LOEPA. 25 



Genus LOEPA. 



Loepa, Moore, Lep. E. I. C. ii, p. 399 (1858). 

 Rhodia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 578. 



Type, L. katinka, Westw. 



Range. Japan ; Himalayas ; Assam ; Yunnan ; Java. 

 Shape and neuration as in Satumia. Tarsi thickly clothed with 

 hair. 



25. Loepa katinka, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 25, pi. 12, fig. 2 ; C. ■$ S. 



no. 1554. 

 Loepa miranda, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) ii, p. 424 ; C. fy S. 



no. 1555. 

 Loepa sikkima, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 818 ; C. $ S. no. 1556. 



Bright chrome-yellow. Fore wing with the costa grey, suffused 

 with fuscous ; a subbasal more or less angled pink line ; a large 

 rounded or oval ocellus at end of cell, which is pinkish brown, 



Fig. 12.— Loe-pa katinka, $ . \. 



containing white and black lunulate marks ; a highly waved post- 

 medial dark line ; double submarginal lines, the inner line pinkish 

 and angled below the costa, the outer grey and terminating 

 in a black spot between veins 7 and 8, above which is a pinkish 

 patch on the costa, edged exteriorly with white and pink ; a series 

 of almost marginal pale lunules. Hind wing differs from the fore 

 wing in the first line being further from the base, narrow, and 

 dark ; the subcostal patch and spot absent. Underside with a 

 pink and white apical patch to hind wing developed in sikkima and 

 the Javan form. 



The form miranda is large and pale, with the ocellus small, 

 round, and almost blind ; katinka is a similar but small form ; 

 while sikkima is small and dark, much suffused with fuscous 



