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F. E. Dempster obtained it at Lounghut during the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 
1889-90, only on low ground up to 1000 feet (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, p. 2). 
Capt. Watson also obtained specimens at Rangoon in August, Sittang, Tenasserim, 
in January, Beeling in April, Toungoo in March, Kyaikto, Tenasserim, in February, 
and in the Karen Hills, 500 to 1500 feet, in December. ‘It is very common in 
Hastern Karenee at 800 feet, in January’ (Dr. Manders, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 519). 
Mr. Ossian Limborg (P. Z. 8. 1878, 826) obtained it in Upper Tenasserim, at ‘‘ Mee- 
tan, 3000 feet, in April, at Moolai, 3000 to 6000 feet, and at Taoo, 3500 feet.” Capt. 
Bingham took it in the Thoungyeen forests. Signor Leonardo Fea obtained it in 
Bhamo in September. Mr. H. J. Elwes (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 419) records it from 
*“Tavoy in March.” Dr. J. Anderson (Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 1888, 32) 
obtained it in “* Mergui in December, and on King’s Island in January. 
ELYMNIAS FRATERNA (Plate 134, figs. 1, larva and pupa, la, b, c, d,e, ¢ 2). 
Elymnias fraterna, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 520, pl. 42, fig. 3, g. Moore, Lep. of 
Ceylon, i. p. 25, pl. 13, figs. la, b, ¢ 9 (1880). Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of India, ete. 
i. p. 268 (1883). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside dark purple-brown. Forewing with the exterior 
margin slightly tinged with purplish-ochreous ; crossed by a very obscurely-defined 
excurved subapical series of very small purplish-blue spots. Hindwing with a broad 
pale fulvous marginal band, and a submarginal series of paler spots. Underside 
dark chestnut-red; a triangular apical patch on forewing and the outer borders of 
both wings densely covered with confluent brownish-grey strige; the basal areas 
also with less numerous but more regularly disposed strigz ; a distinct bluish-white 
spot on anterior border of hindwing. 
Female. Upperside blackish purple-brown. Forewing with the basal and discal 
area rich ochreous ; a subapical oblique purplish-white vein-divided fascia and three 
lower submarginal spots, having the strigze on the underside visible by semi-trans- 
parency. Hindwing with the basal and discal area rich ochreous, the branches of 
the median vein and the abdominal area grey speckled, or the entire ochreous area 
is more or less covered with pale transverse strige ; a submarginal series of four 
large bluish-white round spots. Underside as in the male, but paler, the basal area 
slightly ochreous, and the strige on the borders more dense, prominent, and 
ochreous-white with ill-defined submarginal round spots ; costal bluish-white spot 
prominent. 
Expanse, ¢ 2,5 to 2;%, ? 3 to 3,% inches. 
Apur Caterritnar.—Hlongated ; thickenéd in the middle, pubescent ; head 
small, yellow, surmounted by two erect pink pubescent processes, anal segment also 
with hindwardly-divergent processes; colour green, with longitudinal yellow lines, 

