible from centaurus by the light, intensely bright blue of the upper 
surface in the the $ is still lighter blue, but on both its wings the costa and the margin are broad black. 
From Trobriand and Fergusson Is. 
centaurus. A. centaurus F. (= helus Godt.) (150 a) is one of the most beautiful and also most common species 
with a very wide range. The upper surface of the exhibits an intense dark blue sometimes tinged with 
violet, with a great extensive shine; particularly when the imago has its half opened wings turned towards 
the sun, which the insects do especially after sudden rainfalls. Beneath the species is easily recognised by its 
regular marking as is w r ell seen from our figure. Individual aberrations are of frequent occurrence, and besides 
we also distinguish two groups of local forms. A northern form which, beside the typical centaurus F. from 
pirithous. the continental south of India and the Himalayan countries, contains yet pirithous Mr. found more to the 
east, beginning from Sikkim, and distinguished from typical centaurus extending to Malacca only by somewhat 
more intensely black margins of the blue colour above in the $. ■—- The southern forms are found in Ceylon, 
where the imago is very common, flying particularly at greater altitudes and in Kandy, where it even comes 
pirama. into the gardens of the town. The form has been separated as pirama Mr. exhibiting above a decidedly different 
coruscans. blue: more ultramarine in the G, violettish-blue in the $. - cotuscans W.-Mas., from the Andamans, has been 
separated yet from Ceylon-specimens as a local form, but according to Bethune-Baker it is not tenable; it 
pseudocen- is said to differ from the others in the blue colour exhibiting in the basal district a green reflection. — pseudo- 
taurus. cen taurus Dbl. (= amazona Pag.) is the common Javanese form which, however, also flies scarcely changed 
in Sumatra and Borneo; of a lighter and more radiant blue than typical specimens, without the intense violet 
nakula. tinge, but not so light lustrous as coruscans. — nakula Fldr. is a form from the Sunda Is., which was brought in 
particularly great numbers from Nias. It is charaterized by a more distinct marking beneath, particularly 
the postmedian bands in the forewing being very dark brown, and also the centres of the cellular dots are very 
prominent. This rather large form may be more confined to certain seasons than to certain countries, and 
centenitus. seems to prevail especially where there is no real dry season. — Another Sunda-form centenitus Fruhst. is 
said to be much larger and darker blue than Sumatran and typical specimens of centaurus from the Continent. 
Beneath more abundantly mixed with grey, with an almost twice as broad verdigris subanal spot. Pulo-Tello 
cervidius. (Batu Is.). — cervidius Fruhst. looks in both sexes like centenitus, being thus darker blue than nakula from 
the Sunda Str., but the black marginal band of the $ is much broader. Under surface with stronger longitudinal 
eupolis. bands being more intensely edged with yellowish or greyish-white. — Still farther to the south occurs eupolis 
Misk. (149 b) being above very deep violet with a slight purple gloss. The black distal margin is here in the 
$ broad on the forewing, narrow on the hindwing. Queensland, as far as Cairns and Mackay, but it 
asopu-s. apparently does not reach New South Wales anymore, though it occurs in the Key Is. — asopus Wat. db By., 
likewise from Australia, but ee more western form, shows almost quite purple brown $$, on the upper surface 
of which we only notice yet a blue gloss at the bases of the wings. — Larva green, on the dorsum a cinnamon- 
brown saddle-marking; laterally also marked brownish. The larva itself is oblong-oval, clothed with rather 
short hair, and with a blackish lateral line; on Schleicheria and other plants. The imagines are easily and 
often in great numbers beaten from bushes; I never found them resting very high on bushes, as Wade 
states. 
alkisthenes. A. alkisthenes Fruhst., from Friedrich-Wilhelmsland, approximates the centaur us-forms, but it has 
broader and rounder wings than the eastern forms of this species. $ much darker bluish-violet, also the $$ 
