198 Mr. P. I. Lathy's 



The nearest ally of this species appears to be D. antalus, 

 Hopff. ; its much darker colour at once serves to dis- 

 tinguish it from that species; the tuft of hair on inner 

 margin of the fore-wing below is much longer in D. Hvida 

 than in I), antalus. 



148. Deudorix himaculata. 



Myrina himaculata. Hew., Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 

 853. 



149. Dmulorix lorisona. 



Myrina lorisona, Hew., 111. D. Lep., p. 87, t. IG, f 48, 

 49 (1863). 



150. Deudorix antalus. 



Dijpsas antalus, Hopff., Monatsb. Akad. Wiss.. Berlin, 

 1855, p. 641. 



151. Myi^ina silcnus. 



Pap. silcnus, Fabr., Syst. Ent., p. 581 (1775). 



152. Myrina snhornata, sj). nov. (Plate VIII, fig. S.) 



Upper-side. — Fore-wing blaclc, a brilliant deep blue patch in cell, 

 and a large area of the same colour l>elow cell. Hind-wing black, 

 cell and area below and beyond brilliant deep blue ; a deep crimson 

 spot at anal angle ; siibmedian nervure produced into a moderately 

 long white centred black tail. 



Under-side. — Fore-wing dark brownish-grey, with a faint purple 

 tinge, paler towards inner margin. Hind-wing dark brownish-grey, 

 with a faint purjple tinge ; a black bar at end of cell ; a curved 

 discal series of irregular black markings, those next inner margin 

 being inwardly edged with whitish ; submarginal whitish powdered 

 black marking extending from inner margin to middle median 

 nervule ; anal lobe deep crimson inwardly edged with white. 



Exp. 38 millim. 



This species may be separated from M. donucptcra, 

 Wgr., a South African sj^ecies, by the discal black mark- 

 ings of hind-wings below. 



153. Oxylidcs f annus. 



Fap. f annus, Dru., 111. Exot. Ins. ii, p. 2, t. 1, f. 4, 5 



(1773). 



154. Hypolijcsena hatita. 



H. hatita. Hew., 111. D. Lep., p. 51, t. 23, f. 21-24 

 (1865). 



