BEUDORIXINM 75 



inwardly edged with white^ and two more prominent discal lines, the inner one 

 outwardly edged, the outer one (more regular and much dentated) inwardly edged with 

 white ; faint indications of a sub-marginal series, containing a rather large black spot 

 capped with orange in interspace 2 ; from this to the anal lobe are scattered some 

 white scales, and in the lobe is a large black spot, with some thicker white scaling 

 capping it. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing like the male, but the purple colour on its inner 

 portions is usually much paler and duller. Hindwing varying much in different 

 examples, sometimes it is nearly all blackish, sometimes the dull purplish colour is 

 confined to the upper basal portions, and sometimes it runs into the lower half of the 

 cell. Underside similar to the male, but generally somewhat paler, the markings more 

 prominent. Antennae black ; palpi black above, white beneath ; head and body black 

 above, brown beneath. 



Expanse of wings, $ \^, $ ly^^- inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Nilgiris, Ceylon. 



Distribution. — Watson records it from the Chin Hills and Chin Lushai, Elwes 

 from Pegu, Manders from Ceylon, Hampson from the Nilgiris, de Niceville from 

 Rangoon ; we have it from the Khasia Hills, from Sikkim and from the Nilgiris ; it is 

 never common ; it is impossible to separate distorta from todara. 



CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Zinaspa zana, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, vol. xii. p. 149, pi. A, A, 'fig. 28, J. 

 Habitat, W. China. 



Genus DRINA. 

 Brim, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 442 (1890). 



Eyes naked. Forewing, vein 12 ends on the costa some distance beyond the end 

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

 9 from the middle of 7, 6 from immediately before the upper end of the cell, 

 discoeellulars upright, slightly concave, the lower a little the longer, vein 3 from before 

 the lower end of the cell, sub-median nervure straight ; costa evenly arched, apex 

 acute, outer margin somewhat concave, hinder margin slightly sinuous. Hindwinq 

 with vein 8 evenly curved, 7 emitted some distance before upper end of cell, upper 

 discocellular straight, outwardly oblique, lower concave, upright, a little longer than 

 the upper, vein 3 emitted a little before the lower end of cell, sub-median nervure 

 straight, internal nervure long, recurved ; costa arched, apex rounded, outer maro-in 

 nearly straight to vein 2, then at right angles to the anal angle, abdominal margin 

 recurved, anal lobe very small, tail at the end of vein 2 rather broad, not filamentous. 



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