438 LYCANID&. | YASODA. 
EXPANSE: %,1'43 92,1'5 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : “ MALE. UpPERSIDE, Joth wings bright fulvous, Forewing with a blackish 
pical marginal band, curving from the middle of the costa to the posterior angle. Hindwing 
with avery slender indistinct blackish marginal band ; abdominal margin and anal lobe, and 
tail, yellowish or brownish-fulvous. UNDERSIDE, doth wings yellowish-ochreous, crossed by 
two outer very indistinct narrow lunular bands. FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, doth wings with 
broader marginal bands; basal areas, abdominal margin and tat? more dusky than in the 
male.” UNDERSIDE, doth wings asin the male. ‘‘ Palpi and legs white, speckled with blac yt 
‘* Anintermediate species, nearer to Z. prabha, Moore, than to L. atymnus, Cramer.” 
“ Larva slender, limaciform, anterior segments thickened, head small; green, with two 
dorsal white-striped marks. Feeds on Smilax, PuPA green ; thorax oblique in front, anal 
segments attenuated.” (JZoore, l.c.) 
This species is variable, though perhaps not to the extent shewn by Z. atymnus and 
L. prabha. It occurs commonly throughout Ceylon, 
Genus 165.—YASODA, nov. Doherty, MS. (PLATE XXTX). 
Superficially resembling Zoxura, Horsfield. FOREWING, with the costa highly arched, 
slightly indented at the base, afex acuminate, ouler margin very slightly concave to first median 
nervule and outwardly oblique, then convex and inwardly oblique (straight in the female) to inner 
angle, inner angle rounded, inner margin straight ; costal and subcostal nervures lying far apart 
except at the base ; costal nervure reaching to opposite the apex of the discoidal cell ; bases of 
the first and second subcostal and upper discoidal nervules equidistant ; middle and lower disco- 
cellular nervules of about equal length, concave, slightly inwardly oblique ; discotdal cell short, 
not reaching to the middle of the wing, broad ; median nervules lying close together, second 
median nervule with its origin a little before the lower end of the cell ; swbmedzan interspace 
broad ; submedian nervure straight. HtNDWING, with the costa arched at base, then straight 
to apex ; afex rounded, outer margin straight to base of tail, then at right angles to its former 
course and straight to anal angle ; a very small aval lobe, above which the abdominal margin 
is somewhat shallowly excavated ; 2 long broad curled ¢az/ from the first median nervule, the 
vein running half way down the tail ; costal mervure slightly arched at the base of the wing, 
afterwards straight and reaching the apex of the wing ; first sudcostal nervule given off rather 
near to the apex of the cell ; dzsco-cel/ular nervules of about equal length, concave, outwardly 
oblique ; second median nervule with its origin immediately before the lower end of the cell ; 
submedian and internal nervures straight. MALE with an elongated patch of scales differently 
formed to those on the rest of the wing occupying the middle two-thirds of the first median 
nervule (excluding that portion of the vein which traverses the tail), Boby small, short ; Aa/pz 
very long, porrect, longer in the female than in the male ; an/enn@ very short, about one-third of 
the length of the costa of the forewing, with no distinct club ; eyes smooth. Type, Loxura pita, 
Horsfield. 
“ This genus is in many respects intermediate between Loxura, Horsfield, and Zooxylides, 
de Nicéville. From the former it is easily distinguished by the absence of the fourth subcostal 
nervule, from the latter by having only one tail instead of three. The last joint of the palpi 
which in Zooxylides is rather slender, flattened and tapering (though not so long as in Loxura), 
is in Yasoda shorter (less than one-half of the preceding), broad, flat, and elliptical. Yasoda 
has the sex-mark between the submedian nervure and first median nervule of the forewing. 
Loxura has no sex-mark.’”’ (Doherty, MS.) 
Yasoda is a very remarkable and distinct genus. Superficially it resembles Zoxura, 
Horsfield, in which genus the species now placed in Yasoda have hitherto been included. The 
coloration is much the same in both, the upperside being orange, with a more or less broad 
outer black margin, The body, antennze, palpi, long tail, and small anal lobe to the hindwing 
are also the same in both, but the outline of the wings is very different ; the forewing in Yasoda 
