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AMBLYPODIA. By I)r. A. Seitz. 
(million. 
ammonifies. 
chunsu. 
ham i non. 
arid. 
asakurae. 
corthata. 
birmana. 
aberrans. 
paraganesa. 
zephyretta. 
ganesa. 
wed ii. 
arvina. 
udala. 
adulans. 
caeca. 
buddha. 
aleia. 
ings composed of ring-shaped circles filled with a slightly darker colour. A somewhat doubtful species which 
is compared with agesias (150 Be) in the original description, though other authors do not find any resem¬ 
blance. Tenasserim. 
A. amnion Hew. (148 h) is a small species with fine tails; above lustrous dark blue with a black mar¬ 
gin of 2 to 3 mm width, beneath very variegated, since cinnamon-brown bands and spots are here separated 
from the greyish-blue ground-colour by a distinct white bordering. The typical form flies near Singapore. -— 
ammonides Doh. (148 h) is the form from Tenasserim, above with a more lilac tint, in undamaged specimens 
there is a very fine small tail which, however, breaks off very easily and is also absent in the figured specimen. 
chunsu Fruhst. is the Sumatran form, the black marginal band above being much broader and in the hindwing 
extending almost to the cell. hannnon Fruhst from Java, is larger than the preceding forms and exhibits 
above a narrower black distal margin. 
A. ariel Doh. (148 h) is smaller, beneath still more variegated, above more radiantly blue, otherwise 
very similar to the preceding species which it seens to represent in the north of Indo-China. — asakurae Mats. 
even goes as far as Formosa. Specimens from there show a more leaden-bluish upper surface with a black marginal 
band of 2 y 2 mm width, and beneath they already approximate the Indian paraganesa (147 f) on which Moore 
founded his genus Acesina. 
A. birmana. The easternmost form of this species: corthata Fruhst. flying in Hongkong is presumably 
very closely allied to ariel. In corthata the upper surface of the S is dark, but intensely bluish-violet. Easily 
separable from typical birmana by the hindwing in which the dark marginal band is analwards narrower. - 
In typical birmana Mr. (= arisba Nic.) the postmedian band on the forewing beneath is still coherent, whereas 
in the larger form aberrans Nic. (150 B d) it is interrupted in the centre. In this form from Tenasserim the $ has 
also much more white in the disc of the forewing above. The of all the forms are above violettish-blue with 
a broader or narrower black margin. 
A. paraganesa Nic. (147 f). As the name indicates, it is above already very similar to ganesa (Vol. I. 
pi. 75 e). the above violettish blue with a broad black marginal band; beneath the spots and bands are deep 
chocolate brown, encircled with white, and situate on a dull earth-brown ground which is whitish in some places. 
Northern India. — zephyretta Doh. represents the species in Assam; here both sexes are above quite blackish- 
brown, only in the area of the discal cell there is lustrous bluish colouring. 
A. ganesa Mr., from West Himalaya, has been dealt in Vol. I on p. 275, and the figure supplied there 
gives us, although the ground-colour of the under surface is too light, an idea of this unmistakable species (the 
similar ariel [148 h] has a small tail). In the lower valleys of the mountains ganesa also penetrates into the Indian 
faunal region. Most remarkable is the discovery of a Lycaenid A. weelii Piep. in the Prayangan Mts. (at an 
altitude of 1700 m) in Java, which is so very similar to the Japanese loomisi Pr. (Vol. I, pi. 75 c) that we may 
refer to its figure from which weelii scarcely differs above, beneath only in the narrower, centrally pierced post¬ 
median band. Both sexes of weelii are of rather the same colouring; the only $ known is smaller than the 
A. arvina Hew. (= aboe Nic.) (147 e as aronia). Hindwing quite oval, without small tails. Upper 
surface in the S lustrous dark ultramarine with a black margin of about 1% mm with; $ light blue with a 
marginal band of 4 to 5 mm width. Under surface very characteristic, quite dark violettish-brown, the anal 
region of the forewing lighter, but not so white as in our figure. In the forewing there are mostly also in and 
below the cell oval ring-spots which, however, are hardly visible owing to the dark ground-colour. South- 
Western Indo-China and Java. - adala Nic., likewise from Indo-China, is so similar to this form that it was 
temporarily taken to be the $ of it, and the form adulans Nic. probably only represents darker specimens of 
adala. Fresh specimens exhibit beneath an intense lilac reflection which, however, disappears in older specimens, 
leaving a reddish tint. - adala seems to be a distinct species. 
A. caeca Hew. (147 e) is very similar to arvina , but beneath still darker, without the anal brightening 
in the forewing and with a short tail-appendage of the hindwing. The is above lustrous lilac with a very 
narrow black margin; the $ is violettish-blue with a broad marginal black and cell-end spot. Hitherto only 
found in Borneo. 
A. buddha B.-Balc. (147 h). Bethune-Baker’s form, which is above lustrous light blue with a black 
marginal band in the <$ of more than 2 mm width, exhibits beneath the postmedian band of the forewing only 
feebly bent, whereas in Piepers and Snellen’s specimens the band is almost rectangularly bent behind the 
cell. These specimens which also show a darker ground-colour beneath are presumably a local or season-form, 
and as they were always denominated with such conspicuous differences in the marking, I should like to propose 
the name aleta {Snell, i. 1.) for the latter. The species only occurs in Java; btiddha was discovered by Fruh- 
Storfer on the Volcano of Gedeh (West Java), aleta was captured on the Semaru (East Java) by Piepers. 
