150 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
the subdorsal ornamented with some chrome-yellow spots, and the fifth to eighth 
segments with a red and blue spot. Feeds on Palmacee. 
Curysatis.—Green, with longitudinal yellow streaks bordered by red streaks or 
spots ; head and thorax truncate in front, with three short tubercles. 
Hasitat.—Ceylon. 
The male of H. fraterna is a much paler and differently coloured insect, on the 
upperside, from the same sex of H. wndularis; the female also having broader and 
darker borders on the upperside, and the hindwing of the latter sex has the ochreous 
area always more or less partially or entirely covered with pale striga. The female 
of this species is also a mimic of the Limnaine butterfly, Salatura Genutia. 
Disrrieution.—According to Capt. Wade ‘it occurs at Galle and also about 
Kandy.” Mr. F. M. Mackwood notes that it is a “low country species, and generally 
abundant.” Capt. Yerbury recently obtained it at Trincomali, in July and October. 
ELYMNIAS CAUDATA (Plate 135, figs. 1, la, larva and pupa, lb, c, d, 3 9). 
Elymnias caudata, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 520, pl. 42, fig. 4, ¢. Marshall and de 
Nicéville, Butt. of India, ete. i. p. 270 (1883). Hampson, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1888, 
p- 351. Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 268, pl. A. figs. 2, 2a, 
larva and pupa. 
Tiraco.—Male. Upperside. Forewing dark velvety purple-brown, bluish-black 
in some lights; with an oblique subapical bluish-white band and three lower 
submarginal oval spots, the upper spot being disposed inwardly-oblique, and 
the lower spot outwardly-oblique, the strigze of the underside being visible by 
semi-transparency on the band; no glandular patch. Hindwing paler purple- 
brown, darkest at the base; glandular tuft within the cell cinereous-brown ; 
crossed by a more or less broad discal fulyous band, which is intersected by 
the brown veins and generally traversed by small paler or sometimes nearly white 
submarginal spots, and occasionally the dark strigz of the underside are visible on 
the band. Underside dark chestnut-brown, the basal area with several very 
obscurely-defined brownish-grey strige. Forewing with a prominent apical triangular 
patch, and an irregular submarginal fascia composed of confluent pinkish cinereous- 
white strige. Hindwing with a broad outer fascia or the entire border very densely 
covered with more or less confluent pinkish cinereous-white strige ; the ordinary 
submarginal spots being indicated by small dark brown or white centred points. 
Body beneath, palpi, and legs pale brown; legs beneath cinereous; antennz dark 
brown with a pale ochreous tip. 
Female. Upperside with paler purplish-brown outer borders, the inner area 
dull ochreous. Forewing with the subapical bluish-white band and lower spots as in 
the male. Hindwing with the costal and outer border, and the veins, broadly paler 
brown; the inner area, and streaks between the veins obscurely merging into the 
