CHERITBIN^. 199 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ l-i^ to ly%- inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



Distribution. — The types came from Taoo, 3,500 feet, in Upper Tenasserim, and 

 are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; it is in coll. Druce from the Ataran Valley, de 

 Niceville records it also from Beeling and Maulmein, and it is in the B. M. The 

 males are almost indistinguishable from T. marciana, Hewitson, but the females are 

 different, the ground colour above in marciana is much brighter, and more nearly 

 resembles the bright colour of the male, the anal space in the hindwing is -much 

 brighter and paler blue-grey and the tails are white, in miniata they are ochreous, and 

 there are anal black marks on the underside of the hindwing in marciana, on a dark 

 grey ground, lined above and below with white and a short white band above it against 

 the abdominal margin, all wanting in miniata. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Thamala marciana, Myrina marciana, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 34, pi. 16, fig. 44, ^, pi. 12, 



figs. 12, 13, 9 (1863). Habitat, Malacca, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo. 



Thamala natuna, Thamala marciana natuna, Prtihstorfer, Iris, 1904, p. 148. Habitat, Natuna 

 Island. 



Genus MOTA. 

 Mota, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 345 (1890). 



Eyes naked. Forewing with vein 3 emitted a short distance before lower end of 

 cell, discocellulars almost upright, concave, the middle discocellular very slightly longer 

 than the lower; vein 9 out of 7 beyond its middle, 10 from one-fourth before end of 

 cell, 11 from the middle, 12 ends on the costa opposite the end of the cell ; wing short, 

 broad, costa arched, apex acute, outer margin convex, hinder margin slightly convex. 

 Hindwing with vein 3 from close to lower end of cell, 2 from the middle, the sub-median 

 nervure very straight, internal nervure short, strongly recurved ; upper discocellular 

 very slightly concave and outwardly oblique, lower straight, upright, equal in length 

 to the upper ; vein 7 much arched, emitted close to the upper end of the cell, 8 arched 

 at base, then straight to the apex of the wing ; costa of wing arched at base, then 

 straight to apex, outer margin to base of upper tail at almost a right angle to the costa, 

 waved from base of upper tail to anal angle, almost at a right angle again ; anal lobe 

 large, abdominal margin excavated somewhat deeply above the anal lobe, then convex ; 

 tails two, from the ends of veins 2 and 3, short, the upper one a little shorter than the 

 lower. Antenna3 less than half the length of costa of forewing ; palpi long, porrect, 

 covered with very closely-set adpressed scales, longer in the female ; body moderately 

 robust. 



Type, Myrina massyla, Hewitson. 



