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tions of the second and first median nervules ; tails, two — a short 

 one from the termination of the first median nervule ("15 of an inch 

 or 3*5 mms. in length); a long one at the termination of the submedian 

 nervure ( - 4 of an inch or 9 mms. in length in the type species, consider- 

 ably longer in M. martinet,, Hewitson); anal lobe small; abdominal margin 

 excavated above the anal lobe, then straight to near the base, when it is 

 inwardly curved ; costal nervure curved throughout its length, greatly 

 so towards the base ; first subcostal nervule arising well before the apex 

 of the cell, slightly curved ; upper disco-cellular nervule straight, out- 

 wardly oblique ; lower disco-cellular also straight, outwardly oblique, 

 but not so much so as the upper disco-cellular, a little longer than that 

 veinlet ; third and second median nervules arising together at the lower 

 end of the cell ; first median arising at a distance from the second equal 

 to the length of the lower disco-cellular nervule ; submedian nervure 

 straight ; internal nervure at first straight, its basal portion lying close 

 to the basal portion of the submedian nervure, then greatly bowed 

 outwardly ; male secondary sexual characters consist of a large oval 

 patch of black androconia placed in the costal interspace extending 

 beyond the origin of the first subcostal nervule, but not extending into 

 the cell in the type species, across which lies a thick tuft of black hairs 

 turned forwards across the androconal glandular patch, the roots of the 

 hairs being just within the cell.* Antennae, exactly half the length of 

 the costa of the forewing, with a thin elongated club. Palpi rather 

 long, porrect, scaly, the third joint long. Thorax rather robust. 

 Abdomen not nearly reaching to the anal angle of the hindwing. 

 Female. Forewing, has the inner margin straight, not outwardly 

 bowed as in the male, the submedian nervure consequently straight also. 

 Hindwing with no androconal patch. Otherwise as in the male 

 Type, " Myrina " kypoleuca, Hewitson. 



This genus comes into the seventh division of the Indian Lyccenidce 

 as proposed by me in " The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon," 

 vol. iii, p. 398, which contains eleven Oriental genera. These eleven 

 genera can be split up into two subdivisions according to the position 



* In M. martinet) Hewitson, the androconal patch is larger than in the type, and ex- 

 tends into the discoidal cell, the roots of the hairs being in the cell. Mr. W. Doherty in 

 Journ. A. S. B., vol. lviii, pt. 2, p. 417 (1889), records the following note : — " Some rare 

 species of Neocheritra are green above in some lights, especially N. martina, a Bornean 

 species. The allied N. hypoleuca was also figured by Hewitson as green, apparently by 

 mistake." The males of both species are of course green on the upperside. 



