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apex broadly bordered, but liind-margin only lineally edged with black ; 
inner-marginal border broadly blackish as far as submedian nervure ; 
longitudinal fold between median and submedian nervures marked with 
a broad silky black ray ; anal- angular lobe marked with a dull-crimson 
spot speckled with a few bluish scales ; tail black, with a white tip and 
a white central streak, more or less stained with orange at base. Cilia 
greyish, in hind-wing mixed with whitish. Under side. — Soft brownish 
grey ; costa and hind-margin of forc-wing and hind and inner margins 
of hind-wing edged with ochre-yelloiu. Fore-wing : paler about inner- 
marginal area. Hind-wing : dull-crimson spot on anal-angular lobe 
conspicuous, and accompanied by two similar smaller (sometimes con- 
tiguous) spots between it and second median nervule; before these 
spots, between the same nervule and inner margin, two short, irregular, 
subangulated transverse blackish lines, interiorly edged with white, of 
which the outer line is often and the inner occasionally indistinct ; tail 
black, with a yellowish median streak in its basal half. 
$ Fuscous or fuscous-hroion ; blue very variable in brightness and 
extent^ and in some examiiles ivholly wanting ; when iiresent^ always paler 
and duller than in J. Hind-ioing : blue at its greatest development 
occupying a smaller area than in ^J, so that all the margins are more 
broadly fuscous. 
In both sexes the top and front of head are dark-red mixed with 
black, and marked with the following white spots, viz., two on fore- 
head, one at base of each antenna, and one on vertex ; eyes edged 
with white ; palpi black mixed with red, their middle joint externally 
white. Breast white and ferruginous mixed ; legs ferruginous mixed 
with black, the femora with white hairs, the tibige and tarsi conspi- 
cuously barred with white. 
From M. ficcdula this species is readily known by its want on the 
upper side of the apical hind-marginal ferruginous, and by presenting 
a brownish-grey instead of a ferruginous-brown under side ; it has, too, 
the tails of the hind-wing considerably narrower and shorter. The 
two latter characters also separate it from M. Silenus, Fab., of Western 
Africa, to which on the upper side some of the duller $ s of il/. dermap- 
tera bear considerable resemblance. There is in these $ s a complete 
gradation from individuals with the field of blue in the fore-wing quite, 
and in the hind-wing almost as much developed as in the to those in 
which even the few sprinkled scales of blue found in others are totally 
absent. 
Pupa. — Resembling that of M. ficedida. Dull-brown, paler along 
middle of back. Under side, including head and wing covers, dark 
olivaceous-brown. — Described from a drawing by Mr. (now Captain) 
H. C. Harford, who wrote in 1869 that he had found the larvae on a 
fig-tree near D' Urban. 
This curious Myrina seems to be extremely local, and but few specimens 
are seen in collections. During my stay in Natal I saw only one example, a 
