436 LYCANIDA. LOXURA. 
977. Loxura atymnus, Cramer. (PLATE XXIX, Fic. 232 @). 
Papilio atymnus, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. iv, p. 82, pl. cccxxxi, figs. D, E (1780) ; id., Fabricius, Mant. Ins, 
vol. ii, p. 70, n. 662 (1787) ; id., Donovan, Ins. China, p. 70, pl. xxxix, fig. 1 (1798); Hesperia atymnus, id., Ent. 
Syst., vol. iii, pt. 1, p. 283, n. 88 (1793) ; Marmessus atymnus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 81, n. 828 (1816) 5 
Myrina atymnus, Godart, Enc. Méth., vol. ix, p. 594, n. 5 (1823) ; id., Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. Co., pl. ii 
figs. 6, 6a, imago ; 6b-e, structure of imago; Loxura atyninus, id., 1. c., p. 121, n. 49 (1829) ; id., Boisduval, 
Sp. Gén., pl. vii, fig. 3 (1836); id., Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 51, nm. go (1857) $ 
id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 281, n. 1, pl. xxiv, fig. 7, male (1885); id., Staudinger, Ex, Schmett., p. 278, 
pl. xcv, ale (1888); Myrina alymnus, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 353, n. 1. 
HABITAT: Coromandel Coast (Cramer) ; throughout India (except the higher Himalayas 
and the desert tracts), Burma, Malay Peninsula, the Nicobar Isles, Siam, Nias Island, Java, 
Borneo, China. 
EXPANSE: @,2, 1°25 to 1°80 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : ** MALE and FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings fulvous, the intensity 
of the tint varying in different individuals, from florid but not glossy orange to pale saffron 
yellow. Forewing with the exterior and posterior margins blackish-brown, the intermediate 
boundary being regular, and passing in an arch from the middle of the costa to the inner 
apical angle, leaving the greatest breadth at the tip. Aimdwing with a narrower and paler 
apical border, whose inner edge is slightly dentate and gradually diffused in the ground-colour 
of the surface, or entirely covered with a diluted yellowish tint; inner margin dirty grayish 
and downy, lengthened in the direction of the anal appendage, which is irrorated with dusky 
white. UNDERSIDE, doth wings covered with a yellow ochraceous pulverulent tint which 
is uniformly diffused over the whole surface ; marked with four brownish parallel strige, 
the two interior ones being very obsolete and apparent only in fresh and well-conditioned 
specimens, the third extending over the middle of both wings is the most distinct and composed 
of darkish lunules in close succession, the fourth just within the margin is faint and inter- 
rupted. Hindwing, the transverse anal extremity is marked with a brownish streak consisting 
of three confluent spots, which are covered along the margin with whitish irrorations, the inner 
spot being diffused over the rounded extremity of the anal appendage. ody brownish above 
with aslight admixture of yellow ; the thorax bears delicate silky hairs ; underneath these 
parts are covered with a short close whitish down. Awtenne brown. Tail pale fulvous 
with an obscure brownish margin and a whitish tip. The FEMALE, according to my 
observation, can be distinguished only by the structure of the anterior tarsi ; in colour and 
painting it differs not perceptibly from the male.” (Horsfield, \.c.) The female may also 
be known from the male by the forewing being broader, the costa more arched, the inner 
margin is longer than in the male, thus giving the wing a blunter appearance. 
In suitable localities, Z. a¢ymnus may be found almost throughout India. It does not 
occur inthe purely desert tracts of Sind and Kajputana, nor perhaps in the plains of the 
Punjab or the North Western Provinces. It is common inthe outer Himalayas, Bengal, 
Assam, Burma, Orissa, and in South India, except in the tracts where it is replaced by 
L. surya, Moore In the Nicobars it occurs on Kamorta, Nankowri, Little and Great Nicobar, 
The figure shews both sides of a male specimen from Calcutta in my collection, 
978. Loxura surya, Moore. 
L. surya, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat, Lep. Mus. E. I. C., vol. i, p. 52, n. ot, pl. 1a, fig. 13, 
male (1857). 
Hapirat : Canara (Moore), Karwar, Travancore. 
EXpaNsE: 6, 9, 1°4 to 16 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : MALE. “ UPPERSIDE, both wings differ from Z. atymnus, Cramer, in 
having the falvous colour more intense and brighter. Forewing with the blackish-brown border 
darker, extending to the base of the wing, and occupying the whole space between the costal 
nervure and the anterior margin, Hindwing with a patch of blackish-brown near the base of 
