LYCENID#, ZINASPA. 4st 
narrow and linear slightly darker fascia outwardly margined with greyish, situated between 
the ends of the discoidal cells and the outer margins, angulated and inwardly margined 
with fuscous from the second median nervule of the hindwing to the abdominal margin, 
where it is duplex. Aindwing with three marginal spots near the anal angle, the first 
and third black, the medial one composed of greenish scales; extreme outer margin nar- 
rowly greyish. Cz/éa pale brownish.” 
© T have not seen the male of this species. [The female] is, however, closely allied in 
colour to the male of D. domiztia, Hewitson, wanting, however, the black spots on the 
underside of the forewing, which renders it easily distinguishable.” (Dz¢stant, 1. c. ) 
**The yellow colour of the underside of the female, which is not uncommon in the 
Chittagong Hill Tracts, varies greatly in different specimens. I suspect that the male will be 
found to be of the usual dull rufous hue of below, characteristic of the group, and will 
perhaps be difficult to distinguish from some well-known species.” (Doherty, 1. c.) 
I have not seen this species, but it may be known at once from the other species of 
the genus occurring within Indian limits by the yellow colour of the ground on the underside, I 
do not know why Mr. Distant gives the Deudorix (Rapala) xenophon of Hewitson as a synonym 
of this species, unless there are specimens of D. darthema in the Hewitson collection which 
Hewitson has identified as xemopfhon. As far as the description goes the only differences I can 
detect between 13. darthema and females of &. xenofhon are that in the latter the anal 
lobe of the hindwing on the upperside has more than the larger half ochreous-ferruginous, 
on the underside the short disco-cellular lines on both wings are not mentioned in D. barthema, 
and that in 2. xenophon the outer black spot on the hindwing in the first median interspace 
is crowned with orange. D. éarthema is still nearer to Rapala suffusa, Moore, the latter 
possessing all the characters distinguishing 2. xenophon from D. barthema, except that the 
black spot on the margin in the first median interspace on the underside of the hindwing 
is crowned with orange in only one specimen in my possession. It probably possesses in 
the male secondary sexual characters, and does not therefore belong to the genus Deudorix at 
all. It is a most puzzling species, and not having seen specimens ora figure Ican make 
nothing out of it. 
Genus 1'70.—ZINASPA, nov. (PLATE XXIX). 
Allied to Rapala, Moore, from which it differs in both sexes in the a#tenne being shorter, 
the falfi nearly twice as long and stouter (much longer in the female than in the male), and 
the MALE lacking the tuft of hair on the inner margin of the forewing, and the glandular patch 
below the costa of the hindwing present in that genus. The eves are naked. 
As far as I can ascertain without destroying a specimen, the neuration of the two Indian 
species I include in the genus does not differ from that of Rafa/a. The markings of the underside, 
however, are so entirely different from those of any species of AXafa/a, that from them alone 
one would come to the conclusion that Z. ¢odara, Moore, and Z. distorta, de Nicéville, must 
be generically distinct from Rapala, They at once remind one, however, of those obtaining 
in the genus Surendra, Moore, though they differ a good deal in detail. In Zinaspa the 
forewing on the underside has no markings towards the base whatever, in Swrendva there 
is a bar across the middle of the cell, a double line closing the cell, and several short 
streaks on the costa. On the hindwing there are usually no basal markings in Zivaspa, and 
the discal markings are more regular and nearer the margin, There is also a small 
black spot crowned with orange in the first median interspace never found in Surendra. 
Zinaspa is perhaps nearer even to Deudorix, Hewitson, than it is to Rapala, but the male may 
at once be known by the costa of the forewing being arched instead of straight, and the 
inner margin much longer, thus giving a more square appearance to that wing. 
Two species only are known, one occurs in Sikkim, Assam, and Burma, the other in the 
Nilgiri Hills of South India. The females appear to be very much commoner than the males, 
as obtains also in the genus Suvendra, 
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