LYCANID. MOTA. 345 
DESCRIPTION: MALE. ‘UPPERSIDE, both cigs dull slatey-blue. C7lia white. Forewing 
with the costa somewhat narrowly (broadly at the outer end of the discoidal cell), the apex 
very broadly, the outer margin broadly and decreasingly black. AHindwing with a broad 
even outer black margin, the veins black, the abdominal margin whitish, the anal lobe 
prominently bright ochreous. 7Zzails black ciliated with white. A glandular patch of black 
scales occupying the triangular area formed by the bases of the subcostal nervules, and extends 
ing a short distance into the subcostal interspace above. UNDERSIDE, oth wings as in the 
female. ‘‘ FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, Jo¢h wings purpurascent greyish-blue. Forewing with the 
anterior margin from the costal nervure, the apex broadly, and the exterior margin violet- 
brown. Cilia grey. Hindwing with a marginal row of narrow violet-black spots ending in 
a_red anal lobe-spot, a slender black marginal line; the two ¢ai/s black with white cilia. 
Cilia greyish-white. UNbDerSIDE, doth wings glossy purpurascent greyish-white. Forewing 
with an indistinct darker bluish-grey streak at the end of the cell, and two slender lunular fascize 
along the exterior margin; a transverse discal slender prominent black broken sinuous line. 
Hindwing with a similar cell-streak and outer marginal fasciz, the latter darkest at the anal 
end; a jet-black anal lobe-spot, on which are a few scarlet scales and some turquoise-blue 
scales along its inner border; a transverse discal zigzag slender black broken line ending 
upwards above the anal lobe.” (Moore, 1. c.) 
Of this rare species the type female is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta; Mr, A. V. 
Knyvett possesses another female taken in 1883, and seven males taken by himself on the 
Observatory Hill in Darjiling, 7,500 feet, on 15th May, 1888. These are all the specimens 
of MM, bhotea with which I am acquainted, re. 
The figure shows both sides of a male specimen from Sikkim in my collection. 
Genus 145.—MOTA, nov. (PLATE XXVIII). 
WINGS, short, broad. FOREWING, costa evenly arched, apex acute, outer margin convex, 
inner margin slightly convex; costal nervure terminating opposite the apex of the discoidal 
cell; first subcostal nervule lying nearer to the costal nervure than to the second subcostal 
nervule ; second subcostal with its base nearer to the origin of the upper discoidal than to that 
of the first subcostal - ‘427d subcostal rather short, arising nearer the apex of the wing 
than of the cell; disco-cellular nervules almost upright, concave, the middle disco-cellular 
very slightly longer than the lower; second median nervule arising a short distance before 
the lower end of the cell. HINDWING, costa arched at base, thence straight to apex, outer 
margin to base of upper tail at almost right angles to the costa, waved, from base of upper 
tail to anal angle almost at right angles again; ayvza/ lobe large; abdominal margin excavated 
somewhat deeply above the anal lobe, then convex; /ai/s two, from the termination of 
the first and second median nervules, short, the upper one a little shorter than the lower ; 
costal nervure arched at base, thence straight to the apex of the wing ; A7s¢ sebcostal nervule 
originating rather close to the apex of the cell; wffer disco-cellular nervule very slightly 
concave and outwardly oblique, /ower disco-cellular straight, upright, equal in length to the 
upper ; second and third median nervules with a common origin at the lower end of the 
cell 5 submedian nervure very straight ; infermal nervure short, strongly recurved. Antenne 
short, less than half the length of the costa of the forewing. Zyes naked. Palpi long, porrect, 
reaching to about the level of the middle of the eyes, covered with very closely-set adpressed 
scales, longer in the female. Body moderately robust. Type, Atyrina massyla, Fewitson. 
The male of the type species lacks secondary sexual characters, The genus is restricted at 
present to a single species, which occurs in Bhutan and Assam. 
902. Mota massyla, Hewitson. (PLare XXVIII, Fic. 210 2). 
Myrina massyla, Hewitson, Ill. Diurn. Lep., Suppl., p. 7, n. 59, Suppl. pl. iil, figs. 87, 88, sale (1869). 
HaBitaT: Cherrapunji (Hewitson) ; Bhutan. 
EXPANSE: 9g, 1°15 to1'40; 2, 1°20 to 1°55 inches. 
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