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with olivescent-brown; on the hindwing is a submarginal series of small blackish 
points and a bluish-white apical spot situated between the subcostals. 
Female brighter coloured, the marginal bands more prominent. Underside 
as in the male. 
Expanse, 3 to 3,5, inches. 
Hasirar.—Ceylon. 
This species is probably a mimic of the Eupleeine butterfly Pademma Sinhala, 
Disrrreution.—* A scarce butterfly, except at the Peradeniya Gardens. The 
larva feeds on a species of palm-tree ’’ (Mackwood MS. Notes). 
MELYNIAS PEALII (Plate 138, figs. 2, 2a, b,d 2). 
Elymnias Pealit, Wood-Mason, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1883, p. 62, pl. 2, figs. A, B, 3. 
Dyctis Peali, Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of India, etc. i. p. 276 (1883). Doherty, Journ. 
Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 124, pl. x. fig. 3, 2. 
TIvaco.—Male. Upperside purpurescent black, darkest basally, with the mark- 
ings deep lavender-blue; cilia alternated with greyish-white. Forewing with an 
oblique subapical band and a continuous submarginal series of rather faint and 
diffused blotches, and the extreme apex lavender-blue ; the costa also transversely 
striated with lavender-blue. Hindwing with a curved submarginal lavender-blue 
band, which is very prominent, and is composed of coarse strige extending from 
the apex to the lower median vein, and ends in a purple patch at the anal angle. 
Underside much as in #. widularis and its allies, but more richly coloured. 
Female. ‘Upperside. Both wings tinted with blue instead of violet. Forewing 
with the subcostal band very obscure, the cell dark, the dise pale. Hindwing with a 
conspicuous rufous-orange anal spot occupying the entire breadth of the submedian 
interspace, the violet submarginal band of the male replaced by a broad bluish 
fascia extending over the disc to before the apex. Underside with the entire fore- 
wing, except the cell and outer margin clouded with large violet-blue strigew, and 
so also is the apical and part of the discal area of the hindwing” (Doherty, J. c. 
p- 124). 
- Hxpanse, d 3,, ? 3) inches. 
Hapirat.—Assam. 
Disrrizution.—The male type specimen was “ captured by Mr. 8S. E. Peal at 
Aideo, Sibsagar district, Assam” (W. Mason, J. c. p. 62). Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. 8. 
Bengal, 1889, 124), records it from “‘ Sadiya and Margherita, Upper Assam, between 
August and December.” According to Mr. H. J. Elwes (P. Z. S. 1891, 269), Mr. 
Doherty also took ‘‘ a single specimen at Margherita in May.” 
