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RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



Male. Wings above dark fuliginous-browu ; posterior wings with tlie tail-like appendages oehraceous, 

 the smaller one at anal angle with a fuliginous spot. Wings beneath brownish-ochraceous. Anterior wings 

 with the following castaneous markings :— a spot at base of cell, a broad outwardly curved fascia crossing 

 cell near middle, commencing on costal nervure and continued to about the submedian nervure ; between 

 this and outer margin is another broad fascia, commencing near costal margin and narrowly terminating 

 at submedian nervure, and a narrow, obscure and more fuscous submarginal fascia ; at end of cell there is 

 a narrow, disco-cellular castaneous streak. Posterior wings with the following castaneous markings : — 

 a series of basal spots, two narrow and much-waved and sinuated discal fasciae crossing wing beyond 

 middle, between which and the basal spots is a broad obscure fascia commencing on costal nervure and 

 terminating at median nervure ; a dark submarginal line at anal angle enclosing two blackish spots with 

 scattered metallic greenish scales, and a prominent black spot on inner and shorter tail-like appendage. 

 Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. Wings above olivaceous-brown ; posterior wings with a large white anal angular patch 

 divided by the dark median nervules, and containing a large black marginal spot between the second and 

 third median nervules and a smaller and much more obsolete spot at anal angle ; tail-like appendages 

 white, with black basal streaks. AVings beneath whitish ; anterior wings with the castaneous markings 

 as in male, the outer fascia narrowly margined with white, and the remaining ground colour pale 

 castaneous ; posterior wings with the markings more distinct and linear than on male. 



Exp. wings, J , 31 to 38 millim.; 2 , 35 to 42 millim. 



Hab. — Burma ; Moulmein (Brit. Mus.). — Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Perak 

 (Kiiustler — Calcutt. Mus.) ; Singapore (coll. Godfery). . . 



Genus NEOMYKINA. 



Xeoiiiijrina, Distant, ontta, p. 234. 



Anterior wings with the costal margin strongly arched ; the outer margin nearly straight, the 

 apex subacute, the posterior angle rounded ; the inner margin slightly concavely sinuate. Costal nervure 

 short, terminating on costal margin considerably before end of cell ; first subcostal nervule emitted at 

 about middle of cell and terminating on costal margin nearly opposite end of cell, second emitted rather 

 nearer the base of third than iirst, third arising a short distance bej-ond end of cell, third and fourth 

 bifurcating at about two-thirds the length of third ; upper median nervule from end of cell and emitted nearer 

 to second than second is from third, which is emitted fully two-thirds from base of median nervure. Posterior 

 wings elongately subovate, costal margin oblique and very slightly convex, apex obtusely acute ; posterior 

 margin oblique, slightly waved, prominently angulated at apex of second median nervule, and with two 

 tail-like appendages, one very long at apex of third median nervule, the second short and slender at apex 

 of submedian nervure. Costal nervure about reaching apex of wing ; subcostal nervules bifurcating about 

 one-third l)efore end of cell, disco-cellular nervules almost obsolete ; first and second median nervules with 

 an apparently common origin just before the end of cell ; submedian nervure almost straight, internal 

 nervure curved and rounded inwardly. Body short, moderately robust ; palpi porrect, the second joint 

 extending distinctly before the eyes; apical joint much more slender than second, but moderately 

 roltust. 



It is necessary to form a new genus for the Iblluwing species, as Mijrwa, under which it 

 was originally placed, and the type of which is the African .1/. dleaus, Fabr., possesses strongly 

 distinct structural characters. 



