166 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
ihe upperside and there covering a scabrous glandular patch of scales situated below the 
submedian vein, a tuft of fine erectile hairs arising from the inner end of the patch, and 
enclosed within the fold. Veins as in Elymnias. Hindwing obtusely-ovate, the 
costa much arched at the base, exterior margin convex and scalloped, but not cau- 
date, the anal angle rounded. Cell shorter and broader, the discocellular outwardly- 
oblique, nearly straight; other veins and also the glandular patch and tuft of hairs 
within the cell, as in Elymnias. 
'l'ype.—M. Vasudeva. 
The species of this genus are mimics of the Pierine butterflies of the genus 
Delias. 
Hasits; AND Foop piant or Caterrintar.— According to the observations 
of Capt. Godfery (Distant Rhop. Malay. 423) the species of this genus (MM. 
Godferyi) found in the Malay Peninsula, was captured ‘hovering with some- 
what feeble flight over the high banks separating the road from the adjacent 
forest.” Mr. Distant also records (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 50) on the authority 
of Mr. W. B. Pryer, that in North Borneo the larva of this same species (God- 
feryi) “feeds on an Orchid—a specimen of this orchid hanging in my verandah 
attracted two or three females, and a caterpillar feeding on the orchid was bred up 
and produced the male butterfly. This butterfly may be described as rare, but is 
probably common enough 150 feet above ground amongst the tree tops, where only 
the orchid grows.” 
MIMADELIAS VASUDEVA (Plate 142, figs. 1, la, b,e,¢ ?). 
Elymnias Vasudeva, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy. 1. p. 238 (1857). Wallace, Trans. Ent. 
Soe. Lond, 1869, p. 327. 
Dyctis Vasudeva, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 525. Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of 
India, ete. i. p. 278, pl. xvii. fig. 61, ¢ (1883). 
Elymnias Thycana, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, p. 323, 8 2. 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside. Forewing dull black, glossed with indigo-blue ; 
some bluish-grey strigze along the costal edge, a bluish-grey broad fusiform cell- 
streak cut by the discocellulars, below which are three longitudinal median diseal 
streaks, and beyond is an excurved outer decreasing series of six small streaks, 
the cell and discal streaks being, generally, narrowed at their outer end, and 
joined to the opposite outer streak, and the extreme outer margin also lunularly 
speckled with bluish scales; posterior margin with the middle portion folded over 
upon the upperside and there covering a scabrous glandular patch of scales situated 
below the submedian vein, a tuft of fine erectile hairs arising from the inner end of the 
patch, and enclosed within the fold, the inner surface of the fold being white, and 
the tuft brownish-ochreous. Hindwing with the costal border and exterior margin 
