440 LYC/AENID. YASODA. 
Mr. W. Doherty has given me notes of a species of Yasuda which he took on Larut Hill, 
Perak, Malay Peninsula, between 3,000 and 5,000 feet. The male agrees with Y. pita, Hors- 
field, in having no black spots on the upperside of the forewing on the disc, but the female has 
© a small dusky spot usually present on the disc, on both sides of the first median nervule.”’ 
(Doherty, MS.) These specimens would appear to be about exactly intermediate between 
Y. tripunctata and Y. pita, the male resembling the latter, the female the former. He describes 
the organs of generation in the males of these specimens as follows :—“ PREHENSORES, 
Uncus seen from above broad, with parallel sides, bifid, incised by two entering straight lines 
meeting at a right angle, the two apices rather acute. Seen from the side it is narrow, 
rounded and projecting at its lower angle. Branches long, bent first forwards (towards the 
body), then inwards (towards each other), then backwards, the end straight, slender and 
acute, Clasfs tapering slightly, the tip enlarged, truncate and dentate on‘ its upperside, 
Intromittent organ enlarged and obliquely truncate at the tip, a short corneous spine diverging 
from its lower side near the end.’’ This is the first time any species of this genus has been 
recorded from the Malay Peninsula. Mr. Doherty also informs me that ‘on the island of 
Little Nicobar I captured asingle female butterfly apparently of this genus, and not uncom- 
mon there.” He took V. ¢vifunctata also at Mergui, Burma, in the cold weather. 
The tenth division that I have made in the Indian Zycenide I have called the Dezwdorix 
group. It contains ten Indian and one Malay Peninsula genus. It shares with the Loxura 
group which precedes it the feature of possessing only one tail to the hindwing variable in 
length. The hindwing is elongated and produced posteriorly, with a well-formed anal lobe 
in all the genera except Drina, mihi. The forewing in all the genera (except the genus 
Sithon, Hiibner, which has two only, and has not so far been recorded from the strict Indian 
limits of this work), has three subcostal nervules in both sexes. The group may be divided 
into two subgroups, the first without, the second with secondary sexual characters in the 
males on the wings. . 
The first genus, Driza, mihi, contain three species, one occurs in Burma and the Malay 
Peninsula, the second in the Malay Peninsula only, and the third appears to be confined to the 
Philippine Islands. In this genus the anal lobe to the hindwing is very small, the tail is 
rather broad, not filamentous, about a quarter of an inch in length; allthe species are silvery- 
white on the underside, as in the genus Czretis, Hiibner ; both sexes of one species are black 
on the upperside, with a double submarginal series of white spots to the hindwing, the 
males of the other two species are more or less blue above. 
The next two genera, ZLehera, Moore, and Araotes, Doherty, MS., have the anal lobe to 
the hindwing large, the tail filiform in the male, much longer and highly ciliated or “ fluffy ” 
in the female. At present but few species are known to occur in both genera. The females 
of all of them are fuscous on the upperside of both wings, with a large white patch in the anal 
region in the hindwing. The first genus, Ze4era, Moore, contains two species only, the male 
of one of them is rich dark purplish-blue on the upperside, on the underside one species is verdi- 
gris-green, the other clear-yellow. In the forewing the first subcostal nervule is quite free from 
the costal nervure, in Avaotes they touch for a short distance. Zeheva occurs in the Eastern 
Himalayas, Assam, Burma, and China. The genus Araofes contains at present but a single 
covered with an opaque pulverulent tint ; medial portion of the surface marked with numerous very minute 
and obsolete brown arcs, which in the Aindwing are arranged in two parallel interrupted strige, the 
posterior one increasing in distinctness towards the inner margin, where it bears externally a lunular white 
cloud ; extreme anal margin bearing an irregularly diffuse brown stripe terminating in a distinct ocellate spot 
on the anal appendage ; the latter surrounded internally by a white lunule from which an obscure striga 
passes over the extreme anal region. 7az/ferruginous-brown, tipped with white. Body brown above, pale 
yellowish underneath. Legs whitish, marked with numerous well-defined black bands, which are more crowded 
on the tarsi.’’ (//orsfield, |. c.) 
The female of this species may be known from both sexes of V. ¢vipunctata, Hewitson, by the absence 
of all black markings on the disc of the forewing on the upperside. ‘The male is said by Hewitson to be 
without spots on either wing on the upperside. 
