148 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
trunks of the Corypha” (Capt. Chaumette, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1865, 38). Mr. J. 
Rothney records the ‘male common and the female rare at Barrackpur, near 
Calcutta, settling in dense foliage close to the trunk” (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1882, 34). 
Mr. L. de Nicéville also found it ‘‘a common species in Calcutta, the larva feeding 
on Palmacee” (J. A. 8. Beng. 1885, 43). The late Mr. A. Grote found the larva 
at Allipur in the.district of Calcutta, feeding on the Rattan and on Corypha. (MS. 
Notes.) In Orissa, it is recorded by Mr. Taylor (List, p. 3) as ‘‘not common at 
Khurda.” 
Of the illustrations on our Plate 183, fig. 1 is a reproduction of the original 
drawing of the larva found at Alhpur, by Mr. A. Grote, now in our possession ; 
and figs. la, b, ec, represent the male and female. 
ELYMNIAS TINCTORIA (Plate 133, figs. 2, 2a, b, 3 2). 
Elymnias tinctoria, Moore, Proe. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 826, ¢. Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. 
of India, etc. i. p. 267 (1883). Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 1888, p. 32. 
Tvaco.—Male. Upperside dark purpurescent bluish-black. Forewing with the 
excurved series of blue spots larger and broader throughout than in typical H. wndu- 
laris, in some the upper spots are conjoined, and the lower touch the outer margin. 
Hindwing with the outer border dusky, suffused purplish chestnut-red, the sub- 
marginal spots indistinctly whitish, or the two upper pale blue. 
Female. Upperside similar to #. undularis, except that on the forewing the 
bluish-black costal and outer border is comparatively broader, and consequently, the 
ochreous inner-area more restricted ; the lower white spots are smaller, and the three 
submarginal spots on the hindwing are also smaller. Undersides of both sexes 
similar. 
Expanse, ¢ 2,5 to 3, % 3 to 3;% inches. 
Hapirat.—Burma; Tenasserim. 
The female of EH. tinctoria is more like that sex of the Javan form (H. Pro- 
togenia) than to H. undularis, m the broad breadth of the dark borders, but the 
Javan females have even a broader border to the forewing, than in tinctoria, and 
consequently the ochreous area is still more restricted, and, it may be noted, that 
the tint of the ochreous colour on both wings of the Javan female is more intense 
and dusky, agreeing in this intensity of colour, with that occurring in the Javan 
Eupleid, Salatura intensa, and of which the female of E. Protogenia is a mimic. 
Distripution.—‘* Very common throughout Burma, at all times” (Major Adam- 
son, List, p. 10). Specimens in Capt. H. Y. Watson’s collections were captured during 
the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90, at “‘ Pauk Yaw, in October and November, 
and at Tilin from November to May” (Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 36). Mr. 
