LYCANID A. YASODA. 439 
has two subcostal nervules instead of three, and the male has a very remarkable and unique 
© sexual mark” on the hindwing not found in Zoxura. Yasoda, as far as I am aware, occurs 
only in North-East India (Sikkim and Assam), the Malay Peninsula, the Nicobars, and in 
Java, and is represented by two closely-allied species only. 
981. Yasoda tripunctata, Hewitson. (PLATE XXIX, Fics. 233 and 234 2). 
Loxura tripunctata, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., p. 26, n. 4 (1863) ; Wyrina pita, Doubleday and Hewitson 
(wec Horsfield), Gen. Diurn. Lep.. vol. ii, pl. lxxiv, fig. 2, male (1852); Loxura pita (part), Westwood, 1. c.» 
P. 475, 0. 2. 
HaBiTaT: Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Perak. 
EXpaNSE: ¢,1°3 to 15; 2, 1'4 to 1°5 inches. 
DESCRIPTION : MALE, UPPERSIDR, doth wings usually deep orange, sometimes fulvous, 
Forewing with the costa usually narrowly but increasingly black, the apex broadly and the 
outer margin somewhat broadly black, the inner edge of this black portion evenly rounded, 
the disco-cellular nervules usually marked with a black line, three somewhat rounded black 
spots on the disc divided by the first and second median nervules, in some specimens from 
Sikkim there are only two of these black spots, divided by the second median nervule ; the 
base of the wing dusky. Azdwzéng with the costal and outer margins usually somewhat broadly 
black, the abdominal margin usually more broadly black, the disco-cellular nervujes marked 
with a black line, a broad discal irregular band at right angles to the body across the disc of 
the wing joining the black abdominal and outer margins, sometimes much narrower and not 
reaching the narrow outer black margin. UNDERSIDE, doth wings yellow, shaded with 
brownish in the anal region of the hindwing. orezwznzg with two subbasal series of black- 
outlined spots, three discal series of similar spots but filled in with pale brown, placed in 
echelon, the upper series consisting of two spots near the costa, the middle series below of three 
spots, the lower series of four spots. Aizdwing with subbasal spots as in the forewing, 
a discal catenulated band filled in with pale brown, two indistinct marginal series of connected 
lunules, some whitish black-outlined marks above the anal lobe. Zaiz/ throughout blackish» 
tipped with white. FEMALE marked similarly to the male, but all the markings usually broader. 
The male can at once be distinguished on the upperside by the hindwing being longitu- 
dinally folded in the neighbourhood of the “ sexual mark,”’ the latter marked inwardly by a 
rather conspicuous narrow long orange line. _Y. ¢ripunctata is a rare species ; it occurs in Sik- 
kim in April and October. Mr. Wood-Mason obtained four specimens in Cachar in May and 
July, and Mr. J. L. Sherwill has sent me a single female from Jorehat, Assam, taken in June. 
Professor Westwood records it from Sylhet. Both sexes show much diversity in the promi- 
nence or otherwise of the black markings on the upperside. Judging from analogy I think it 
will be found that the lighter-coloured specimens will be observed on the wing in the dry-season. 
This latter form is the one figured by Hewitson in the “ Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera.” 
On one side he has given two black spots on the forewing in the submedian interspace ; this is 
either an error, or an individual peculiarity of the example figured. 
Figure 233 shews both sides of a female example from Sikkim, figure 234 shews both 
sides of a female specimen from Jorehat in Assam, both in my collection. These figures 
exhibit to some extent the variability in the extent of the black markings on the upperside which 
obtains in this species. 
I append a description of the only other known species in the genus, VY. Azta, Horsfield.* 
* Yasoda pita, Horsfield. Loxuva pita, Horefield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C., p. 122, n. 50 (1829). Hapirat: 
Java. Expanss : Aemale, t'25 inches. DEscripTION : ‘* FEMALE. Uprersivr, doth wings fulvous, the tint being 
saturated and inclining to orange. Forewing with the exterior and apical borders blackish brown, meeting the 
orange portion in a regularly arched boundary line, extending from the middle of the anterior costa to the 
inner apical angle. //indwing with the apical border and an oblique band composed of four contiguous spots 
extending from the outer apical angle to the middle of the inner margin, of the same colour ; anal termination 
of the apical border diffuse and evanescent internally and marked with a few obsolete. white dashes; inner 
margin excavated to receive the abdomen, gray. Unpsrsipe, doth wings ochraceous-yellow, uniformly 
