58 RHOVALOCEHA MALAY an a. 



margin wider and paler ; marginal and submargiual lines as on upper surface ; posterior wings with four 

 ocellated spots, the upper of which is placed between the subcostal nervules, the second and third as 

 above, the fourth broad (apparently duplex), with two pale centres and bright outer margin between the 

 third median nervule and the submedian nervure (the artist has slightly misplaced this last spot on the 

 figure). Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, 27 to 33 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Cachar (Brit. Mus.) — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Brit. Mus.) — Sumatra 

 {Snellen) — Java; Batavia (Snellen) — Celebes (Snellen). 



A female Malaccan specimen in the British Museum, which was collected by Capt. Pinwill, 

 is here figured. The species appears principally to vary in the size and prominence of the 

 ocellated spots on the upper surface. 



I follow Mr. Kirby, and adopt his name for the form figured by Hiibner as Y. philomela, 

 but which is not the species described under that specific name by Linnfeus, and which evidently 

 belongs to this genus. 



Genus ELYMNIAS. 



Fli/iiinias, Hiibner, Vcrz. bek. Schmctt. p. 37 (1810); Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 619 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



i. p. 25 (1881). 

 Melanitis, part, Fabr., Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 282 (1807) ; Westw., Gen. Dinru. Lep. p. 403 (1851). 

 Bihlis, part, Latr., Enc. Meth. ix. p. 10 (1819). 



Anterior wings short and broad, with the costa strongly arched and convex from base, the apex more 

 or less acutely angular ; outer margin somewhat oblique and emarginate, sometimes waved and dentated ; 

 inner margin slightly dilated or convex ; costal nervure strongly dilated at base ; first and second subcostal 

 nervules emitted before the end of cell ; upper disco-cellular nervule shortest, strongly angulated at base of 

 first discoidal nervule and very slightly concave along its greatest length ; lower disco-cellular strongly 

 concave ; first and second median nervules with a common origin, and emitted at lower end of cell_ 

 Posterior wings irregularly subovate, with the outer margin more or less waved and generally produced into 

 an ol)tuse angle or tail near first median nervule ; first and second median nervules with a common origin 

 about apex of cell ; upper disco-cellular nervule suberect and much shorter than the lower one, which is 

 concave. Eyes naked. Palpi very long and slender, clothed beneath with short compressed hairs, and 

 above with longer, slender, and distinctly separated hairs. Antennae slender, slightly and gradually 

 thickened towards apex. 



I have included this genus in the Satyriiia', in which subfamily it possesses a somewhat 

 unique position, not only in general coloration and markings, but also by its neuration, the 

 first and second median nervules of the anterior wings having a common origin. The term at 

 one time used by Mr. Butler, "Aberrant Satiiriiuc" *" seems therefore very appropriate. Mr. Kirby t 

 followed Herrich-Sehaifer in the opinion tiiat these differences were sufficient to establish a 

 distinct siibfamily of the Niiinjiludida', but he also has recently included Ehjmnias in the 

 Sattjriiiw.l 



In this genus the species possess an almost universal mimicry in colour and markings to 

 protected or inedible species mostly belonging to the Danaina>, but they may, however, be readily 



* Cat. Fabr. Lei?, p. 38. f Sj'u. Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 112 (1871). 



j Zool. Record, 1881 ; Ins. p. 138. 



