606 ME. H. H. DEUCE OK BOENEAN LYCMmDM. [June 18» 



base, partly resting on the subcostal nervure and extending up- 

 wards to the costal ner-vT.ire, and lying over that is a tuft of long 

 hairs, which are attached to the membrane of the wing below the 

 glandular patch and the subcostal nervure. 



The female possesses the same number of subcostal nervules as 

 the male. 



The tail on the submedian nervure is rather long and broad, 

 whilst that on the first median nervule is short and thread-like. 



Type, Myrina martina. Hew. 



This is I believe the first genus described amongst the Lyccvnidce 

 in «liicli the male possesses both the glandular j^atch and the tuft 

 of hairs on the hind wing, and these characters serve at once to 

 distinguish it from all others. 



Hewitson in describing his Myrina martinet noted its peculiari- 

 ties, but no writer has since referred to them. I have compared it 

 with Tajuria, but probably it is more nearly allied to Neocheritra, 

 Distant, which differs by possessing an additional subcostal nervule 

 in the fore wing (in the male) and a tuft of hairs on fore wing 

 below. 



In pattern and coloration Neocheritra and Pseudomyrina are 

 much alike. 



PSETJDOMYEINA MAETINA. 



Myrina martina, Hew\ 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. Suppl. p. 3, t. 2. 

 figs. 70, 71 (1869). 



SitJion martina, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 351. 



2 . Upperside brown, with white markings at the anal angle. 

 Much like that sex of Neocheritra theodora (see p. 608), but with 

 the tails considerably shorter. Underside as male. 



Kina Balu ( Water str, ) ; Labuan (Low and Wateistr.). 



On the underside this species closely resembles Neocheritra 

 amrita, Feld., and N. theodora, mihi, but can be distinguished by 

 the brown bar over the spots at the anal angle becoming broader 

 and straighter as it reaches the inner margin, which is not so 

 in the species mentioned '. 



ViKGARiNA, gen. nov. 



Allied to Pseudomyrina. With three branches to the subcostal 

 nervm'e of the fore wing as in that genus, the third, ho^^ ever, 

 being emitted sooner and consequently longer, Upperside of 

 fore Mdng with a large elongate-oval glandular patch below the 

 median nervure, placed obliquely across the wing and divided 



1 Messrs. Godman and Salvia's collection contains male specimens of P. hypo- 

 Icuca, Hew., from Malailg and Lawang — botli in Java — which on examination 

 prove to belong to Pseudomyrina. They possess tails of about the game length 

 as P. martina, but rather slighter ; that on the submedian nervure being white, 

 that on the first median nervule black with white tip, and white fringe. 

 Dr. Staudinger has sent specimens of P. hypolextca from Java under the name 

 " mamerta" Staud. , but I do not know where he has described it. He has 

 also sent me for examination the type female of his Sifhon [laluaiia, which I 

 lind is identical with the female of Q. martina. Hew. 



