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Show 606 MR. H. H. DRUCE ON BORNEAN LYCEENIDEE. [June 18, base, partly resting on the subcostal nervure and extending upwards to the costal nervure, and lying over that is a tuft of long hairs, which are attached to the membrane of the wdng below the glandular patch and the subcostal nervure. The female possesses the same number of subcostal nervules as the male. The tail on the submedian nervure is rather long and broad, whilst that on the first median nervule is short and thread-like. Type, Myrina martinet, H e w. This is I believe the first genus described amongst the Lyceenidee in which the male possesses both the glandular patch and the tuft of hairs on the hind wing, and these characters serve at once to distinguish it from all others. Hewitson in describing his Myrina martinet noted its peculiarities, but no writer has since referred to them. I have compared it with Tajuria, but probably it is more nearly allied to Neocheritra, Distant, which differs by possessing an additional subcostal nervule in the fore wing (in the male) and a tuft of hairs on fore wing below. In pattern and coloration Neocheritra and Pseudomyrina are much alike. PSEUDOMYRINA MARTINA. Myrina martinet, H e w . 111. Diurn. Lep., Lye. Suppl. p. 3, t. 2. figs. 70, 71 (1869). Sithon martina, Druce, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 351. 2 . Upperside brown, wdth white markings at the anal angle. Much like that sex of Neocheritra theodora (see p. 608), but wdth the tails considerably shorter. Underside as male. Kina Balu ( Waterstr.) ; Labuan (Low and Waterstr.). O n the underside this species closely resembles Neocheritra amrita, Feld., and N. theodora, mihi, but can be distinguished by the brown bar over the spots at the anal angle becoming broader and straighter as it reaches the inner margin, which is not so in the species mentioned '. VIRGARINA, gen. nov. Allied to Pseudomyrina. With three branches to the subcostal nervure of the fore wing as in that genus, tbe third, however, being emitted sooner and consequently longer. Upperside of fore wing with a large elongate-oval glandular patch below the median nervure, placed obliquely across the wing and divided 1 Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection contains male specimens of P. hypo- Icuca, Hew., from Malang and Lawang-both in Java-which on examination prove to belong to Pseudomyrina. They possess tails of about the same length as P. martina, but rather slighter; that on the submedian nervure being white, that on the first median nervule black with white tip, and white fringe. Dr. Staudinger has sent specimens of P. hypoleuca from Java under the name •' mamerta," Staud., but I do not know where he has described it. H e has also sent m e for examination the type female of his Sithon palilalia, which I find is identical with the female of C. martina, Hew. |