AMBLYPODIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
959 
A. eumolphus Cr. (= bupola Hew.) (149 cl). The species is recognisable by the showing above a 
bright green lustre; but it has not been decided whether some of these green forms do not differ so much from 
each other as to be dealt with as separate species. — Typical specimens are from Northern India, from the rainy 
season. $ abundantly emerald-green with a golden lustre, the jet-black marginal band being narrow on the 
forewing and broad on the hindwing. $ above dark red-brown with a violettish-blue reflection in the basal 
portion; hindwing with 1 small tail. — - In tagore Fruhst., from Assam, the <$ is smaller, but it has a broader 
black marginal band than specimens from Sikkim. In the $ of this form the blue colour above is darker, but 
it extends farther across the wing. —- Already to the south of Assam this form is replaced by hellenore Doh. 
which is then distributed across Burmah. It has more pointed and longer wings, and beneath the coffee-brown 
markings are more intensely prominent in the whitish greyish-brown ground-colour. — maxwelli Dist., which 
it distributed from Burmah all over the Malayan Peninsula, has much broader, rounder wings; here the blue 
reflection of the $ is still farther expanded, almost across the whole surface of the wings. Malacca. —- farquhari 
Dist. (= turguhari Piep. & Snell.) is presumably the belongig to it, with a very intense yellowish-green gold 
lustre which in the hindwing behind the cell-end extends much farther towards the margin than in eumolphus 
from North-India. — caesarion Fruhst., from North-East Sumatra is smaller than specimens from Malacca, and the 
$ above exhibits a broader dark marginal band. February till October. —■ siroes Fruhst. is an alpine form from 
Sumatra, the $ of which has such a narrow dark margin of the wings, that it is hardly yet recognisable in the 
apex of the forewing. Beneath the markings are particularly dark and surrounded by a bright white colour; 
from the Battak Mts. — adonias Hew. (149 d), from East Java, shows a particularly grey-tinged ground¬ 
colour of the under surface, on which metallic anal spots show a silvery gloss; the $ is above lighter blue. 
—• gryrtea Hew. is larger than adonias, and the $ is above darker blue. From West Java. — sanherib Fruhst. 
is apparently an alpine form discovered by Fruhstorfer on the Volcano of Gedeh at an altitude of 1200 m. 
Here the forewing is as narrow and pointed as in hellenore ; the under surface exhibits several places with a violet 
hue, discoloured by whitish, whereby the form is also separated from siroes being beneath more hhiformly 
blackish-grey. — caesetius Fruhst. originates from Borneo. $ beneath darker than caesarion, with more 
conspicuous and more blackened catenary bands. According to Moulton, this form also contains transitions 
to staudingeri Smpr., for which reason I place: staudingeri Smpr. (150 d) to the forms of eumolphus. The green 
colour of the hindwing above extends in the shape of rays into the dark brown marginal band, whilst the under 
surface exhibits dark coffee-brown spots distinctly edged with white. Philippines; the species is either rare or very 
local. -— heliogabalus Fruhst. (162 a), from New Guinea where it is in some places rather common; easily discer¬ 
nible by the hindwing being green almost to the margin, whereas the under surface approaches Javanese sanherib. 
—■ We finally mention ab. elis Fruhst. designating those eumolphus from North India lacking the anal metallic 
spot on the hindwing beneath, and which may have to be regarded as a dry season form. Specimens from Palawan 
where, however, the species is said to be very rare, seem to form transitions to staudingeri ; above the $ is very 
light blue with a broad dark marginal band; beneath it resembles hellenore, but the very dark, very contrasting 
longitudinal bands form the transition to staudingeri ; this is the form aristomachus Fruhst. 
A. aurea Hew. (147 g). S of a very bright greenish golden colour, on the hindwing with a sharply 
defined black marginal band extending to the centre of the wing, whereas the forewing only exhibits at the 
anal angle slight traces of the marginal black which attains a width of hardly 1 mm. The marking beneath 
deviates from the forms of eumolphus by the narrower, more regularly shaped postmedian band of both wings. 
Borneo. — bomeensis B.-Bak. (149 d, e) is probably only an alpine form of it, from the Kina Bala, with an 
entirely dull-marked under surface which in the Sumatran form: trogon Dist. flying also in Malacca shows a 
beautiful violet reflection. 
A. horsfieldi Pag. (= eumolphus $ Horsf.) (150 d) is at once discernible from the preceding forms 
by the broad, proximally irregularly radiating blackish-brown margin of the forewing, being also exhibited 
in the $ the wings of which show a somewhat darker green than the forms of aurea which they resemble somewhat 
on the under surface excepting the differences in the marking which are to be seen from our figures. The $ 
is like the but the golden green colour above is replaced by a violettish blue, and the total colouring beneath 
is somewhat lighter. Eastern Java. —- Already in Western Java the specimens differ somewhat from the 
typical form; the under surface is darker, of a more intense reddish-brown, not greyish-brown, colour; this 
is vellanus Fruhst., the upper surface of which however, according to Piepers and Snellen does not exhibit 
any difference from the type. ■—- In Sumatra also two forms have been ascertained: basiviridis Nic. (150 c) 
with a very regular and clear marking beneath, the light-edged spots and bands being almost of the ground¬ 
colour; from North-East Sumatra, and also in the Peninsula of Malacca; and herodianus Fruhst., the larger 
form from West Sumatra; here the under surface is lighter, the chains of spots are broader, surrounded by 
a purer greyish-white instead of yellow. — biru Fruhst. is the form from Nias where, however, the species is 
apparently very rare; beneath the metallic-scaled spot in the anal region of the hind wing is enlarged and shows 
a very bright bluish-green gloss. — eurysthenes Fruhst., from Tenasserim, is distinguished by the S3 exhibiting 
a much broader golden green colour above leaving free a much narrower dark margin; in the $ the blue colour 
of the upper surface is correspondingly increased. —- The species is also found in Borneo, where the under 
surface is lighter greyish-brown than in basiviridis ; the spots on the proximal halves of both wings beneath 
eumolphus. 
lay ore. 
hellenore. 
maxwelli. 
farquhari. 
caesarion. 
siroes. 
adonias. 
grynea. 
sanherib. 
caesetius. 
staudingeri. 
heliogdba - 
lus. 
elis. 
aristoma¬ 
chus. 
aurea. 
bomeensis. 
trogon. 
horsfieldi. 
vellanus. 
basiviridis. 
herodianus. 
biru. 
eurysthenes. 
