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above median nervure, and a little beyond middle. Hind- 

 wing : blue forming a curved transverse stripe between 

 subcostal and submedian nervures, reaching to just before 

 anal angle, which is lobed and marked with a dark-red spot ; 

 tail whitish, black-margined. Cilia greyish. Under-side. — 

 Soft, pale hrotonish-grey. Fore-wing : paler towards inner- 

 margin ; costa and hind - margin edged with ochreous. 

 Hind-tving : hind and inner margins edged with ochreous, 

 excepting anal-angular lobe, which is black-edged and 

 marked with a purplish-red spot ; two similar spots near it, 

 close to hind-margin ; tail black ; before lobe, from inner- 

 margin, two short, curved, black, whitish-edged, transverse 

 streaks, of which the outer is indistinct. 



This species is readily distiuguished from L. Alcides by the want of 

 chesnut red tips to the fore-wiugs, much fainter blue spaces, and grey 

 under-burface. The tails, also, of the single specimen from which the above 

 description was made are shorter and narrower than in Alcides, and not 

 twisted. The insect appears to be rare, Walleugrec's description being 

 made from a single damaged specimen in Wahlberg's collection. 



South Africa (Zoolu). — Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 " Caffraria."— Wahlberg. 



Genus MYRINA. 

 Myrina, GodL, Horsf. 

 Imago. — Allied to Loxura, but of a less robust structure. 

 Palpi long, but shorter and thinner than in Loxura; anlenncB 

 longer, more slender. Hind-ivings bearing one to three tails, 

 of which that on third median nervule is sometimes very long. 

 Not having seen Myrina Pallene of Wallengren, I cannot 

 state whether I consider the species truly referable to this 

 Genus. 



127. Myrina Pallene. 



]\Iyrina Pallene, Wallgr., Lep. Rliop. Caffr., p. 36. 

 " ? . Exp. 1 in. 7 lin! 



" Wkitish-geHoiv. Fore-iving : at apex broadly bordered 

 toith fuscous, which extends wlong hind-margin as far as third 

 median nervule.* Hind-wing: towards anal angle tinged 



segment with a dorsal prominence, most marked on the fifth, ninth, and 

 tenth segments : the fifth, seventh, and eighth prominences ferruginous, the 

 ninth conspicuously white. In March, feeding on the cultivated Fig ; its 

 colour closely resembling that of the under-surface of the leaves. 



* la Wallengren's description " ad exitum costw 8 : v<e" but this is no 

 doubt a misprint of •' 2 ; da.'* 



