LYCENID, DRUPADIA. 429 
Genus 162.—DRUPADIA, Moore. (PLATE XXIX), 
Drupadia,* Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 31 (1884) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 236 (1884). 
“ FOREWING, differs from typical Hypolycena, Felder, in its more triangular form, the 
costa being longer and more regularly convex, the exterior margin more oblique, and the 
posterior margin shorter and convex towards the base [in the male only, this convexed portion 
placed opposite to an oval glandular patch of scales differently-formed to those on the rest of 
the wing, and lying on both sides of the submedian nervure near its base]. HINDWING, 
somewhat shorter, the cos¢a being very convex in the middle, the exterzor margin truncated from 
the second median nervule ; with three /az/s, the middle one long, the others short. Pali 
with the second joint much longer, and the third shorter and stouter [than in Hy/olycena]. 
MALE with a prominent glandular patch of scales between the costal and subcostal nervures 
on the upperside of the hindwing, lacking in the female. Type, Myrixa ravindra, Horsfield.” 
(AZoore, |. c.) 
“This genus is allied to Catapeci/ma, Butler, in having only three subcostal ner- 
vules to the forewing, and in possessing three tails to the hindwing. The differential 
points exist most strongly in the hindwing, which [in the male] is convex at the base 
and then strongly oblique to the apex, which is subacute ; the posterior margin is oblique 
to the apex of the second median nervule, when it is [suddenly] more produced, and contains 
a tail at the apices of the second and first median nervules and of the submedian 
nervure ; the abdominal margin is very strongly cleft near the anal angle ; the costal nervure 
does not extend to about the apex of the wing as in Catafeci/ma, but terminates on the costal 
margin at about two-thirds of its length; the subcostal nervules bifurcate a little beyond 
the middle of the cell, and the third and second median nervules have an apparently common 
origin a little before the end of the cell; the internal nervure is straight, and terminates 
just above the excavation of the abdominal margin. The palpi are robust and porrect, 
projecting fully two-thirds of their length beyond the eyes ; the second joint clothed with coarse 
adpressed hairs; the third joint is slender compared with the second joint, but robust com- 
pared with the corresponding joint of many other somewhat allied genera ; the palpi are longer 
in the female than in the male. Legs moderately robust.” Eyes naked. 
“ Drupadia superficially resembles the genus B:dwanda, Distant ; and, as arranged by Mr. 
Moore, it included the species which here stands as the type of Biduwanda [thesmia, Hewitson]. 
The resemblance, however, is only superficial, as one genus possesses three subcostal nervules 
to the forewing, and the other genus is provided with four.” (Dvs¢ant, |. c.) 
In the forewing of Drugadia boisduvali, Moore, the costal nervure terminates about 
opposite to the apex of the discoidal cell, the second subcostal nervule is given off from 
the subcostal nervure rather nearer to the base of the first than to that of the upper discoidal ; the 
middle disco-cellular is shorter than the lower, both are concave and slightly inwardly oblique ; 
the second median nervule is given off some little distance before the end of the cell; in the 
male there is a patch of glandular scales on either side of the submedian nervure near the base 
on the underside of the wing, and the inner margin of the wing is strongly bowed outwards 
below this point ; in the female there is no glandular patch, and the inner margin is straight. 
Mr. Distant describes the hindwing of the male nearly correctly, but does not point out how 
it differs from that of the female. The hindwing of the male has the costal margin abnormally 
produced and arched to cover the glandular patch on the inner margin of the forewing, but 
there is no need for this extension in the female, which has therefore the costa of the hindwing 
“Very near to the “ Myrina” cinesia of Hewitson,t from Borneo, from which it appears to differ in 
the presence of the ‘ male-mark ’ on the upperside of the forewing ; on the upperside of the hindwing there is a 
black band in the anal region, with a considerable white band beyond it, which latter is not found in 
B. cinesia, and on the underside of the hindwing in the inner black band being half as wide, the outer band 
also much narrower, and enclosing a ferruginous line, in 2. czmesia it 1s wholly black; the middle tail is 
also more than one-third Jonger in my species.” (de Nicévidle, |. c.) 
+ “ Myrina cinesia, Hewitson, Ill, Diurn. Lep., p. 29, n. 5, pl. xiii, figs. 18, 19, male ;20, female (1863). 
* This name should fall before Marmessus of Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 81 (1816), of which the type 
is the Pafilio lisias of Fabricius. 
