ELYMNIIN 2. 167 
broadly dull blue-black, the extreme edge of the exterior margin lunularly speckled 
with bluish-grey scales ; the lower half of the cell, a streak beyond the cell, and the 
inner interspaces of the median veins to the abdominal margin white, thus forming 
a large white lower basal area; glandular tuft of hairs within the cell pale brownish- 
ochreous. Underside dull white; veins black lined. Forewing numerously covered 
with black strige, which are broadest and partly confluent on the basal area, par- 
tially absent across the disc and more slender but less densely packed on the outer 
area. Hindwing with the basal third and the outer border decreasing to anal angle 
more densely covered with confluent black strige, the upper discal interspaces 
being ochreous-white, bare of strige, and the lower interspaces broadly also bare, 
but of a chrome-yellow colour; between the base of the internal and lower median 
vein is ared patch. Clothing of body above and palpi tipt with bluish-grey; head 
above and thorax beneath with white spots; collar white; legs above bluish-grey, 
beneath brown ; antennz brown above, ochreous beneath. 
Female. Wings somewhat longer than in male. Upperside paler. Forewing 
with the longitudinal streaks duller, less prominent, and more diffused. Hindwing 
with the outer band traversed by broad transverse grey strige. Underside as in 
the male, but with all the strigz more slender and uniformly disposed. 
Expanse, ¢ 3,%, % 3,% inches. 
Hasirat.—Sikkim. 
This very peculiarly marked species is a mimic of the common Pierine butterfly 
Delias pasithoe. 
Disrrisution.—Specimens in Mr. O. Miller’s collection, now in the possession 
of the Hon. W. Rothschild, were taken in Sikkim from June to October. The late 
W.S. Atkinson obtained it in Sikkim. Mr. L. de Nicéville obtained it in “ Sikkim 
at low elevations, in October” (J. A. 8. Beng. 1882, 56). Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. 
Ent. Soc. 1888, 331) records it as ‘‘ not uncommon in the low valleys of Sikkim, 
at 1000 to 2000 feet, from May to October.” 
MIMADELIAS DEVA. (Plate 142, figs. 2, 2a, 9). 
Iwaco.—Male. Upperside. Forewing with much broader and paler grey 
streaks between the veins, these being entire from the base of wing to the outer 
border. Hindwing with a narrower outer marginal band, the upper portion being 
composed of the broad black ends of the veins. Underside. Forewing whiter, with 
similarly, but less dense black striga. Hindwing with similar basal marks, narrow 
strigose outer border, and bright ochreous medial and lower area; red spot dis- 
tinct. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing with similar broad but duller bluish-grey streak 
