158 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA, 
Of our ‘illustrations of this species on Plate 188, figs. 2, 2a, b, male and female, 
are reproduced from the figures above quoted. 
MELYNIAS TIMANDRA (Plate 139, figs. 1, la, b,c, f 9): 
Elymnias Timandra, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond. 1869, p. 326. Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 
1871, p. 522. Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of India, ete. i. p. 275 (1883). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside dark purpurescent-brown. Forewing with some pro- 
minent bluish-grey strigz at base of the costa, and some quadrate spots towards the 
apex ; a violescent-blue or verditer-blue broad streak within the cell and a longitu- 
dinal streak disposed between the veins ; the two upper streaks below the subcostal 
being slender, the next also slender but broadly lobate at end of the cell, the three 
next broadest at their inner end and somewhat lobate at their outer end, the posterior 
margin also with a narrow streak. Hindwing with a similarly-disposed but much 
paler and less sharply defined streak between the veins, the outer streaks broadest 
at their discal end, the ends being indented, and are each opposed to an opposite 
submarginal lunular-spot, these streaks and spots being mottled with brown speckles ; 
glandular tuft cimereous-brown. Underside densely covered with dark purplish- 
brown transverse strigee, and intervening purpurescent-cinereous strigew, the dark 
strigze most dense and more confluent on the basal half and the onter margin, the 
pale strigze most dense and confluent on the discal area. T’horax and abdomen above 
speckled with verditer-blue scales; spots on the head above, collar, and sides of palpi 
whitish ; antennze brown above, ochreous beneath. 
Female. Upperside paler brown, the markings as in male; those on the fore- 
wing paler and of a violaceous-blue, paling to ochreous-cinereous posteriorly, and 
those on the hindwing also ochreous-cinereous. Underside less densely but more 
uniformly covered with slender dark-brown strigze and broader confluent pur- 
purescent-white strigex. 
Expanse, ¢ 3 to 3,4, ? 3% inches. 
Hasirat.—Sikkim ; Silhet; Arakan ; Tenasserim. 
This species is a mimic of the Limnaine butterfly, Parantica Aglea.* 
Distripurion.—Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 321) records a “ single 
specimen of the female, apparently agreeing with Timandra, taken in Sikkim by Mr. 
Otto Moller’s collector at Singla, in April, 1887.” The late W. 8. Atkinson obtained 
it in Silhet. ‘ The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has it from Silhet. Capt. Bingham 
took a male in the Donat range in Tenasserim in April, and one female was taken 
at Kanhlete in September, by Major Adamson” (Butt. Ind. 275). Obtained by 


* See vol. i. pl. 13. 
