410 W. DoLorty — Oertain Lyovemdmfrom Loicer Tenasserim. [No. 4, 



its systematic value, and varies to a remarkable extent in forms nnicb 

 alike in general structure and appearance. So it is with great liesitation 

 that I propose four sections based partly on it. Typically thoy are all 

 four distinct enough, but seem to be connected by certain low forms of 

 Arhopala, underlying them as it were, as if indicating the original an- 

 cestors from which they all sprang. 



Egg large, tubercular, indentations 



obscurely hexagonal,.., ... Aphmits group. 



Egg similar, not tubercular, ... Loxura group. 



Egg small, tubercular, indentations 



sharply cut, ustially trigonal, ... TJiecla groiipi 

 Egg small, spiny, indentations sharply 



cut, tetragonal, ... ... Arhopala group. 



The Aj}hnu'tis group has the egg convex above (as in all the sub- 

 family), yellowish, large and coarse, overlaid with a thick, rough, 

 vesicular, white or yellowish crust, covered with large blunt whelks or 

 knobs (often but little elevated) and indented with obscure hexagonal 

 spaces. This type of egg' reaches its extreme form in Ncoclieritra, in 

 which the indentations are fewest and coarsest, while in Ohrysophanus 

 they are numerous, and in Citretis numerous and cut into hexagons with 

 some distinctness. In Amhlypodia, as now limited, the egg is much the 

 same as in NeocJieritra, and the genus had better be put here. It re- 

 sembles the Arhopalas in some things, but its venation shows it to bo 

 a very isolated form. The male has a fifth subcostal branch wanting 

 in the female, and the middle discocellular, like the iij^ijor, is oblique, 

 and greatly thickened, seeming to be the basal part of the lower radial 

 vein. In Iraota, another genus hard to place, there is no middle dis- 

 cocellular, the radials having a common origin. Most genera of the 

 Aphnwiis group have elongate wings, with the outer margin of the fore- 

 wing more or less oblique, and the costal and subcostal veins some- 

 what crowded together, the cell being near the costa (remote in Arho- 

 pala), which is but little rounded. The hind wing has two tails in most 

 of the genera. 



The Loxura group is obviously an offshoot of the Aplinmis group. 

 The egg is large and white, without tubercles. In the typical genera, 

 Loxura, Yasada* and Eooxylidesf, it has a cornice round the flat, table- 



* Tasoda, gon. nov. Differs from Eooxylides iu having bnt oiiG tail ; from Lo.eum 

 in having only three subcostal veins (tour in Loxura) in the forewing, and a largo 

 black Bex-mark on the hindwiug of the male above, on the lower median vein. 



+ I described this genns as MarshalHa, naming it after Colonel G, F. L. 

 Marshall, but the name turned ont to be pre- occupied. As the name fMa!oiB!//i'des, 

 TvMoh I proposed instead of it, secma to have reached Mr. do Nioeville too late to 



