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androconi- Y. androconifera Fruhst. (157 d). /Upper surface more miniate or reddish-orange, forewing with 
/em. a ( { ar p androconium above the hind-margin. All the wings are bioadly margined with blackish-brown; the 
tails of the hindwing are scarcely half the length of those in the other Yasoda and quite thin. Central Tonkin. 
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79. Genus: Loxura Hsf. 
All the forms of this genus are, like the preceding ones, in both sexes above red, margined with black, 
with a similar long ensiform tail of the hindwing on the posterior median branch; under surface yellow. The 
differences from Yasoda in the neuration are stated at that genus. 
atymnus. L. atyttlssus Or. (= alymnus Drc.)) The numerous forms that have been distinguished of this very 
widely distributed and mostly rather common species, mostly differ in the shape of the marginal band of 
arcuata. the forewing. From the Ceylon-form arcpata Mr. (157 c), typical specimens from the Coromandel Coast of 
India deviate by the marginal black in^tne forewing along the costa being continued yet in a line gradually 
getting finer towards the base almost to the base of the wing, and by the hindwing, which in arcuata is red 
surya. as far as the margin, showing in atymnus a dark margin almost 2 mm broad. — ab. surya Mr., from Oanara 
(thus described from the range of atymnus) refers to more miniate specimens, not being rare among the speci¬ 
mens of the rainy season; Fruhstorfer takes this name only to be a synonym of typical atymnus from India. 
:prabha. — prablia Mr., from the Andamans, has a dark costal margin and mostly also distal margin of the hindwing. 
Moreover, the original description does not mention any differences from the other forms, but it fits most of 
continenta- the forms of atymnus. Fruhstorfer also mentions the Nicobars as the doubtful patria of •prabha. — con- 
hs ' tinentalis Fruhst. are specimens from the Himalayan countries as far as Siam and Burma, in which the marginal 
band of the forewing is only present in the apical portion, but ends before the anal angle. Hindwing only in 
the $ with a linear black distal margin; ground-colour mostly lighter red. This description refers to a form 
mahara. of the rainy season of which there is also a dry season form: mahara Fruhst. — On the contrary, speci¬ 
mens from Malacca and Borneo exhibit a darker red of the upper surface and a very broad dark distal band: 
fuconius. = fuconius Fruhst. — In xystus Fruhst. (157 c), from Burma, beside the broad dark marginal band also the 
xystus. hind-margin, the costal margin, and the basal portion of the hindwing are broadly powdered with dark brown. 
leminius. — In leminius Fruhst. (157 c) the distal margin of the forewing is broad black, but the hindwing almost without 
deinostra- any dark margin; the latter is quite dull and 1 mm broad at most. Sumatra. — deinostratus Fruhst., from West 
. Java, is large, of a beautiful reddish-yellow colour, and without a dark margin of the hindwing. — matienus 
Fruhst., from East Java, however, are dark orange-red, all the wings with a broad dark distal margin, and the 
basal and marginal parts of the hindwing above are densely powdered wdtli a blackish grey; beneath the longi- 
emona. tudinal bands are distinct. — ab. emona Fruhst. is a third form from Java with a watery dark yellow ground- 
manilius. colour, the under surface without any marking. — manilius Fruhst., from Lombok, has a more intensely 
orange-red ground-colour, the hindwings more distinctly powdered with black. It also occurs in Sumbawa. 
anglerius. — anglerius Fruhst. has broad black veins through the hindwing, terminating in marginal spots replacing 
yilma. a marginal band (in other forms). — yilma Fruhst. (157 c), finally, from the Philippines, already forms 
• a certain transition to the following species; the apex is in this large form less pointed, the total colouring 
on both sides darker, the marginal band of the forewing not distinctly defined, the hindwing towards the margin 
somewhat darkened, but without a real marginal band. — Larva on the young shoots of Dioscorea, with a 
woodlouse-shaped convex dorsum; dark green, laterally with a pink hue. Pupa somewhat elongate, except 
at the cremaster held by a belt, dark green, the wing-cases marked with pink. — The very conspicuous imagines 
rest on the roadsides with their wings closed on the twigs of bushes, where they are easily captured. On being 
chased up they rise with a rather slow, somewhat flapping flight, striving for the tops of the trees in spirals, 
at first in a most peculiar, somewhat erect attitude, with their heads turned upward, the tails towards the 
ground; on being cautiously approached, however, they mostly soon return again. They are met singly, but 
almost everywhere, where they occur, they are rather common. 
cassiopeia. L. cassiopeia Dist. is said to fly with atymnus at the same places, and can therefore not be a represen¬ 
tative of it. The original description, however, applies very rvell to certain forms of atymnus. On the whole, 
cassiopeia is chiefly distinguished by the invariably longer tails not being powdered with black; even not in 
arnatiea. those forms which, like the Borneo-form amafica Fruhst. (157 c as anatica ), exhibit the hindwings all over 
suffused with brown. In typical cassiopeia the hindwing is light reddish-ochreous, only at the margin very 
numana. feebly powdered with dark. — numana Fruhst., from Sumatra, has also the forewing in the disc without distinct 
luscicauda - powdering, the tails are half yellow and the anal area of the hindwing above is lighter. — fuscicaudata Fruhst., 
,a - from Nias, is smaller than the preceding ones, about of the size of enormous atymnus, but it has the light 
yellow r , not dark-shaded tails, and in distinction from all the other forms of cassiopeia, it has a lighter yellow 
batunensis. under surface. — Also from the Batu Islands a form of cassiopeia has been described: - batunensis Fruhst. 
