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with black head, horns, and tail processes; in the full-grown larvae on the 

 general pale green colour occurs a double golden-yellow dorsal line and in 

 addition on either side tree similar longitudinal lines, the upper one being 

 widest and dilating at several of the rings to yellow spots which in turn contain 

 some orange, and sometimes even dark green, smaller spots. Ihe colour varies 

 somewhat in different individuals. The head is of a handsome pale brown or 

 sometimes yellow and has two setose horns of the same colour, between which 

 occur two vertical white or yellow stripes which curve downward, each behind 

 either horn. The hinder portion of the body terminates in two long setose 

 processes which may be either green, bright orange, or pale brown and which 

 receive the forementioned wide longitudinal lines on either side of the double 

 dorsal line. The larva does not, therefore, differ essentially from the Indian one 

 figured by Moore and probably pertains to the same species. The pupa possesses 

 the form, already alluded to, peculiar to the genus, and in colour resembles 

 the larva in a remarkable manner. It is suspended so close against leaves 

 that one would imagine it was attached by means a girdle thread. A chrysalis 

 of March 12''^ produced the butterfly on the 20"* of the same month. My 

 figures are very successful and fairly agree with those of Moore. 



2. EsAKA Hew. (PI. XVIII, fig. 64a, 64(J). 



Hewitson, Exo/. Bidterfl., Ill, Melaniiis,/ig. 5 (1863). Melanitis Esaka. 

 Moore, Joum. Lmn. Soc. of London, XXI, /. ZTi'^pl- 3. 



fiff. 5 (1885) Dyctis Andersonii. 



Fruhstorfer, Ent. Nadir., XX, /. 21 (1894) ■ • Elymnias Maheswara. 

 Stett. Ent. Zci/., 1894, /. 124, //. 4, 



fig- 1 "i 



Moore, Lep. hid., 11,/. xtc^, pi. 143,//^. 2, 2a (1894). Agrusia Andersonii. 



Bingham, Fauna Brit. India, 1, />. 179 (1905) . . Elymnias Esaca. 



Fruhstorfer, Iris, XX, /. 248 (1907) Mimadelias Maheswara. 



„ (Seitz, Grossschm. d. Erdc), p. 392, 



//. 90<5 (191 1) Elymnias 



W. J. Gedeh mountains (i 250) ; mountains in the prov. Prayangan (+ 1 500). 



C. J. ? 



E. J. ? 



My collection contains three cf of this species. A specimen identified by 

 Snellen as Vasudeva Moore is doubtless the 9 of the present species, the 

 Maheswara of Fruhsuorfer. 



