74 LEPWOPTEBA INDICA. 



Genus ZINASPA. 

 Zinaspa, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 451 (1890). 



Eyes naked. Forewing, vein 12 well separated from the costa, bends upwards at 

 two-thirds its length and ends on costa before the end of the cell, 11 emitted from 

 about centre of cell, the base of 10 equidistant between the base of 11 and the end of 

 the cell, 9 very short out of 7 near its end, 6 from close to upper end of cell, 

 discocellulars slight, upright, 5 from upper end of lower discocellular, 3 from close to the 

 lower end of cell, 2 from one-third before the end, wing broad, costa highly arched at 

 base, then slightly arched to apex, apex sub-acute, angular, outer margin convex, 

 hinder angle angular, hinder margin slightly sinuous. liindwing with veins 6 and 3 

 from the upper and lower ends of the cell, 5 slight from the centre of discocellulars, 

 discocellulars very slight, hardly visible, both appear to be outwardly oblique. Costa 

 highly arched at base, apex and outer margin evenly rounded, a thin tail at the end of 

 vein 2, a fairly well formed anal lobe, a large thick patch of long hairs covering the 

 abdominal area of the wing ; palpi long, nearly naked, somewhat upturned. Antennse 

 stout, club long, very gradually thicker than the rest of the antennae ; body stout, 

 legs short. 



Type, Surendra todara, Moore. 



ZINASPA TODARA. 



Plate 720, figs. 2, <? , 2a, ? , 2b, $ . 



Surendra todara, Moore, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 530. 



Zinaspa todara, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 452 (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, 



p. 306. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1897, p. 667. 

 EajjaJa distorta, de Niceville, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 461, pi. 40, fig. 6, $ . Hampson, Journ. As. 



Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 359. 

 Zinasjia distorta, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 452, pi. 29, fig. 239, ^ (1890). Manders, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 530. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 50, and 1897, 



p. 667. Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc 1892, p. 642. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing black, deep shining purple on the inner 

 portions, including the cell, and the basal two-thirds of the inner area above the 

 internal vein. Hindrcwg with the purple area more extended, the costa and apex 

 broadly and the outer margin narrowly black, the abdominal marginal space paler. 

 Cilia black inwardly, white outwardly ; tail black, tipped with white. Underside brown 

 with a slight pinkish tint. Foreiving with a fine discal brown line, outwardly edged 

 with white, formed of more or less connected lunules, the first three from the costa in 

 a gentle outward curve, the next two, one below the other, then the line is dislocated, 

 the last portion being well inwards, a submarginal series of somewhat square brown spots 

 edged on both sides with white. liindwing with an indistinct sub-basal distorted line 



