LYC/ENIDZE. NEOMYRINA. 405 
UPPERSIDE, forewing with the purple area in the male replaced by a smaller pale blue patch, 
leaving the apical half of the wing and the outer margin at the anal angle black, a diffused 
white spot at the end of the cell, and another beyond it divided by the second median nervule 
into two portions. indwing also pale blue, all except the costa widely and the outer mar- 
gin decreasingly, which are black. UNDERSIDE, doth wings paler than in the male, but 
similarly marked. Cv/ia pale ferruginous throughout.” 
“ There are single males of this very beautiful species in the collections of Major Mar- 
shall and Messrs. Otto Méller and A. V. Knyvett, and a single female in that of Mr. Moller, 
all of them taken in Sikkim, Mr. MOller’s specimens in June. It is quite unlike any species 
known to me.”’ (de Nicéville, 1. c.) The Rev. Walter A. Hamilton has obtained a pair of this 
species in the Khasi Hills, the female he has generously presented to me. 
The figure shews both sides of a male specimen from Sikkim in my collection. 
Genus 155.—NEOMYRINA, Distant. (PLATE XXVIII), 
Neomyrina, Distant, Rhop. Malay,, p. 248 (1884). 
‘‘ FOREWING, with the cos/al margin strongly arched ; ower margin nearly straight ; apex 
subacute ; osterior angle rounded ; inner margin slightly concavely sinuate ; costal nervure short, 
terminating on the costal margin considerably before the end of the cell ; first subcostal nervule 
emitted at about the middle of the cell and terminating on the costal margin nearly opposite 
[just beyond] the end of the cell, second subcostal emitted rather nearer the base of the third than 
first, third subcostal arising a short distance beyond [before] the end of the cell, ¢Aivd and fourth 
subcostals bifurcating at about two-thirds the length of the third ; ¢hivd median nervule from 
the end of the cell and emitted nearer to the second than the second is from the first, firs¢ 
median emitted fully two-thirds from the base of the median nervure. HINDWING, elongately 
subovate, costal margin oblique and very slightly convex, afex obtusely acute, posterior margin 
oblique, slightly waved, prominently angulated at the apex of the second median nervule, 
and with two /ai/s, one very long at the apex of the first median nervule, the second short and 
slender at the apex of the submedian nervure ; costal mervure about reaching the apex of the 
wing, subcostal nervules bifurcating about one-third before the end of the cell, disco-cellular 
nervules almost obsolete, ¢hird and second median nervules with an apparently common origin 
just before the end of the cell, submedian nervure almost straight, é¢ernal nervure curved 
and rounded inwardly. Bopy short, moderately robust; fa/gi porrect, the second joint 
extending distinctly before the eyes, apical joint much more slender than the second, but 
moderately robust ;” much longer in the female than in the male. yes naked. 
‘It is necessary to form a new genus for the following species, as JZyrina, Fabricius, 
under which it was originally placed, and the type of which is the African JZ. silenus, Fabri- 
cius, possesses strongly distinct structural characters.” (Déstant, 1. c.) 
Neomyrina is a most distinct genus with no near Indian ally. Inthe forewing the costa 
is strongly convex, the costal and subcostal nervures lying very far apart, the costal nervure and 
first subcostal nervule are remarkably short, the base of the second subcostal is equidistant 
between the bases of the first subcostal and upper discoidal nervules, the third subcostal arises 
about midway between the apices of the cell and of the wing, the middle disco-cellular nervule 
is unusually short, thus bringing the discoidal nervules close together, the lower disco-cellular is 
slightly inwardly oblique and concave, the second median nervule arises some distance before 
the lower end of the cell. Inthe hindwing the upper disco-cellular nervule is very short, outs 
wardly oblique, the lower disco-cellular is almost upright, slightly outwardly oblique, the second 
median nervule has its origin immediately before the lower end of the cell; the long tail is 
unusually broad at its base, and is traversed throughout its length by the first median nervule, 
the anal lobe is small, placed some little distance up the abdominal margin, its usual position 
being occupied by the short tail, the abdominal margin is slightly excavated above the lobe, 
The male has no secondary sexual characters. 
