200 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



MOTA MASSYLA. 



Plate 741, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, (J. 



Myrina massyla, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. Suppl. p. 7; Suppl. pi. 3, figs. 87, 88, $ (1869). 



Mota masst/la, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 345, pi. 28, fig. 210, ? (1890). Elwes, Eroc. Zool. 



Soc. 1892, p. 637. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 303. de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. 1899, p. 334. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside violet-blue. Forewing with the veins black, costa with 

 a narrow black band which expands at the end of the cell where there is a black spot 

 attached, the apex thus becomes broadly black and the outer margin less broadly but 

 evenly black. Hindwing with the cosral space and abdominal fold pale brownish, the 

 outer margin with a blackish band, the rest of the wing violet-blue ; anal lobe with an 

 indistinct black spot, marginal line black, with an inner white thread ; tails black, with 

 ochreous-grey cilia. Cilia of both wings ochreous-grey, with brown points at the vein 

 ends. Underside pale purplish-brown, tinged with yellow. Foreicing with the colour 

 shadino- darker towards the costa and outer margin, a blackish-brown mark at the 

 end of the post-discal series of five blackish-brown lunules in an even outward curve, 

 except the lowest, which is placed well inwards, followed by a similar series of six paler 

 brown lunules, the lowest also placed inwards, both series on a dark ground ; a row of 

 sub-marginal, somewhat diffuse, whitish lunules, making the outer part of the wing 

 pale, marginal line finely brown, somewhat thickened at the vein ends, an inner 

 whitish thread. Cilia ochreous-grey, tipped with brown, and with blackish-brown 

 points at the vein ends. Hindwing with the middle portion streaked and clouded with 

 dark chocolate-brown right across the wing ; a dark broad bar, edged with black from 

 near the costa, very straight across the inner end of the cell to vein 2, connected with 

 some very dark basal spots by spear-shaped streaks along the sub-costal and median 

 veins, a discal outwardly curved series of pale lunules, outwardly edged with black, 

 followed by another indistinct similar series, the space between them dark, outer 

 niaro-inal line brown, with an ochreous-white inner thread. Cilia ochreous-grey, tipped 

 with brown. Antennae black, club with a red tip and a white stripe beneath, the rest 

 of the antennse beneath more or less whitish pricked with black ; frons dark red, with a 

 white line on each side ; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female. Upperside only differs from the male in being somewhat paler, on the 

 underside it is exactly similar. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? lj% to li inches. 



Habitat.- — Assam, Bhutan, Sylhet, Burma. 



Distribution.— We have it from Cherra Punji, from which locality the type came ; 

 Elwes records it from Margharita in Upper Assam, de Niceville from Bhutan and 

 Tenasserim. 



