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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



surface • the hinder wings are white, and marked on the base and disk with oblong black spots, in 

 the foUowino' manner : the two interior near the base are lengthened parallel with each other, 

 and bearing at their costal termination an intermediate black spot ; near the middle, three 

 oblong spots abruptly terminated at each end form a widely interrupted series, behind which 

 follows another broken row of four or five spots, not extending to the costa, of which the 

 interior one is lengthened, hooked at its discoidal extremity, and bifid at the inner margin ; 

 beyond this a delicate black striga composed of lunules and minute lines passes in an arch over 

 the whole surface ; the posterior margin itself is lined with a macular series, commencing with 

 three exterior spots minute and simple, extending from the costa to the middle, being followed 

 in the anal region by five diversified intensely black spots, one at each extremity being simple 

 and oblong, the next adjoining internally on each side semilunar and large; of these, one is 

 disposed on the anal appendage, the other at the marginal angle in the sinus, while the medial 

 space is occupied by an oblong spot placed at a small distance from the margin ; they are indi- 

 vidually covered with greenish silvery atoms, corresponding in form to the spots to which they 

 are applied, and forming by their union an undulate band stretching along the inner confines of 

 the anal region. Body brown above, hoary underneath. AntenruB brown with a ferruginous 

 tip, delicately crenulated with white along the lateral groove. Legs white, with distant black 

 bands on the tibia, and numerous bands on the tarsi. Tails white, with a medial black striga. 



This species greatly resembles Hesperia R. Lisias of Fabricius, of which a specimen is preserved in the 

 Banksian cabinet. A clear distinguishing character is however afforded by the fore wings, which are 

 uniformly immaculate m both sexes. Our collection contains numerous male and female specimens. In 

 the painting of the lower surface this species still preserves an affinity to the individuals of Amblypodia, but 

 in essential characters it rigidly agrees with Myrina, as above defined. 



** Alis posticis caudis duahus denteque marginali promimdo ; caudd exteriore longissimd, 

 interiore mediocri. 



48. Myuina Jafra. Alee supra fuscce maris cupreo saturato in violaceum vergerOe micantes ; 

 anticcB immaculatce, posticce regime anali atrd, in mare maculis duabus niveis fretd, una 

 marginali lunari insigni, altera interiore dblongd obsoletd ; infcemina fascid nived insigni ex 

 maculis tribus oblcmgis connatis efformatd luniddque insuper maxima ad nmrginem posticum : 

 subtus alba nitore dihto canescente lavatce, anticce limbis exteriore etpostico striold tenuissimd 

 discoidali strigdque completd posticd undulatd ex lineolis interruptis efformatd ferrugineis, 

 striga denique maculari intra marginem obsoletissimd ejusdem coloris ; posticapone discum str/gd 

 tenuissimd completd nigra, e costa ad medium usqzie ex lunulis interruptis in regione anali vero 

 ex notis arcuatis conflati ; tunc striga tenui interruptd completd in arcumper totam paginam 

 ductd ; postici denique intra marginem serie macularum ; maculis quatuor exterioribus oblongis 

 obsoletis, interioribzis quinque incequalibus aterrimis, extremis nempe linearibus, proximis maxi- 

 mis angulatis subocellaribus, alterd in sinu marginali alterd in appendiculo anali dispositd, 

 quintd oblongd transversa in spatio intermedia sitd, singulis in ordine lineolis extremis lunulis 

 plagdque intermedid viridi-argemteis irroratis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5-7 lin.) 



Plate 11, fig. 5; 5, a. 

 Myrina Jafra. MM. Latr, et Godt. Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. 593. 



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