406 LYCAENIDE, NEOMYRINA. 
As far as Iam aware, Meomyrina contains but two species, one, WV. mivea, Godman and 
Salvin, occurs in the island of Billiton, the other, V. Aiemadlis, Godman and Salvin, occurs only 
in Burma and the Malay Peninsula. They are of very large size, snow-white above, the fore~ 
wing with the apical third black, this portion suffused with a beautiful blue colour in the male. 
The underside is also white, crossed by numerous slightly dusky black-margined catenulated 
bands. The two species are very closely allied. Mr. Doherty has observed that WV. hiemalis 
frequents trees, and settles high up with closed wings on the underside of the leaves, disappear- 
ing as if by magic. 
954. Neomyrina hiemalis, Godman and Salvin. (PLATE XXVIII, Fic. 224 2). 
Myrina hiemalis, Godman and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 640, pl. xl, figs. 5,6, »ale; Neo- 
myrina hiemalis, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 249, n. 1, pl. xxii, fig. 13, female (1885) ; id., Moore, Journ. 
Linn. Soc, Lond., Zoology, vol. xxi, p. 44 (1886) ; Sithon hiemalis, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., p. 276, pl. 
xcv, male (1888), (S. 2zvea on plate). 
HABITAT: Burma, Malay Peninsula. 
EXPANSE: ¢, 1°80 to 2°20; 9, 1°65 to 2'40 inches. 
DESCRIPTION: “ FEMALE. UPPERSIDE, both wings pearly white. Forewing with the 
outer margin and a large curved apicai space terminating on the costal margin at about one- 
third from the base, black. Aindwing with the posterior margin from the apex to the median 
nervules (where it becomes obsolete), black ; an elongate black marginal spot on each side of 
the second median nervule ; /az/s with a faint and slender medial blackish line. UNDERSIDE, 
both wings pearly white. Forewing with four transverse dark greyish fascize with still darker 
margins, the first two crossing the cell and terminating at the median nervure, the third and 
fourth wider and more irregular, situated between the end of the cell and the outer margin, and 
terminating near the first median nervule, marginal and submarginal dark greyish fasciz, the 
colour between which is also dark greyish. Azndwing crossed by five irregular dark greyish 
macular fascize ; the first near the base consisting of five spots, and terminating near the base 
of the abdominal margin, the second composed of three elongate spots, of which the lower- 
most two are joined, and terminate between the first median nervule and the submedian nervure, 
the third consists of four spots commencing beneath the second subcostal nervule and recurved 
and terminating on the abdominal margin, the fourth composed of six fused spots extending in an 
almost straight line from’ the costal margin to the first median nervule, and the fifth submarginal, 
recurved, and extending to the abdominal margin ; a marginal dark greyish fascia extending from 
the apex to the third median nervule, followed by an elongate black marginal spot, a dark bluish 
spot between the second and first median nervules, two small bluish spots between that nervule 
and the submedian nervure, and a large bluish spot shaded with black at the anal angle, above 
which the submarginal fascia is also tinged with bluish ; ¢aé/s as above ; dody above pale greenish, 
beneath with /egs more or less concolorous with the wings. MALE (figured and described 
in error as a female by Messrs. Godman and Salvin) differs from the female in having the apical 
area of the UPPERSIDE of the forewing bluish, the outer margin only being black ; the posterior 
margin of the Aimdzwing is also only slightly marked with blackish, UNDERSIDE, doth wings 
as in the female.” (Déstant, 1. c.) 
Dr. J. Anderson met with this most beautiful species at Mergui in December and March, 
and at Thapo and Yimiki, King Island, and at Sullivan Island, all in the Mergui Archipelago, 
in January and February. The type specimen was captured at Meetan in Upper Tenasserim, and 
the late Herr Kiinstler obtained it at Perak, The only other known species of the genus, 
N. nivea, Godman and Salvin, which occurs on Billiton Island, differs from MV. Azemalis in the 
male on the upperside of the forewing in the black blue-suffused apical portion being evenly 
curved and narrower, not twice prominently indented as in WV. Aiemalis, and in the bands of 
the underside being less distinct and pure white, instead of enclosing a greyish space, 
The figure shews both sides of a female specimen from the Mergui Archipelago in the 
collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
