28 DUTKNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



margin (which is pale brown) excepted : the outer half of the wing dark brown. Posterior 

 wing with two tails of unequal length, pale rufous brown : the centre light blue, clouded with 

 brown, the outer margin darker brown : a submarginal line which passes down the tails, the 

 caudal and anal spots black : the fringe and tails white. 



Underside white. Anterior wing with the outer margin and a band parallel to it rufous 

 brown. Posterio ■• wing with two submarginal lines of rufous brown from the apex to the caudal 

 spot : the caudal and anal spots black, broadly bordered above with crimson : a zigzag line 

 above these spots and the outer margin black : the fringe white. 



Exp. 2 inches. 



In the Collection of the British Museum, from Sierra Leone. 



3. Myrina Thymbrseus. 



d . Sithon Thymbraeus, Hiibner, Zv.tr. f. 671, 672. 

 Myrina Thymbraeus, Westwood in Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 476. 



2 . Amblypodia Jalindra, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. Mus. p. 110. Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 478. 

 Polyommatus Nedymond, Godart, Enc. Meth. p. 634. 



In the Collection of the East India Museum, and the Hope Collection of the Oxford 

 University Museum, from Java. 



4. Myrina Mandarinus. Plate XL 2 figs. 6, 7. 



Myrina Mandarinus, Doubledaij, Brit. Mus. List, p. 22. 



Upperside. Male. — Anterior wing brown, with a large spot of dull cerulean blue from 

 the base to beyond the middle, bounded by the inner margin and the first median nervule. Pos- 

 terior wing cerulean blue : the costal margin and apex broadly brown : one or two spots at the 

 base of the tail and one at the anal lobe black. 



Underside yellow. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by a triangular rufous 

 band : from the band to the outer margin rufous, paler, crossed by a submarginal band of rufous 

 brown. Posterior wing with a broad rufous band, and a submarginal band of the same colour 

 from the costal margin to the middle : the caudal spot (which is crowned with orange), the spot 

 at the anal lobe (which is crowned with blue), some zigzag lines above them, and the outer 

 margin black : the fringe white. 



Female rufous brown : the anal angle of the posterior wing broadly white, 

 marked with three large black spots : the outer margin and the centre of the tails black : the 

 fringe white. 



Exp. l-^u inch. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from Sylhet. 

 This species is closely allied to M. Thymbrceus ; the males are, however, entirely different. 1 



