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MYRINA. By Dr. C. Aurivillitjs. 
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**. Veins C and 7 of the forewing rise separately from the same place. Wings above not red. Forewing 
above in the area 1 b at the margin with a black eye-spot curled whitish. 18. Leptomyrina. 
(k Forewing with 11 or 12 veins. 
*. Eyes with dense, long hair. Forewing with 11 veins. 19. Capys. 
**. Eyes bare. 
§. Middle and posterior tibiae with little spurs. Anterior tarsi of the J unjointed. Antennae 
longer than the thorax. 
o. The first subcostal vein (vein 11) of the forewing is united with the costal vein soon 
after its rise. 14. Chloroselas. 
oo. The first subcostal vein (vein 11) of the forewing runs quite separately. 
*. Vein 6 of the forewing rises separately from the apex of the discal cell. 
a. Palpi not or moderately compressed. Hindwing at vein 1 b nearly always angled, 
a'. Hindwing at the anal angle angled or tailed, rarely rounded off; forewing, 
however, in this case with 12 veins. Fringes of hindwings nearly always angled 
or undulate. (Anal lobe absent.) 20. Phasis. 
b\ Hindwing with a small anal lobe and with a short, extremely fine tail at the 
end of vein 1 b. Fringes of hindwings completely margined. Forewing only 
with 11 veins; vein 7 terminates into the apex of the wing. 
21. Crudaria. 
b. Palpi very much compressed. Hindwing at vein 1 b rounded off, completely 
margined. Forewing with 11 veins; vein 7 into the apex. 
23. Spalgis. 
**. Vein 6 of the forewing for some distance petioled with vein 7. 
1. Antennal club only gradually thickened. Palpi ending into a long point. Hind¬ 
wing at vein 1 b only with a short lobe. 22. Eriksonia. 
2. Antennal club distinctly defined, cylindrical, obtuse. The last joint of the palpi 
very short and rather obtuse. Hindwing at vein 1 b with a small fine tail. 
16. Desmolycaena. 
§§. Middle and posterior tibiae without spurs. Anterior tarsi of the <$ jointed as in the $ and 
armed with two claws. Forewing with 11 veins. Antennae not longer than the thorax. 
24. Arrugia. 
4. Genus: Myrina F. 
The Myrina- species are immediately recognizable by the formation of the hindwing and by the veins 
5 and 6 of the forewing rising from the same place. The eyes are bare; the antennae short and stout, by far 
not reaching the apex of the discal cell, gradually thickened with a distinctly defined club. Forewing with 
11 veins; vein 7 into the apex. Hindwing at the anal angle posteriorly extended with a long, broad tail-appen¬ 
dage at vein 1 b and with a feeble, narrow anal lobe on the inside of the small tail; at vein 2 without an appen¬ 
dage, or feebly angled at most. 
The larvae live on ficus-species and are often infested by ants; the joints 2 to 9 above in the 
middle bossy. 
Review of the Species. 
A. Wings beneath dark buff merging into a yellowish brown, a little behind the middle with a joint yellow 
transverse line, on the forewing sometimes only distinct at the costal margin, on the hindwing as far as 
vein 2 almost straight, but then rectangularly broken towards the proximal margin. Both wings above 
in the basal half or beyond the middle of a bright blue. Forehead on each side covered with ferruginous 
bristly hair. 
a. Forewing above in the black marginal part with a broad, ferruginous transverse band not reaching, 
however, the margin, or blackish without markings. M. silenus. 
(k Forewing above at the margin itself very broadly ferruginous. M. ficedula. 
B. Wings beneath monotonously brownish-grey or blackish-grey; forewing unmarked; hindwing far behind 
the middle with an irregularly broken or serpentine black transverse line and with submarginal spots in 
1 b to 2. Forehead black with white lateral spots or lateral margins. 
a. Hindwing beneath without hemoclirome spots, or only with traces of such a spot in 1 c. 
*. The transverse line of the hindwing beneath is broken up into 8 black, rounded spots of the areas 
1 b to 7 and almost rectangularly broken at vein 5. M. sharpei. 
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