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branch of the median vein at a vory short distance from its origin ; tliis lliird branch con- 
siderably curved after its union with the lower diseocollular vein. 
" Fore legs of the male small and brush-like, densely hairy. The tarsus rather shorter than the 
tibia, cylindrical, cxarticulate, and destitute of ungues. Fore legs of the female consider- 
ably longer than those of the male, but articulated like the four hind feet. The tarsus 
armed with short spines beneath. The ungues curved, dilated at the base, horny, acute at 
the tips. Paronychia slender, membranous, bifid, finely setose ; the outer division acute, 
the inner one shorter and more triangular. Tulvillus broadly transverse, the base 
narrowed. 
" Four Jiind Ift/s moderately elongated, thickly clothed with scales. Femur hairy beneath. 
Tibia and tarsus armed beneath with short spines. Ungues and their appendages formed 
exactly as in the fore legs of the female. 
" Abdomen small, slender." ( Westwood, I. c.) 
Libytliea myrrha. 
Libytliea mi/rrha, Godart, Enc. Metli. ix. p. 171 (1819); Boisduval, Sp. Gen. i. pi. x. 
fig. 8 (18.3G) ; Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 15, pi. xii. fig. 4 (1846) ; de Niceville, 
Butt. lud. ii. p. 302 (1886). 
" Male. Fpperside : both wings deep vinous-brown, almost black, with tawny markings. Fore 
wing with a streak commencing narrowly at the base of the wing, occupying the lower half 
of the discoidal cell and upper half of the submedian interspace, extending beyond the cell to 
near the outer margin of the wing and occupying the entire width of the first median inter- 
space and the lower portion of the interspace above ; the streak outwardly broadly rounded, 
and widest at the end of the cell ; two subapical somewhat whitish spots placed obliquely, 
sometimes quite separated, sometimes joined into a band, each spot sometimes almost divided 
into two by the veins, sometimes with a small diffused whitish spot at the extreme apex of 
the wing. Hind wing with a broad disoal baud, wide and diffused at the abdominal margin, 
elsewhere well defined, and gradually narrowing towards the apex of the wing, which it does 
not quite reach, its apical extremity curved and deflected towards the outer margin. Under- 
side much paler. Fore wing with the tawny markings as above but paler, the discal streak 
wider, occupying almost the entire basal area of the cell, the apex irrorated with purplish. 
Hind wing with no tawny discal band, except as far as visible by transparencv, irrorated 
throughout with purplish, which assumes the form of a more or less distinct band across the 
disc, and another from the middle of the costa to the middle of the cell, the whole wing thicklv 
striated with dark brown. 
" Female. Paler throughout, the tawny markings larger. Cilia throughout ochreous-brown : 
aiitennoD, palpi, and body vinous-brown above, paler below. 
" Expanse 2-0 to 2-2 inches. 
" In the outer Himalayas L. mi/rrha is rare in the west, but much com- 
moner to the east, generally frequenting streams, and often settling (as docs 
also L. le])ita) at the end of a dead stick with folded wings, in \\liich ])ositi()n 
it exactly resembles a dead leaf." {de Niceville, I. c.) 
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