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5. El THALIA ELICIUS, n 8 p., PI. D, Fig. 8, 6- 

 Habitat : Burma. 



Expanse : 6 , 2*5 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, <W/< icings rich glossy bronzy brown. 

 Forewing with a narrow black line towards the base of the discoidal 

 cell, a double line across the middle and extending just below it, a 

 similar double line closing- the cell ; a discal waved line, and a very- 

 indistinct submarginal (outer discal) similar line. Hindwing with a 

 double black line at the end of the cell, discal and submarginal lines 

 as in the forewing, the abdominal margin pale. Underside, both 

 wings ochreous, gradually increasing in intensity towards the outer 

 margins of the wings. Forewing with the markings in the cell as on 

 the upperside, the two discal lines very faint. Hindwing marked as 

 above, but all the markings partially obliterated. 



E. elicius appears to be nearest to E. jahnu, Moore (the male de- 

 scribed as a distinct species by Moore as sananda), with which it agrees 

 almost exactly in the markings of the upperside except that they 

 are rather less distinct ; but it entirely lacks the vinous suffusion 

 which is such a marked and peculiar character in E. jahnu. On the 

 underside also the markings are similar though much less prominent, 

 but the ground-colour is of a much less ferruginous shade and is 

 altogether paler. E. elicius reminds one a little of Distant's figure* 

 of E. parta, Moore, but does not at all resemble Moore's original 

 figure of that species. 



A single example taken at Myitta, Burma, in February, is deposit- 

 ed in the Phayre Museum, Rangoon. 



Family LEMONIID.^. 

 Subfamily Libytll/Ein.*:. 



6. LIBYTHEA GEOFFROYI, Godart, PI. D, Fig. 5, a . 



L. geoffroy, Godart, Euc Meth., vol. ix, p. 813, n. 5-6 (1823) j idem, id., Mem. 

 Soc. Linn. Par., vol. ii, Lep., pi. ii (1823) ; L. geoffroyi, Wallace, Trans. Enfc. Soc. 

 Lond., 1869, p. 335, n. 4; id , Kirby, Syn. Cat. Dinrn. Lep., p. 283, n. 8 (1871). 

 Habitat: Java (Godart), Timor, Flores (Wallace); Burma. 

 Expanse: 6,9, 2*4 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, forewing brownish-fuscous ; the 

 posterior two- thirds of the discoidal cell and the basal two-thirds 

 of the wing from the third median nervule to the inner margin 

 * Ehop. Malay., p. 437, n. 18, pi. xxxvii, Eg. 7, male (1886). 



