LOXURINM 217 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Loxura Cassiopeia, Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1884, p. 200 ; id. Rhop. Malayana, p. 282, 

 figs. 88, ,J, 89, ? (1885). Habitat, Perak. 



Genus YASODA. 



Tasoda, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1898, p. 410. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 438 

 (1890). 



Eyes naked. Forewing, vein 12 ends on costa opposite the end of the cell, 

 11 emitted from the middle of the cell, 10 from one-fourth before the end, all three 

 far apart from each other ; discocellulars slightly inwardly oblique, of about equal 

 length, concave ; cell short, broad, less than half the breadth of the wing ; vein 3 from 

 a little before end of the cell, 2 from one-fifth before the end, sub-median interspace 

 broad, sub-median vein straight, costa highly arched, slightly indented at its base, 

 apex acuminate, outer margin slightly concave above its middle, then convex and 

 inwardly oblique (straight in the female), hinder angle rounded, hinder margin straight. 

 Hindwing, vein 8 slightly arched at its base, then straight to the apex of the wing, 

 7 emitted near the end of the cell, discocellulars outwardly oblique, of equal length, 

 concave; vein 3 emitted just before lower end of cell, sub-median and internal veins 

 straight, costa arched at base, then straight to apex, which is rounded, outer margin 

 straight to the base of the tail at the end of vein 2, which is long, curled and broad, 

 the vein running half-way down the tail, the margin then runs straight to the anal 

 angle, inclining a little upwards ; a very small anal lobe, above which the abdominal 

 margin is excavated ; in the male there is an elongated patch of difi'erently formed 

 scales in the middle two-thirds of vein 2 ; body small, short ; palpi very long, porrect, 

 longest in the female. Antennae very short, about one-third the length of the costa 

 of the forewing, with no distinct club. 



Type, Loxura pita, Horsfield. 



TASODA TRIPUNCTATA. 



Plate 745, figs. 2, (f , 2a, ? , 2b, $ (Wet-season Brood), 2c, ,J , 2d, ? , 2e, J (Dry-season Brood). 

 Loxura tripundata, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 26 (1863). Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. 



As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 370. 

 Tasoda tripundata, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iu. p. 439, pi. 29, figs. 233, 234, ? (1890). Elwes, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 641. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 305. 

 Myrina pita, Doubleday and Hewitson (nee Horsfield), Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. pi. 74, fig. 2, $ (1852). 



Wet-season Brood (Figs. 2, ^, 2a, ?, 2b, $). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside deep orange. Forewing with the base narrowly 

 suffused with brown, marginal bands black, commencing narrowly at the costal base, 

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