6 DIUENAL LEPIDOPTEEA. 



56. Myrina Micea, Heivitson. Plate III. <$ fig. 81. 



Upperside. Male. — Violet-blue, with the costal and outer margins broadly dark brown. 

 Posterior wing with one tail : the lobe of the anal angle which is marked by some scales of 

 silvery blue is very singularly prolonged : the base dark brown, thickly clothed with hair. 



Underside. Both wings rufous, of two shades of colour, their bases silvery white. 

 Posterior wing with the anal angle beautifully varied : a black spot near the base of the tail 

 crowned with silver : three black spots of different form above the lobe traversed with silver, 

 one in the middle of a space of orange : above these, at the end of the abdomen, a large black 

 spot marked by two spots of white and bordered above with white marked by a smaller spot 

 of black : a submarginal white line. 



Exp. l^j inch. 



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



Much like M. Nedymond, but at the same time very different. 



57. Myrina Melisa, Hewitson. Plate III. $ figs. 82, 83. 



Upperside. Male. — Dark brown. Posterior wing with two tails : the anal half cerulean 

 blue marked by two lunular black spots : the fringe and a submarginal line at the base of 

 the tails white. 



Underside white. Anterior wing with three spots near the base, a large spot beyond the 

 middle of the costal margin, a spot and some lines below it and the apex rufous-brown. Pos- 

 terior wing with many outline spots of brown : the anal angle silvery blue, with two black 



.spots. 



Female does not differ from the male, except in having a central white spot 



at the middle of the anterior wing. 



Exp. 6 j% 2 1-eV inch. 



In the Collection of Mr. W. S. Atkinson of Calcutta, from Maulmain and Darjeeling. 



Nearly allied to M. Scteva, PI. XV., but differs from it in being without the blue central spot 

 of the anterior wing, and in having the spots on the underside in outline only. 



Myrina Ciniata. Plate III. $ var. fig. 84. 



Myrina Ciniata, Hewitson, Lycanidcn, pi. 14. $ figs. 30, 31. 



My former figure, to which I have referred above, was from a female. I have since received 

 the male, which does not differ from it except in its greater size and in the more acute apex 

 of the anterior wing. The variety now figured is of brighter colour on the underside, has the 

 white band of the posterior wing narrower, and the marginal decorations much more beautiful. 

 This species varies considerably in colour, but much more in size. Specimens in my collection 

 vary from T 9 ff to ly 4 ^ inch. 



In the Collection of George Semper, from Mindanao. 



