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Myrina jaffra, Marshall and de Niceville (nee Butler), Butt, of India, i. pi. 1, structure of imago 



(1882). 

 Cheritra jafra, Doherty, Journ. As. Soo. Bengal, 1886, p. 135. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside purple-brown, lighter in colour than Ticherra acte and 

 with a lilac tint in certain lights. Forewlng without markings. Hindwing with the 

 tails white, marginal line black, an inner white line from the long outer tail to the end 

 of vein 4, a rather broad white band above the black marginal line from the outer tail 

 to the anal angle, with a black band above it, composed of two conjoined square spots, 

 which at their lower outer end are joined to a large square black spot immediately 

 above the marginal white line outside the outer tail, with three or four diffuse 

 white spots above them capped with indistinct blackish lunules, abdominal fold grey. 

 Cilia of the forewing black, of the hindwing white, becoming towards the apex 

 pale ochreous-grey. Underside greyish-white. Forewing slightly darker towards 

 the costa and outer margin, tinged with ochreous, markings grey, indistinct, a 

 very delicate line across the end of cell, often obsolete, an indistinct post-discai 

 line of lunules in the interspaces. Hindwing with two sub-marginal lunular 

 lines which are somewhat dentated and angular as they curve round to the 

 abdominal margin, gradually getting wider apart from each other in the curve, then 

 nearing each other somewhat before reaching the abdominal margin, the ground 

 colour of the wing paler hindwards, becoming nearly pure white on the anal portion, 

 a black anal spot, another in the first median interspace, both somewhat diffuse, 

 with some diffuse grey suffusion between them, and metallic blue-green scales on them. 

 Antennae black, with white dots beneath ; frons black, eyes ringed with white ; head 

 and body above and below concolorous with the wings, legs with brown patches, tarsi 

 with brown bands. 



Female, like the male above and beneath, but without the blue gloss, the white 

 marginal band at the anal angle is broader, and the white spots above the black band 

 are conjoined and very much larger, and on the underside the anal spots are larger and 

 more distinct. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? Ij to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — N. India, Bhutan, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo. 



Distribution. — The type is said to have come from Tranquebar, a very doubtful 

 locality ; there is no record of it being found in Southern India since ; Moore records it 

 from Ahsown, near Maulmein ; Elwes from the Karen Hills, the. Naga Hills, and from 

 Margharita in Upper Assam ; Watson from the Chin Lushai ; Manders from the Shan 

 States ; de Niceville from Kumaon ; Distant from the Malay Peninsula ; Horsfield 

 from Java ; Druce from Borneo ; we have it in our collection from Buxar, Rangoon, 

 Bhamo, Mandalay, and have received many examples of both sexes from the Khasia 

 Hills. 



