MYRINA. 75 



Theda nedymond, Horsf. Cat. Lepid. E. I. C. p. 96, no. 28 



(1829). 



Sithon nedymond, Distant, Rhopalocera Malayana, p. 253, 

 pi. 22, fig. i (1885); Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 277, 

 pi. 95 (1888). 



$ (?) Theda chitra, Horsf. /. c. p. 97, no. 29, pi. i, fig. 5 

 (1829). 



Sithon chitra, Distant, I.e. p. 454, pi. 23, fig. 15 (1885). 



This species has been found in Java and Sumatra, as well as 

 in the Malay Peninsular, but is considered very rare every- 

 where. The wings are rather short and broad, and expand 

 about an inch and a quarter. They are black, with a rich 

 purplish-blue band covering the whole of the fore-wings, except 

 the costa, hind-margin, and the base of the inner-margin; and on 

 the hind-wings the outer third is of the same blue as far as the 

 tail and lobe, which remain black. The under surface is white, 

 with the borders broadly dusky ; towards the anal angle of the 

 hind-wings is a large fulvous blotch, spotted with metallic blue ; 

 above this a short dusky stripe runs from the band to the 

 inner-margin. The supposed female, S. chitra (Horsf.) is 

 brown above, with a white space at the anal angle of the hind- 

 wings, containing two black spots, the outer one marked with 

 blue. The fore-wings, and the upper part of the hind-wings 

 are orange, reddish towards the base, and the greater portion of 

 the rest of the hind-wings is white, with the spots towards the 

 anal angle black, bordered with blue and white. 



GENUS MYRINA. 

 Myrina, Fabricius in Illiger, Mag. Insekt. vi. p. 286 (1807); 



Trimen, S. African Butterflies, ii. p. 140 (1887); Schatz & 



Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 269 (1892). 

 Myrina, sect. C. Lntreille, Enc. Meth. ix. pp. 1 1, 592 (1819- 



1823). 



