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RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



Male, Wings above dark fuliginous -brown ; posterior wings with the tail-like appendages ocnraceoua, 

 the smaller oue at anal angle with a fuliginous spot. Wings beneath browmsh-ochraceous. Anterior wings 

 with the following eastaneous markings : — a spot at base of cell, a broad outwardly curved fascia crossing 

 cell near middle, commencing on costal nervure and continued to about the subruedian nervure; between 

 this and outer margin is another broad fascia, commencing near costal margin and narrowly terminating 

 at subnicdian nervure, and a narrow, obscure and more fuscous subniarginal fascia ; at end of cell there is 

 a narrow, disco-cellular eastaneous streak. Posterior wings with the following eastaneons markings : — 

 a series of basal spots, two narrow and much-waved and siuuated discal fasciae crossing wing beyond 

 middle, between which and the basal spots is u broad obscure fascia commencing on eosta] nervure and 

 terminating at median nervure; a dark subinarginal line at aual angle enclosing two blackish spots with 

 scattered metallic greenish scales, ami :i prominent black spot on inner and shorter tail-like appendage. 

 Body and legs more or less coneolorous with wings, 



Female. Wings above olivaceous-brown; posterior wings with a large white anal angular patch 

 divided by the dark median nervules, and containing a large black marginal spot between the second and 

 third median nervules and a smaller and much more obsolete spot at anal angle ; tail-like appendages 

 white, with black basal streaks. Wings beneath whitish j anterior wings with the castaneous markings 

 as in male, the outer fascia narrowly margined with white, and the remaining ground colour pale 

 eastaneous^; posterior wings with the markings more distinct and linear than on male. 



Exp, wings, ^ , SI to SS millim, ; 9 , 85 to 42 millim. 



Hab. — Burma; Moulmein (Brit. Mus.). — Malay Peninsula; Province Welle sley (coll. Dist.) ; Perak 

 (Kunstler — Galcutt, Mus.) ; Singapore (coll. Godfery). 



Genus NEOMYRINA. 



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Anterior wings with the costal margin strongly arched; the outer margin nearly straight , the 

 apex subacute, the posterior angle rounded ; the inner margin slightly concavely sinuate. Costal nervure 

 short, terminating on costal margin considerably before end of cell ; first subcostal nervuie emitted at 

 about middle of cell and terminating on costal margin nearly opposite end of cell, second emitted rather 

 nearer the bane, of third than first, third arising a slant distance beyond uiid of cell, third and fourth 

 bifurcating at about two-thirdB the length of third ; upper median nervule from end of cell and emitted nearer 

 to second than second is from third, which is emitted fully two-thirds from base of median nervure. Posterior 

 wings elongately subovate, costal margin oblique and very slightly convex, apex obtusely acute ; posterior 

 margin oblique, slightly waved, prominently angulated at apex of second median nervule, and with two 

 tail-like appendages, one very long at apex of third median nervule, the second short and slender at apex 

 of salauedian nervure. Costal nervure about reaching apex of wing ; subcostal nervules bifurcating about 

 one-third before end of cell, disco- cellular nervules almost obsolete; iirst and second median nervules with 

 an apparently common origin just before the end of cell ; submedian nervure almost straight, internal 

 nervure curved and rounded inwardly. Body short, moderately robust ; palpi porrect, the second joint 

 extending distinctly before the eyes ; apical joint much more slender than second, but moderately 

 robust. 



It is necessary to form a new genus for the following species, as Myrina, under which it 

 was originally placed^ and the type of which is the African M, si Units, Fabr., possesses strongly 

 distinct structural characters. 



