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AMBLYPODIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
eamdeo. 
varro. 
sphendale. 
opalina. 
viola. 
annul at a. 
tristis. 
tephlis. 
bazaloides. 
iheba. 
argentea. 
sangira. 
aronya. 
A. eamdeo Mr. (149 d) is easily recognised by the colouring above; the $ is very light sky-blue, with 
a large white discal spot. Wings of $ broadly and irregularly margined. Beneath all the transverse bands are 
broken up into rows of ring-spots. — Typical eamdeo occur in Sikkim, where the species attains its largest size. 
— Specimens from the dry season, from Tenasserim, varro Fruhst., are much smaller than even the smallest 
Sikkim-specimens; their upper surface is of a still paler ground-colour, but the white discal parts are somewhat 
more confined. The under surface is almost entirely white, in some places hued with smoky grey. The maculae 
being brownish-black in eamdeo are yellowish-grey and faded. — sphendale Fruhst. is the Annam-form, being 
about two thirds of the normal size of eamdeo ; the white discal spot above is entirely absent, so that the form 
almost looks more like a padus from Halmaheira than like a eamdeo from Sikkim, Assam, or Tonkin. Beneath 
darker with a more extensive greyish-black colouring. The discal spots are black instead of brown, more distinctly 
bordered with a purer white; the submarginal band is distinct, not so hazy as in typical eamdeo. — The species 
is widely distributed over Continental India, but exclusively in low districts; the imagines are common at 
their habitats, but owing to their delicacy difficult to capture without being damaged. 
A. opalina Mr. This species (according to Niceville) looks like a miniature form of eamdeo from 
which, however, it differs as follows: the blue of the upper surface is more lilac and the whitish spot in the 
disc of the forewing is entirely absent. The spots beneath are less distinct, and their distal bordering by a 
fine white line, as in eamdeo, is absent here. Besides the spots beneath are also somewhat differently shaped. 
The species of which only 1 B was known at the time of the description, has an expanse of but 38 mm and 
occurs in the Khasia Hills, being apparently rare. 
A. viola Semp. nee Fob. (148 b) is separated from Rober’s viola (148 a) representing a form of padus 
by the much broader black margin in both sexes and by the colour above being much more intensely .tinged 
with violet, particularly in the §. In viola Semp. there also occur more sky-blue and ultramarine $$, but 
the costal impression is still different, although the under surface is very similar, particularly in the postmedian 
band of spots which is interrupted behind the lower cell-angle. South East Mindanao; apparently rare or of 
local occurrence. What is known of the species is based upon 3 specimens in the Coll. Staudenger: 1 
and two differently coloured 
A. annulata Fldr. (= erebina Stgr.) (148 b) approximates viola in size and under surface, but above 
it is brown, the $ with some blue scaling hardly extending to the centre of the wing. The $ is above somewhat 
bluer, but likewise with a very broad black marginal band. Beneath the chains of spots are somewhat more 
irregular. From Amboina and the Philippines. — tristis Rob., from Bangkei, is above particularly scantily 
irrorated with blue, but Bethune-Baker states that this irroration disappears, if the insect flies for a long 
time, which fact would not speak in favour of separating a Bangkei-race as a geographical form. 
A. tephlis Hew. (-- bicolora Fob.) (149 e). Under surface in both sexes more scantily marked and 
ringed; ground-colour of hindwing in the marginal third lighter. $ above lilac, with a purple gloss, $ brown, 
more or less covered with lilac, but with a broader black margin of both wings; sometimes only in the basal 
half covered with lilac. Celebes, besides Halmaheira *). 
A. bazaloides Hew. (= bicolora Semp. nec Fob.) (148 a). The light part of the hindwing beneath 
is so extensive that only the costal part remains darker spotted. Upper surface in both sexes of a deep purple 
violet with a black marginal band of about 3 mm width in tiled', being still broader in the $. Philippines, Assam, 
South West India. 
A. theba Heiv. nec Nicev. (150 b). Likewise from the Philippines, but much larger, the ground¬ 
colour beneath, except before the tornus of the forewing, nowhere lighter, but quite dark chocolate, whereas 
the markings are almost purely ivory-white. Above the is of a wonderful morphoAAwe colour; a purple 
reflection on the costal portion, the costa and distal margin are rather broad black; hindwing with a broad 
black costa and a narrow black distal margin exhibiting dark internerval dots. $ above dark brown, basal 
and central areas blue. 
A. argentea Stgr. (— clarissa Sm.) (150 Bb), from Celebes, looks beneath almost exactly like sangira 
(148 b), bat it is at once discernible by the mother-of-pearl white upper surface showing lilac or greenish reflections 
in a certain light. Margin and apex of forewing blackish, thus superficially resembling the colouring of some 
Lampides, even of small Pieridae. 
A. sangira B.-Bak. (148 b) has the same under surface, but the upper surface of the is more silvery 
blue, and the bluish-black apical spot of the forewing is obliquely cut off. Island of Sangir. 
A. aronya Heiv. (150 b) is above darker blue, the <$ may even be lustrous purple or lilac. Beneath 
the markings are of a pure white. It represents the preceding species in the Philippines. $ and $ are beneath 
alike. The species is apparently not common in Mindanao. 
*) Bethtjne-Baker mentions beside Halmaheira also ..Gilolo" which, however, is merely another name for the 
same island. 
