ae 
ELYMNIINZ. 161 
MELYNIAS SAUERI (Plate 140, figs. 2, 2a, ¢ 9). 
Elymnias Saueri, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 65, pl. 9. fig. 3, ¢(1882). Marshall and de Nicéville, 
Butt. of India, ete. i. p. 274 (1883), @. 
Elymnias Kiinstleri, Honrath, Berlin Ent. Zeitschr. 1885, p. 276, pl. 8, fig. 3, 9. Distant, Rhop. 
Malayana, p. 422, pl. 41, fig. 9 (1886), 2. 
Imaco.—Male. ‘“ Upperside. Forewing dark violaceous-brown, with paler blue 
suffusions on apical area; with a submarginal series of five pale violaceous-blue 
spots, and three discal smaller indistinct spots ; costal margin basally speckled with 
ereyish strigs and apical bluish spots. Hindwing castaneous brown, the basal area 
fuscous. Underside pale ferruginous, thickly mottled with dark chocolate-brown 
strige, which are irregular in shape and size. Forewing with the costal margin 
speckled with grey; the upper part of the cell and apical area somewhat paler in 
hue, and with indications of a dark-waved fascia near the cell. Hindwing somewhat 
darker, the strigze being more numerous and contiguous, with indications of a much- 
waved and irregular dark fascia crossing the wing about end of the cell, and a more 
or less distinct broad submarginal fascia, followed by several waved, broken, and 
indistinct lines ” (Distant, J. c. 65). 
Female. ‘ Upperside greyish-white. Forewing with greyish-blue reflections in 
the cell and pale ochraceous shadings on inner marginal area; costa more or less 
spotted and marked with blackish, thickly so to end of the cell, and some similar 
markings in the cell along the median vein ; veinlets ornamented with fuscous and 
blackish blotches, the three median veinlets and the lower discoidal veinlet most 
prominently so. J/indwing with the basal and abdominal areas more or less shaded 
with pale ochraceous ; veins with black and fuscous blotches as on forewing, but less 
prominent; a blackish spot uniting the discoidal and upper median veinlets; a 
submarginal series of irregular-shaped blackish spots, between which and the 
posterior margin are many wavy fuscous and black irregularly-shaped and placed 
linear spots. Forewing as above, but more uniformly greyish, the shadings along 
the veins much more broken and unrelieved by fuscous-brown ; several curved black 
lines crossing the cell. Hindwing generally as above” (Distant, J. c. 422), 
Expanse, ¢ 3,%, ? 4;% inches. 
Hasirat.—Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula. 
The male is a mimic of the same sex of the Eupleine Trepsichrois Linnzi,* 
and the female, apparently, is a mimic of the Limnaine butterfly Hestia Agamar- 
schana, or H. Donovani. 
DistripuTION.—A male of this species, taken by Capt. Bingham in the Thoung- 
yeen Valley, Tenasserim, is in the British Museum collection. The male type 

* See vol. i. plate 35, and plate 4, fig. 1. 
vol. 1. July 22nd, 1893. y 
