LOXUEIN^. 21 f) 



Loxura atymnus = surya, Davidson, Bell and Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1896, p. 390, larv.a 

 and pupa. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside bright fulvous, the colour darker than in L. atymnus. 

 Fiirewing with the basal third suffused with brown, the costal black band broad, limited 

 by the sub-costal vein, the apical and outer marginal band broader than in atymnus. 

 Ilindwing with costal, basal and abdominal marginal spaces broadly suffused with 

 brown, only the outer half of the wing bright fulvous and free from the suffusion, 

 which extends hindwards to the anal lobe, but the tail is fulvous, with brown cilia and 

 white tip, and the veins are finely black. Underside coloured brighter than in atymnus, 

 the only markings traceable being the discal bands, which are similarly disposed but 

 much narrower than they are in atymnus, the band on the forewing not ending in the 

 two black marks of that species, and the tail is shorter ; the abdominal fold grey. 



Female. Upperside. Forewing paler than in the male, the marginal band.s 

 broader, the basal suffusion more extended, and continued rather broadly along the hinder 

 margin, leaving but a small portion of the wing fulvous. Hindwing entirely covered 

 with brown suffusion, witli the ground fulvous colour showing through here and there. 

 Underside duller in colour than the male, markings similar. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1^ to lyo- inches. 



Larva feeds on young shoots of Dioscorea, is of the woodlouse shape, the back 

 being raised and rounded ; the head is concealed, and there is a small flat plate over 

 the segment next the head, and another on the anal segment. The colour is dull green, 

 suffused with pink (the colour of the young leaves on which it feeds) on both sides. 



Ptjpa, fastened along a leaf by tail and band, is blunt, lengthened, and devoid 

 of excrescences ; it is of a pale-green colour, with the edge of the wing-cases clearly 

 marked with pinkish-purple. (Davidson, Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — Southern India. 



Distribution. — The type came from Kanara ; we have it from Karwar in Kanara, 

 Trevandrum and the Nilgiris ; it seems to be confined, as de Niceville says, to the 

 heavy damp forests of Southern India. We give figures of Davidson's original 

 drawings of the larva and pupa which were not published in the Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Journal of 1896 ; de Niceville records it also from Travancore. 



LOXURA PRABHA. 



Plate 744, figs. 3, (J , 3a, J , 3b, $ . 



Myrina prabha, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 589, pi. 58, fig. 5, ? . 

 Loxura jprabha, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 437 (1890). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside duller in colour than either atymnus or surya, the 

 brown suffusion paler. Forewing with the basal suffusion less than in surya, costal 



