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usual position being occupied by the short tail, abdominal margin slightly excavated 

 above the lobe, no secondary sexual characters ; body short, moderately robust ; palpi 

 long, porrect, longer in the female than in the male. Doherty says it is a tree 

 butterfly, alights on the underside of leaves, with closed wings, disappearing in the 

 act as if by magic. 



Type, Myrlna hiemalis, Godman and Salvin. 



NEOMYRINA HIEMALIS. 



Plate 741, figs. 3, <J , 3a, ? , 3b, ? . 



Mijrina hiemalis, Godman and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 640, pi. 40, figs. .5, 6, ^ (nee 9 )■ 

 Neomyrina hiemalis, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 240, pi. 22, fig. 13, 9 (188.5). Moore, Journ. Linn. 



Soc. Zool. Lond. 1886, p. 44. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 406, pi. 28, fig. 224, ? (1890). 



Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 640. 

 Sithon hiemalis, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett. p. 276, pi. 95, ^ (1888) [S. nivea on plate). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside pearly-white, with the bands of the underside visible. 

 Forewing with a broad black apical band which runs narrowly a short distance on the 

 costa and narrows gradually hindwards on the outer margin ; it has a black round 

 spot-like projection opposite the apical middle and another a little inwards, and the 

 band, except on its margins, is glossed with blue in certain lights. Hindwing with a 

 sub-marginal series of fine black lunules in the interspaces, a black spot touched with 

 blue at the end of the first median interspace. Underside milk-white, bands grey with 

 fine black edgings. Forewing with an elongated spot in the middle of the cell, with a 

 dot above it, and a black dot below it, another at the end of the cell, difi'usedly 

 continued to the costa, with a small black spot below it, followed by two bands at 

 equal distances apart, composed of conjoined lunular bars, both ending on vein 2; a 

 sub-marginal narrow band, edged with a black lunular line, on its outer side only, a 

 nearly even narrow band without black edgings, close to the margin. Hindwing with 

 six bands similar to those in the forewing at fairly equal distances apart, the first basal, 

 composed of three disconnected spots, the second of four, the third of four larger and 

 longer spots, the fourth of four, with an angular continuous bend which is deeply angled 

 and runs to the abdominal margin, the fifth of conjoined spots also bent in at its 

 lower end to the abdominal margin, the sixth sub-marginal, a black spot at the anal 

 angle, another in the first median interspace, both with metallic blue scales on them, 

 marginal line finely black. Antennae black, with white dots beneath ; head and body 

 above with blue and white hairs, white beneath. There are also a few blue scales at 

 the base of both wings on the upperside. 



Female. Similar to the male above and below. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ l^- to 2-j'o inches. 



2 D 2 



