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the male, more than twice as loug in the female, as the outer tail at the termination of 

 the first median nervule. Eyes smooth, (de Niceville.) 

 Type, Myrina mandarinus, Hewitson. 



CHARANA MANDARINUS. 



Plate 724, figs. 2, (J, 2a, ? , 2b, ^ . 



Myrina mandarinus, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 28, pi. 11, figs. 6, 7, 9 (1863). 

 Sithon mandarinus, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 3. 



Charana mandarinus, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 401, pi. 28, fig. 222, ,J (1890) ; id. Journ. 

 Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1899, p. 334. Swinhoa Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 305. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside cerulean-blue. Forewing with a very broad black 

 costal border, narrow along the costa above the sub-costal vein to near the end of the 

 cell, the inner margin of the costal border then running somewhat irregularly across 

 the upper end of the cell to near the outer margin below vein 2, the band then 

 expanding on the hinder margin, leaving the better part of the cell and the remaining 

 lower portion of the wing blue. Hindwing with the costal space black, the black 

 colour not entering the cell, but coming a little below vein 5 ; the abdominal fold 

 brown, anal lobe black, with a whitish space on the fold immediately above it, a black 

 sub-terminal spot in each of the next two interspaces, terminal line black ; tails black, 

 fringed with white on each side. Cilia of forewing black, tipped with white, of 

 hindwing white with black spots at the vein ends. Underside chrome-yellow. 

 Forewing with a dark chocolate-brown discal broad band straight down from the 

 costa, gradually narrowing hindwards to below vein 2, its outer edge marked with 

 darker brown lunules which are continued below the band in an outwardly curved 

 linear mark to the sub-median vein, the curve edged outwardly with yellow, the whole 

 space outside the band suffused with dark chocolate-brown a little lighter in shade than 

 the band itself, a sub-marginal dark line of lunules in it. Hindwing with a similar but 

 narrower discal band from the costa near the apex straight down, and rather near the 

 outer margin, the space between it and the margin suffused with pale chocolate-brown, 

 a narrow band outside the broad band, another similar band close down the margin, 

 both joining and continued in a broader form to the anal angle, a line of black 

 angulated lunules from the inner lower end of the broad band curving to the abdominal 

 margin close above the marginal band, with a pure white space between them, a large 

 black spot in the anal lobe, another in the first interspace, both capped with indistinct 

 dull orange-red, a black terminal line with an inner white line. Antennae black, 

 ringed with white, club with a red tip ; frons white, with a black middle stripe, eyes 

 ringed with white ; head and body black above with blue pubescence, yellow beneath. 



Female. — Upperside dark rufous-brown. Forewing without markings. Hindwing 



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