130 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



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

 first median arising at a distance from the second ecjual to the length of the lower 

 discocellular nervule ; sub-median nervure straight ; internal nervure at first straight, 

 its basal portion lying close to the basal portion of the sul:)-median nervure, then 

 greatly bowed outwardly ; male secondary sexual characters consist of a large oval 

 patch of black androcouia placed in the costal interspace extending beyond the origin 

 of the first sub costal 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 sub-median nervure consequently straight also. Hindwing with no 

 androconal patch. Otherwise as in the male. 



Type, Myrina hypoleuca, Hewitson. (de Niceville.) 



MANTO MARTINA. 



Plate 729, figs. 1, $, la, ?, lb, $. 



Myrina martina, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 3, pi. 2, figs. 70, 71 (1869). 

 Manto martina, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. See. 1895, p. 314, pi. P, fig. 44, ?. 

 Pseudomirina martina, H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 606. 



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

 border, which is continued narrowly along the costa above the sub-costal vein from the 

 end of the cell to the liase, the inner margin of the black apical band extends irregularly 

 from the end of the cell to the first median nervule a short distance from the outer 

 margin, the band then runs down the margin to the hinder angle and along the hinder 

 margin for a short distance, the rest of the wing is blue. Hindioing with the costal 

 space pale, nearly white ; a large oval black patch below it extending from the base to 

 beyond the end of the cell, and filling the cell, the abdominal space suff'used with 

 blackish, the fold pale blackish, the lower half of the abdominal margin white, limited 

 hindward by the sub-median vein ; the rest of the wing blue, but of a paler shade than 

 the blue colour of the forewing ; a narrow black outer marginal band which narrows 

 hindwards to a mere marginal line. Cilia of forewing black, with pale edges, of 

 hindwing with white edges ; tails white, with a black middle line. Underside chrome- 



* Tn M. martina, Hewitson, the androconal patch is larger than in the type, and extends into the 

 discoidal cell, the roots of the hairs being in the cell. 



