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the anterior margin, abdominal margin brown, UNDERSIDE, both wings dark ochreous.” (AZoore, 
l,c.) FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, forewing with the outer black border broader than in the male, the 
base of the wing more dusky. Aindwing with almost the entire surface thickly irrorated with 
black scales. Otherwise as in the male. 
This species or local race is probably confined to the heavy damp forests of Scuth India, 
It was originally recorded from Canara, which is one of tie localities Mr. Moore gives for 
ZL. atymnus. The female I have described above is identical with females of Z. prabha, Moore. 
There are specimens of it in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Karwar in Canara, and from 
Travancore. 
L. cassiopzia, Distant, a description of which is given below,* is closely allied to Z. surya. 
It has been recorded hitherto only from Perak in the Malay Peninsula, 
979. Lozura prabha, Moore. 
Myrina prabha, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 583, pl. lviii, fig. 5, /eale. 
HasitaT : South Andaman Isles. 
EXPANSE: 6, 1'25 to 1°70; 2, 1°50 to 1°80 inches. 
DEscrIPTION : “ MALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings red. Forewing with a black apical band, 
base of wing and costa dusky rufous-brown. Hindwing with a blackish costal border, subcostal 
veins, and narrow border on outer margin, abdominal margin dusky rufous-brown. UNDER- 
SIDE, doth wings ochreous-yellow, with two outer indistinct rows of small brownish spots 
on the forewing, and two indistinct bands on the Aimdwing, a speckled black-and-white mark 
at the angle of the tail. FrmMALe. Upprrsipe, doth wings red. Forewing with a bread black 
apical band and dusky rufous-brown base, Hindwing dark rufous-brown, disco-cellular nervules, 
median and internal nervures, and ¢aé/ streaked with red, tip of tail white. UNDERSIDE, doth 
wings asin the male. Body black above, white beneath ; pa/gé and /egs white-speckled.” 
“ Quite a differently-marked insect from its ally Myrina atymnus, Cramer.” (Moore, |. c.) 
This species, though from a limited and narrowly restricted locality, shows perhaps 
as great variation as Z. a/ymnus, which has an immense distribution. In the male on the 
upperside of the forewing the costa is sometimes black, though never so broadly so as 
in Z. surya, Moore, and ZL. cassiopeia, Distant, the outer margin of the hindwing is sometimes 
narrowly black, sometimes concolorous with the rest of the wing. Some females are hardly 
at ali dusky on the upperside, being coloured nearly as in the male. It is a very common 
species in the Andaman Isles, 
980, Loxura arcuata, Moore. 
L. arcuata, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. r11, pl. xlii, figs. 4, #zale; 4a, Semale; 46, larve and pupa (1881). 
HaPIrTaT : Ceylon. 
* Loxura cassiopeia, Distant, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xiv, p. 209 (1884) ; idem, 
id., Rhop. Malay., p. 282, n. 2, figs. 88, »zale ; 89, female (1885). Hanirat: Perak. Expanse: Wale and female, 
z°6 inches. Description : ‘“* MALE. UppERSIDE, oth wings dark reddish-ochraceous, Forewing with the 
costal margin (as far as the subcostal nervure) and the outer margin (broadest at the apex) fuscous or black, 
the base tinged with olivaceous-brown. Hindwing with the outer margin fuscous (darkest at the apex), the ci/ia 
ochraceous, the base and abdominal area more or less olivaceous-brown, ¢aiZ ochraceous, with an obscure 
medial reddish line, and the apex whitish. UNDERSIDE, doth wings bright ochraceous, with the following 
brownish spots :—/orewing with one about the middle of the cell, three disco-cellular and contiguous at the 
end of the cell, and beyond these are two separated by the second subcostal nervule ; a waved macular discal 
band, anda submarginal series of very small and somewhat obsolete spots. Hindwing with some obscure 
basal spots, a macular band crossing the disc, but not extending below the first median nervule, and a sub- 
marginal series of smallobscure spots as on the forewing. Body above fuscous, beneath greyish ; Zegs and 
palpi blackish, speckled with greyish. FEMALE. UprersIDE, doth wings resembling the male. Hindwing 
shaded with fuscous, whichis darkest on the costal and outer margins.” UNDERSIDE, Jot wings as in the 
male. 
‘« The nearest ally of this species is the Z. A»adha, Moore, from the Andaman Isles.” (Distant, 1. c. 
in Rhop. Malay.) wae 
The type specimens of this species are contained in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. The species is nearer 
I think to Z. surya, Moore, than it is to Z. frabha, as the cosial margin of the forewing on the upperside 
is broadly black as in that species. I cannot distinguish it from Z szrya on the upperside, bit it is much 
paler on the underside, of a different shade of yellow (paler, more gamboge-like), and all the markings more 
macular than in the South Indian form. 
