jjg DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



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

 the following 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, beinc followed 

 in the anal region by five diversified intensely black spots, one at each extremity beino' 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. Antennm 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 wines which are 

 uniformly immaculate in 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 duabus denteque marginali prominulo ; caudd exteriort lonqissima 

 interiore mediocri. 



48. Myrina Jafra. Ala supra fuscce maris cupreo saturate in violaceum vergente micantes • 

 anticce immaculatce, postica regione anali atrd, in mare maculis duabus niveis fretd, una. 

 marginali lunari insigni, altera interiore oblongd obsoletd ; infcemi?ia fascia nived insigni ex 

 maculis tribus oblongis connatis efformatd lunuldque insuper maxima ad marginem posticum ■ 

 subtus alba nitore diluto canescente lavata, anticce limbis exteriore etpostico striold tenuissimd 

 discoidali strigdque completd postica undulatd ex lineolis interrupts efformatd ferrugineis 

 striga denique maculari intra marginem obsoletissimd ejusdem color is ; postica pone discum striqd 

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

 ex notis arcuatis toiiflati ; tunc striga tenui interruptd completd in arcum per totam paginam 

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

 obsoletis, interioribus quinque inaqualibus aterrimis, extremis nempe linearibus, proximis maxi- 

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

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

 plagdque intermedia viridi-argenteis irroratis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5-7 lin.) 

 Plate II, fig. 5 ; 5, a. 

 Myrina Jafra. MM. Latr. et Godt. Enc. M&h. Hist. Nat. ix. 593. 



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