434 LYCAENIDZ. LOXURA. 
Both Messrs. Moore and Distant have described this species, but neither of them say 
what sex they had before them. The male has the outer margin of the forewing very straight, 
almost concave; the female has it convex and the apex more rounded ; the male has a conspi- 
cuous deep black shining round discal glandular patch of modified scales on the upperside of the 
forewing which is crossed by the median nervules; this is of course absent in the female ; 
the male has some scattered blue scales on either side of the submedian nervure. In other 
respects the opposite sexes do not differ. 
Mr. Doherty informs me that it occurs in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, in Arakan, and in 
the Bassein district; Mr. Distant records it from numerous localities in the Malay Peninsula ; 
it occurs also in the islands of Nias and Java, and probably elsewhere in the Malay Archipelago. 
In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, are two males from Perak, anda female labelled ‘“ India ” 
from the old East India Company’s Museum. I append asa foot-note Mr. Distant’s descrip- 
tion of this species.* 
The figure shows both sides of a male specimen from Perak in the collection of the Indian 
Museum, Calcutta. 
The ninth division that I have made in the Indian Zycenide I have called the Zoxurat 
group ; it contains two genera only occurring within Indian limits, though Mr, Doherty 
includes in it the last genus, Zooxylides, mihi, which differs from Zoxura, Horsfield, and Vasoda, 
Doherty, MS., so entirely in appearance and structure. The Zoxura group, as understood 
by me, is characterised by having one very long tail to the hindwing, which wing is greatly 
elongated posteriorly and is lobate at the anal angle. Both genera have both sexes coloured 
rich orange on the upperside with outer black margins, and the underside yellow. In Zoxura both 
sexes have three subcostal nervules to the forewing, in Yasoda they have two only. Zoxura has 
no secondary sexual characters inthe male, while Yasoda has an elongated glandular patch 
of scales on the upperside of the hindwing on the first median nervule, which is quite a 
unique position amongst the Lycenide for such a character. The two genera are, I believe, 
strictly confined to the Indo-Malayan region. Several closely-allied species have been described 
as appertaining to Loxura, two doubtfully distinct species to Yasoda. 
Genus 164.—LOXURA, Horsfield. (PLATE XXIX). 
Loxura, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E, I. C., p. 11g (1829) ; id., Moore, Lep, Cey., vol. i, p. 110 (188r) ; id., 
Distant, Rhop. Malay., p, 280 (1885). 
‘“‘ FOREWING, subtriangular ; costa very convex to the tip, afer pointed, exterior margin 
straight, slightly oblique, posterior margin long, nearly straight ; costal mervure extending to half 
the wing ; first, second and third subcostal nervules at equal distances apart, first subcostal emitted 
at more than one-half before the end of the cell, second at one-third, third at one-fifth, fourth 
subcostal at one-half from below the third and terminating at the apex, /i//4 subcostal from 
aslight angle at the end of the cell ; disco-cellular nervules slightly concave, erect ; radial [lower 
nnn nnn EEE Seana 
© Uppsrsivk, doth wings dark chocolate-brown. Forewing with two obscure streaks of scattered bluish 
scales situated one on each side of the submedian nervure. Hindwing with a transverse macular white fascia 
crossing the wing from the apex of the second subcostal nervule to the notch at the anal angle ; beneath this 
is a white spot at the anal angle and a narrow submarginal white line ; submedian nervure tinged with greyish ; 
tails white, with faint dark median lines. Cilia white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings ochraceous. Jorewing 
reddish-ochraceous. A/indwing with the anal angular area largely white, anteriorly defined by a waved blackish 
line bordered with greyish, and from which some very obscure narrow pale linear fascie radiate towards 
the costa; this white area includes the following black spots :—a submarginal row of six, of which the first, 
second and fifth are small and linear ; above the fifth and sixth is a broad irregular spot, and another is placed 
above the notch at the anal angle ; ¢ai/s and cilia as above, Body more or less concolorous with | the wings 5 
Zegs greyish, broadly annulated with black ; antenne dark fuscous, narrowly annulated beneath with greyish.”” 
(Distant, \. c-) 
+ See foot-note page 398. This group should be known as the MZyrina group, as the type species of that 
genus is evidently closely allied to the species here included in the genus Loxura, and Myrina is a much older 
generic name than Loxura, The genus Myrina differs from Loxwra according to Mr. Trimen, in the discoidal 
nervules of the forewing having a common origia at the apex of the cell, so that the middle disco-cellular nervule 
is obsolete. 
