162 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
described by Mr. Distant, was captured in Province Wellesly, Malay Peninsula, by 
Mr. Saiier, and the above assigned female, in Perak, by Mr. Kiinstler. 
Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 140, fig. 2, 2a, male and female, 
both are copied from Mr. Distant’s figures above quoted. 
MELYNIAS PATNA (Plate 141, figs. 1, la, 3). 
Melanitis Patna, Westwood, Gen. of D. Lep. p. 405, pl. 68, fig. 2 (1851). 
Elymnias Patna, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. EH. I. Compy. i. p. 238 (1857). Wallace, Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1869, p. 327. 
Dyctis Patna, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, 1871, p. 525. Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of India, 
ete. 1. p. 277 (1883). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside dark velvety blackish purple-brown ; cilia alternately 
edged with white. Morewing with the outer area glossed with dark violaceous-blue, 
and crossed by a curved discal series of elongated purplish-blue streaks, which 
commence from middle of the costal edge, and decrease posteriorly; the streak 
disposed between the lower radial and upper median being more or less very 
obsolescent, slender, lobate, and obscurely extending in a lobe to end of the cell. 
Hindwing paler externally, with the apical area glossed with violaceous-blue ; 
crossed by a submarginal series of four distinct white dots; the glandular tuft of 
hairs at the base pale ochreous-brown. Underside uniformly paler brown. Forewing 
with the costal edge flecked with bluish-white strigze ; the discal area with numerous 
transverse very obscurely-defined brownish-cinereous strigz, and a submarginal row 
of three bluish-white dots. Hindwing with a submarginal curved series of seven 
bluish-white spots, the upper one disposed between the subcostals; the outer 
border being flecked with cinereous: striga. Head above and thorax beneath 
spotted with white ; collar and streak on sides of palpi also white. 
Female. Upperside paler. Morewing as in the male, except that the elongated 
purple-blue streaks are larger, longer, and more diffused, the submarginal streaks 
each with a slightly-defined outer central white dot. Hindwing as in male. 
Underside also paler ; markings as in the male. 
Expanse, ¢ 3 to 3,%, 2 3; inches. 
Hapirar.— Western and Eastern Himalayas ; Cachar; Silhet; Burma. 
This species is a mimic, both in form, colour, and general markings, of the 
Hupleeine butterflies Stictoplea binotata,* and Isamia splendens. 
Disrripution.—Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. 8. Beng. 1886, 120) records “‘ two males, 
taken at Garjiaghat, near the junction of the Kali and the Gori, astern Kumaon, at 
2500 feet. They do not differ from Sikkim specimens.” The late W. 5S. Atkinson 

* See vol. i. plate 53, figs. 2, 2a. 
