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Major C. H. E. Adamson in “ Arakan and Tenasserim in September, February, 
April and May, but it is very rare in Burma” (List of Burmese Butt., p. 10). Mr. 
A. R. Wallace records it from “ Moulmein” (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1869, 326). 
MELYNIAS MALELAS (Plate 140, figs. 1, la, b, ¢ 2). 
Melanitis Malelas, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. me/. pl. 1, figs. 6,7, ¢ (1863). 
Elymnias Malelas, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, p, 327. 
Melanitis leucocyma, Boisdaval ; Doubleday, Catal. Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. i. p. 144 (1844), Westwood, 
Gen. D. Lep. p. 404 (1851) nee Godart.* 
Elymnias leucocyma, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus, E. I. Compy. i. p. 238 (1857). Wallace, Trans. Ent. 
Soc. 1869, p. 326. Butler, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1871, p. 522. Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of 
India, ete. i. p. 273, pl. xvii. fig. 60, ¢ 2 (1883). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside dark velvety blackish purple-brown. Cilia alter- 
nately edged with white. Forewing darkest, the outer two-thirds brilliantly glossed 
with steel-blue in some lights; costal edge with several short pale-blue strigze ; an 
excurved submarginal series of violet-blue spots, of which there are five, the lower 
being rounded, the two upper oval and Jonger ; sometimes an incipient slender sub- 
costal upper spot is also shghtly indicated ; three similar blue smaller spots also on the 
disc, another just beyond end of the cell, and a more or less defined slender speckled 
streak extending to near each of the upper outer spots, the lowest and sometimes the 
middle spot being slender and extending towards the outer lower spots. Hindwing 
paler externally, with a purpurescent tinge ; with, or without, an obscure sub- 
marginal series of small violet-grey speckled lunules; the basal tuft of hairs 
cinereous-brown. Underside uniformly paler brown, undulated with short trans- 
verse cinereous-ochreous strige, which are most densely disposed externally and 
more or less obsolescent, or absent basally ; the costa of both wings being also more 
prominently edged with whiter strige, and the base of the hindwing with three 
superposed white spots. Head above, and thorax beneath spotted with white; 
collar beneath also white; clothing of palpi above and beneath tipt with white; legs 
white speckled; antennz brown. 
Female. Upperside paler. orewing as in the male, except that the glossy blue 

* Godart’s leucocyma (Enc. Méth. ix. p. 325) is described by him as having “ absolately the appear- 
ance and shape of ‘ wndularis,’ the upperside of the wings of a blackish-brown, with a band of pale blue- 
violet spots on border of the forewing, and a row of ashy points on the border of the hindwing. Underside 
deep brown, with a multitude of small greyish-waves, more powdered on the hindwing than on the forewing. 
Habitat, Java.” I am indebted to Mr. P. C. T. Snellen, of Rotterdam, for directing my attention to 
Godart’s species (in a letter dated Feb. 2, 1890), wherein he says that ‘‘ Lewcocyma of Godart is not found 
in Java, where only the typical wndularis form with its very different female occurs. I have leucocyma 
from Sumatra, Banea, Billiton, and Flores, the female resembling the male.” 
