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traversed by a submarginal series of four large white round spots, the inner basal 
area being ochreous, intersected by the brown radial and median veinlets. Underside 
paler and more suffused chestnut-red than in the male, the basal area of an ochreous 
tint, with numerous paler ochreous or cinerescent-ochreous transverse strige, which 
are very broad and are palest on the lower basal area of the forewing; the costal 
border, apical patch and outer border of the forewing, and outer border of the hind- 
wing, more or less thickly covered with transverse lilacine-white, or ochreous-white, 
strige ; the subcostal white spot on hindwing more or less prominent, or sometimes 
absent. 
Expanse, d 2,% to 3,7, ? 3;% to 3; inches. 
Aputt CaTerritiar.—Hlongate, fusiform, setose ; green, with longitudinal dorsal 
and lateral yellow lines, and a subdorsal row of yellow elongated yellow spots which 
are centred with red and posteriorly edged with blue; head brownish, armed 
with two erect brownish setose processes; anal seement also with two red slender 
hindward-projecting processes. (Described from a drawing reproduced on our 
plate, made in Allipur, Lower Bengal, by the late Mr. Arthur Grote’s native artist.) 
Curysalis.—Similar to H. fraterna and EH. caudata. 
Hasirat.—Western and Eastern Himalayas; Assam; Eastern and Lower 
Bengal ; Central India. 
The female of H. wndularis is an excellent mimic of the common Limnaine 
butterfly, Salatura Genutia.* 
Distrisution.—“ This is the common Elymnias of Northern India. It is 
commen in the warm valleys of the outer Himalayas, as far west as Masuri. In 
Bengal, where the rainfall is heavy, it extends into the plains, and is found in 
Assam, Silhet, Hastern Bengal, and along the Hast Coast as far South as Raja- 
mundry on the Godaveri, and it also occurs in the Deccan. It affects bush jungle 
and shady undergrowth” (Butt. Ind. 267). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it in 
Kumaon at “ Ranibagh at the foot of the outer hills, at 1000 feet elevation ”’ 
(J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 120). Mr. H. J. Elwes records it as being “found in 
Sikkim from the Terai up to 3000 feet more or less commonly at all seasons of 
the year” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 330). Mr. J. Wood-Mason “obtained twenty-seven 
males and two females in the forests around Silcuri, in Cachar, between April and 
August, being most common in June and July. The males emit a strong odour 
resembling vanilla, but the females are scentless” (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 352). 
The late Capt. Mortimer Slater found it ‘‘not uncommon at Dacea, flying in a 
weak, hovering manner, generally over the damp pits formerly used by the muslin 
manufacturers”? (MS. Notes). It is “very common at Calcutta, settling on the 
* See vol. i. Plate 10, figs. 1b, c. 
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