214 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Loxura. afymnus, Horsfield, I.e. p. 121 (1829). Boisduval, Sp. Gen. pi. 7, fig. 3 (1836). Horsfield 

 and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. p. 51 (1857). de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, 

 p. 49. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 281, pi. 24, fig. 7, ^ (1885). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Bengal, 1886, p. 27. Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 370. 

 Elwes and de Niceville, id. p. 429. Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 278, pi. 95, ,J (1888). Hampson, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 360. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 436, pi. 29, fig. 232, 

 (5 (1890). Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 527. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1890, p. 386. Betham, id. 1891, p. 182. Watson, id. p. 50, and 1897, p. 667. Elwes, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 641. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 305. Mackinnon and de Niceville, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 388. Aitken and Comber, id. vol. xv. 1903, p. 49. 



Imago. — Male. Uppersicle briglit fulvous. Forewing with the apical margin from 

 the middle of the costa increasingly black, and continued down the outer margin, 

 gradually decreasing in width, the inner margin of the black band being in an almost 

 continuous curve. Hindwing with a very narrow, pale ochreous-brown band on the 

 outer margin, some suffusion of this colour being at the base of both wings and 

 continued down the hindwing (the abdominal fold being similarly coloured) and to the 

 end of the tail. Underside dark ochreous-yellow, markings pale blackish. Forewing 

 with two conjoined ring-spots across the middle of the cell, and two similar spots 

 across the end, both somewhat indistinct, the latter with, sometimes, an indistinct spot 

 alcove it, near the costa, a discal, nearly straight band of conjoined ring-spots, the 

 middle one double, the series ending in two black marks in the interno-median 

 interspace, a very indistinct series of sub-marginal lunules. Hindwing with two 

 sub-basal ring-spots, two in the cell and two at the end, all very indistinct ; a discal 

 band, slightly inwardly curved, composed as in the forewing and an indistinct sub- 

 marginal series of lunules, some small brown suffusion at the anal angle and the tail 

 brown edged. Antennae black, with white dots beneath, club with an orange tip ; head 

 and body brown above, grey beneath. 



Female. Upperside somewhat paler than in the male, the marginal bands a little 

 lu'oader, the underside similar. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1^ to IfV inches. 



H.4BITAT. — India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, and Archipelago. 



Distribution. — Common throughout India and Burma, except the higher 

 Himalayas and the desert tracts ; is in the B. M. from Annam, but does not seem to 

 extend into China or Ceylon. We give Grote's coloured figures of the larva and pupa, 

 found amongst Dr. Moore's notes. 



LOXURA SURYA. 



Plate 744, figs. 2, $ , 2a, ? , 2b, $, 2c, larva and pupa. 



Loxura stirya, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 52, pi. la, fig. 13, ^ (1857). Hampson, Journ. As. 

 Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 360. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 436 (1890). 



