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Genus MYRINA. 



Myrina, Godart. 



This genus contains species of great diversity of form and colour. The males of one 

 species, 31. Amrita, have a fourth branch from the subcostal nervure, the rest have two 

 or three branches ; but as this difference is unaccompanied by any corresponding 

 diversity in the structure, and seems here only worthy of notice as a specific character, 

 I have not used it as a sectional demarcation. M. Amrita, M. Otraeda, M. Phocides, 

 M. Sityriva, and M. Nedymond have, as in the genus Deudorix, a tuft of long hair on 

 the inner margin of the underside of the anterior wing ; and below it, on the posterior 

 wing, a cup-like depression. Some species have the longest tail close to the anal angle 

 and in a line with the submedian nervure ; others have it in continuation with the third 

 branch of the median nervure. I have divided the genus into two sections. Most of 

 those included in the second section are of much more robust habit than those which 

 precede them ; their antennae are longer and more distinctly clubbed ; they resemble 

 Deudorix, but have the palpi longer. 



Amblypodia Janyala of Horsfield, and two new species closely allied to it, ought 

 probably to come into this genus ; at the present time I have hesitated to include 

 them. 



A. Head small. Eyes small, smooth. 



1. Myrina Amrita. Plate XI. figs. ? 1, 6 2, 3. 

 Myrina Amrita, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monats. iv. p. 395. 



Exp. 1 t 8 q inch. 



In the Collections of the East India Museum and Dr. Felder, from India and Malacca. 



This species differs in a remarkable way from the rest of the genus. In the male, the inner 

 margin of the anterior wing is rounded and projected outwardly, as in Euploea ; the middle of 

 this margin has a tuft of long hair projecting from it at right angles, which covers a curious 

 circular cup-like hollow spot on the opposite margin of the posterior wing : the male has, 

 besides this, a fourth branch from the subcostal nervure of the anterior whig. 



2. Myrina Maesa. Plate XI. d figs. 4, 5. 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing pale blue from the base to the middle, the costal 



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