ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN BUTTERFLIES, 315 



Description : Female. Upperside, both idngs dull fuscous, with a 

 slight gloss in some lights. Forewing unmarked. Hindwing with the 

 costa broadly whitish ; a large anal pure white patch, crossed by the 

 fuscous veins, commencing at the third median nervule, ending on the 

 abdominal margin, bearing three rounded black spots, the first in the 

 first median interspace close to the outer margin, the second, the 

 largest of the three, in the submedian interspace well removed from the 

 margin, the third on the anal lobe ; an anteciliary black line extends 

 from the anal lobe to the third median nervule and runs down the tails. 

 Underside, both wings a little paler than in the male. Forewing with 

 the inner margin whitish, but this pale area is much smaller than in 

 the male. Hindwing as in the male. Cilia of the forewing cinereous, 

 of the hindwing pure white posteriorly, cinereous anteriorly. 



The male of this species differs from M. hypoleuca, Hewitson, in 

 having the metallic-green scales (which, by-the-bye, are highly 

 deciduous) on the upperside of the forewing considerably less extensive; 

 the hindwing has the outer margin very convex instead of straight, 

 the anal tail much broader throughout its length and longer also 

 (•5 of an inch or 13 mms.), the outer black margin on the upperside 

 broader, and on the underside of the same wing there is a submarginal 

 broken black line from the abdominal margin to the third median 

 nervule, besides a marginal black spot in the submedian interspace 

 which are absent in M. hypoleuca ; there are also some additional 

 marginal black spots on the upperside of the hindwing in M. martina. 

 The " male-mark " is larger, and extends into the discoidal cell in 

 this species. 



(3) MANTO INOPINATA, Butler. 



Myrina inopinata, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xii, p. 159, n. 2 

 (1883) ; Sithon inopinata, Kheil, Rhop. Nias, p. 32, n. 106 (1884). 



Habitat : Nias Island (Butler and Kheil). 



I have not seen this species. As far as the description goes it does 

 not appear to differ from M. martina^ Hewitson, with which 

 Mr. Butler should have compared it instead of with " Myrina " timon^ 

 Fabricius, a three-tailed African species. Herr Kheil places M. martina 

 as a synonym of M. inopinata ; he should have given the former pre» 

 cedence, as it is the older name, 



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