156 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
pl. 6, figs. 4, 5, ¢% (1882). Habitat. Malay Peninsula; Sumatra ; Borneo.— HF. 
Dara, Distant, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 50. Habitat. N. Borneo.—H. Albofas- 
ciata, Staudinger, Iris, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. Lep. 1889, p. 39. Habitat. Palewan.— 
H. Enganica, Doherty, J. A. S. Beng. 1891, p. 24. Habitat. Engano Island, 
Sumatra. 
Genus MELYNIAS. 
Elymnias (part), Hubner Verz. p. 37 (1816). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 236 (1857). 
Butler, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 519. Scudder Proc, Amer. Acad. A. Sci. Boston, 1875, 161. Distant, 
Rhop. Malay, p. 58 (1882). Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of India, ete. i. p. 264 (1883). 
Imaco.—Male. Forewing somewhat elongate, triangular; costa much arched, 
apex obtusely rounded, exterior margin oblique and scalloped, posterior margin 
slightly convex ; costal vein swollen at the base ; first and second subcostal emitted 
before end of the cell; the cell broad ; discocellulars inwardly-oblique, lower concave ; 
to upper medians originating from end of cell. Hindwing short, obtusely ovate, 
anterior margin regularly convex, exterior margin convex, scalloped and subeaudate 
at end of upper median; cell extending to nearly half the wing, rather narrow ; 
discocellulars inwardly-oblique, much recurved, radial from above the middle; two 
upper medians from end of cell; glandular patch and tuft within the cell, as in 
Klymnias. 
Typs.—M. Laiss 
The species of this genus are mimics of the Eupleine genera Parantica, 
Caduga, Trepsichrois, and Hestia. 
MELYNIAS SINGALA (Plate 138, figs. 1, la, bd 9). 
Elymnias Singala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 568; id. Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 26, pl. 138, 
figs. 2, 2a, ¢ 9 (1880). 
Dyctis Singala, Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of India, ete. i. p. 277 (1883). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside dark olivaceous purpurescent-brown ; cilia alternated 
with pale olivescent-cinereous. Forewing with a marginal macular band formed of 
pale olive-grey speckled quadrate spots; a few olivescent-ochreous strige along 
the costa; no glandular patch. Hindwing with a broad submarginal band composed 
of transversely-disposed more or less confluent olive-grey strigee ; glandular tuft 
within cell cinerescent-brown. Underside paler purplish-brown; covered with 
blackish strigze, which are most numerous on the basal half, and along the extreme 
outer margins; the submarginal area being broadly covered with densely packed 
pinkish-grey strige, forming a broad fascia which is more or less inwardly suffused 
