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correct idea of the form. It was therefore desirable to represent both surfaces with more accuracy, an 

 object I trust our figure has sufficiently attained. This insect is by no means unfrequent in Java. Our 

 collection contains at least eighteen specimens. The female, according to my observation, can be dis- 

 tinguished only by the structure of the anterior tarsi ; in colour and painting it differs not perceptibly from 

 the male. 



50. Loxura Pita. Alos supra fceminsef idvce, colore saturato in aurantium vergente, anticce limbis 

 exteriore et apicali intus arcuatim circumscriptis, posticce limbo apicali fascidque obliqud ab 

 angulo apicali anteriore ad medium marginis interioris tendente ex maculis quatuor subcontiguis 

 efformata saturate^ fuscis ; margine interiore abdomen excipiente cano, appendicido anali albo 

 notato : subtiis ochraceo-flavicantes, colore pulverulento opaco cequaliter paginam totam obtegente ; 

 area mediand singularum arcubus minutis obsoletissimis fuscis notatd, in anticis sparsis in pos- 

 iicis seriebus duabus parallelis ordinatis, posterior e in regione anali saturatiore intus creperd 

 ■ albd limbatd ; tcenid denique marginali strigd alba intus auctd, punctoque ocellari in appendicido 

 ., . , , anali lunula albd stipatd fuscis. (Exp. alar. 15 lin.) 



Wings above, in the female* fulvous, the tint being saturated and inclining to orange; anterior, 

 with the exterior and apical borders blackish brown, meeting the orange portion in a regularly 

 arched boundary line, extending from the middle of the anterior costa to the inner apical angle; 

 posterior, with the apical border and an oblique band composed of four contiguous spots extend- 

 ing from the outer apical angle to the middle of the inner margin, of the same colour; anal 

 termination of the apical border diffuse and evanescent internally and marked with a few obso- 

 lete white dashes ; inner margin excavated to receive the abdomen, gray : underneath ochraceous- 

 yellow, uniformly covered with an opaque pulverulent tint ; medial portion of the surface of both 

 pairs marked with numerous very minute and obsolete brown arcs, which in the hinder pair are 

 arranged in two parallel interrupted strigas, the posterior one increasing in distinctness towards 

 the inner margin, where it bears externally a lunular white cloud; extreme anal margin bearing 

 ; an irregularly diffuse brown stripe terminating in a distinct ocellate spot on the anal appendage; 

 the latter surrounded internally by a white lunule froni which an obscure striga passes over 

 theextreme anal region. Tails ferruginous brown, tipt with white : body brown above, pale 

 i yellowish underneath-: legs whitish, marked with numerous well defined black bands, which 

 are more crowded on the tarsi. 



Loxura Pita closely agrees in a generic point of view with L. Atymnus : the antennae have the same 

 strictness and the palpi the same proportional length : the character of the tail is likewise the same. As a 

 species Loxura Pita is distinguished above by a deeper orange tint, by a broader border and by a transverse 

 macular band on the hinder pair : underneath the ocellate spot and the marks on the anal region are more 

 pronounced and the legs are distinctly marked with black bands ; the tail also is proportionally lengthened 

 and the wings are rather more expanded in breadth. 



Our Museum contains a single female specimen in perfect condition. 



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