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Sub-Family CHERITRIN^. 



In this sub-family we put seven genera : Thamala, Moore ; Mota, de Nieeville ; 

 Cheritrella, de Nieeville ; Neomyrina, Distant ; Ticherra, de Nieeville ; Clieritra, Moore ; 

 and Neocheritra, Distant. The eyes in all are naked, the costal and sub-costal veins of the 

 forewing are well separated from each other ; in all the genera the hindwing is more or 

 less produced hindwards, the anal portion more or less truncated, all have two tails from 

 the ends of the sub-median vein and vein 2 (except Mota), the outer tail the longer, 

 except in the genus Neocheritra, where the length of the tails is reversed, the outer tail 

 being fairly long, the inner tail more than twice as long ; in the aberrant genus Mota the 

 tails are at the ends of veins 2 and 3 ; all have anal lobes with the abdominal margin 

 more or less excavated above it ; the palpi are long, generally longer in the female than 

 in the male. Thamala has two sub-costal nervules in the forewing, all the others have 

 three, except Neocheritra, which has four in the male and three in the female. Thamala, 

 Cheritra and Neocheritra possess secondary sexual characters in the males, the others 

 do not ; Thamala has a small streak of modified scales along the sub-median vein of 

 the forewing towards the base on the underside ; in Cheritra there is a small brush of 

 hairs on the hindwing on the upperside lying anteriorly across the sub-costal inter- 

 space and a small glandular oval patch of scales beneath the area covered by the 

 hairs ; Neocheritra has a tuft of hairs on the forewing, with a corresponding depression 

 on the hindwing. 



Genus THAMALA. 



Thamala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Sec. 1878, p. 834. de Nieeville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 387 (1890). 



Eyes naked. Forewing, vein 12 ends on the costa, opposite the end of the cell, 

 11 emitted from the middle of the cell, 10 from one-third before the end, cell long, 

 more than half the breadth of the wing, upper discocellular convex, slightly outwardly 

 oblique, the lower the longer, upright, nearly in a straight line with the upper, vein 6 

 from near upper end of cell, 5 from upper end of lower discocellular, 3 from close to 

 the lower end of cell, 2 from one-fourth before the end ; costa convex at base, apex sub- 

 acute, outer margin slightly oblique and somewhat recurved, hinder angle acute, hinder 

 margin nearly straight ; a narrow glandular streak of modified scales along each side of 

 the sub-median vein towards the base, on the underside, below which the hinder margin 

 is slightly outwardly bowed. Hindwing, vein 8 much curved at the base, slightly 

 so thence to the apex of the wing, 7 emitted at one-third before the end of the cell, 

 well-arched, discocellulars of equal length, outwardly oblique, the upper slightly 



