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SALASSA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
Icatinka. L. katinka Ww. (53 a). This species is very similar to the Chinese damartis (Vol.- II, pi. 32 cl), but the 
forewings are more tapering, the apex more projecting, the colouring brighter, more honey-coloured yellow, 
the markings more intense, particularly in the apex of the forewing, the central eyespots are larger. As to 
further differences cf. Vol. II, p. 214. — Moreover, it is probably only the southern representative of damartis. 
Widely distributed over Northern India and Southern China, and very common; to the north as far as Central 
and West China, to the range of damartis, thus extending across the southern frontier of the palaearctic region. 
miranda. — miranda Mr. exhibits a colouring between katinka and damartis, but it is larger; the central spots of the 
wings are larger than in damartis, but those in the hindwing are often more oblong and flatter than in katinka. 
Apex of forewing more intensely spotted than in damartis, and in the forewing there are two not three black 
sikkima. transverse notched lines. — sikkima Mr. is smaller than katinka, the yellow colour of the wings is intensely 
covered with brownish. All the forms occur together, sometimes one being more common than the other. —• 
The larva with 6 rows of small red tubercles exhibiting small thorns; ground-colour brown, shaded with dark.. 
The cones are purple red, below them sulphur-coloured lateral spots; on Cissus and Leea, probably also on vine; 
it pupates in a blue-green or brownish cocoon tapering on both ends. 
megacore. L. megacore Jord. on an average is larger than katinka (53 a), of a brighter yellow, the subbasal line 
of the forewing above black, rarely partly red, proximad not bordered with red, or the red is considerably 
reduced. The black ring on the inside of the eyespot is thicker on the proximal side than in katinka from 
Northern India; apex above and beneath somewhat less red. Subbasal and postdiscal lines of hindwing above 
at the anal margin not red. From the Padang Bowenlands in Sumatra. 
neu-ara L. newara Mr. is considerably larger than katinka (53 a), recognizable by its being intensely strewn 
with greyish brown and pink scales, and in the centre of the inner margin and in the discal area the yellow 
ground-colour is purer. Before the centre of the fore wing a grey and brown line being angled on the median 
vein; at the cell-end a triangular, large vitreous spot; behind the centre a feebly curved oblique line. Before 
the apex a white ensiform spot being above bordered with black, below bordered with red; from this spot the 
undulating submarginal line proceeds. At the margin itself an olive band. Nepal, Sikkim; already inclined 
to the genus Rhodinia. 
anthera. L. anthera -Jord. is much larger than the preceding ones, very similar to the Chinese oberthuri (Vol. II, 
pi. 32 d). The eyespots of all the wings are likewise indented on the outside, and the central crescent is above 
very convex; beneath there is only a central crescent to be seen. The dents of the zigzag lines traversing the 
disc are flatter, not so long, however the distal dentate line of the forewing, which in oberthuri only extends from 
the inner margin to the middle radial, is here continued to the costa. Indo-China: Assam, Tonkin. 
7. Genus; ftalassa Mr. 
This genus likewise extends beyond the southern frontier of the palaearctic region to the Indo-Australian 
region and has been dealt with at large in Vol. II (p. 214). Of the 7 forms known 4 are confined to the Indian 
region. In most of the species the hindwing exhibits a large, conspicuously coloured eyespot which is absent 
in the forewing, so that the genus is parallelled to a certain degree by the African Bunaea and the American 
Automeris. Moreover it is also very similar to the Rhodinia. 
lota. S. lola Ww. (56 A c). Extremely similar to thespis Leech which it represents in the Himalayan district 
(Sylhet), where the Chinese thespis seems to be absent. The chief difference of these two species consists in the 
feeble interior transverse line of thespis being very distinct dark in lola and towards the base edged with white. 
I do not find in lola the small white spots at the distal transverse stripe being so very common in thespis, but 
this transverse stripe is composed of regular dark crescents. Moreover, the dark undulate line traversing the 
marginal area extends in thespis much nearer to the margin, in lola nearer to the distal transverse stripe. — 
megastica. megastica Swh. is an intermediary form between lola and thespis ; the interior transverse stripe is said to be 
nearer to the base and more curved, the convexity showing towards the margin. In the $ the hyaline spots are 
larger and the brown bands darker. Cherra-Punji. The cocoon of lola is spun together out of small pieces 
of leaves and twigs. — In the Eastern Himalaya. 
royi. S. royi Elw. This species dealt with in Vol. II, p. 215 also occurs in the Indian Himalayan district. 
Similar to the preceding forms, but the forewing is dark purple brown, the hyaline spot larger and round. $ 
lighter. Widely distributed in the Himalaya. 
mesosa. S. mesosa Jord. (= episcopalis Kaiser). Size between lola (56 A c) and megastica, in structure and habitus 
nearer to the latter. Antennae somewhat darker. In the fore wing the bright rusty red colour is more reduced 
than in megastica, and the central hyaline spot is smaller, only about as large as in lola\ in the forewing the 
central spot looks like a reverse comma, the black ring at the eyespot of the hindwing is more extensive than 
the hyaline spot. From the Khasia Hills in Assam. 
iris. S. iris Jord. is larger than the preceding species; the light ring of the eyespot in the hindwing is aP 
least partly yellow. In the male the reddish yellow colour of the wings is paler than in lola. The apical antennal 
