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GENUS ELYMNIAS. 

 Melanitis, pt. Fabr., in Illiger's Mag. Inseckt., vi p. 2S2 (1807) ; 



Westw.. Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 403 ( l8 5i)- 

 £/y»r*i«, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 3 7 (i8i6)j Wallace, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond, 1869, p. 3« (Monograph) 



Schatz, Exot. Schmett., ii., p. 225 (1889). 



ELYMNIAS COTTONIS. 

 {Plate XXX VII. , Figs. 1, 2.) 

 Melanitis cottonis, Hewitson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), vol. 

 14, p. 35 s ( lS 74). 

 Upper side.-Male.-Dark reddish-brown. Both wings with 

 the outer margins rufous. Anterior wing with the costal 

 margin lilac-blue. 



Under side.-As above, undulated with grey, the outer margins 

 broadly undulated with grey and brown. Antenor wing with a 

 large triangular grey spot, undulated with brown near the apex. 

 Posterior wing with a white spot near the middle of the costal 

 margin. 



Femaie.-Like the male, except that it is much larger and 

 paler, and that the anterior wing has on its upper side some 

 grey spots on the costal margin. 



' Exp., <? 2*j ? 3 TV inches - 



The above is a copy of Hewitson's description He adds : 

 -I prefer to consider this as a distinct species, rather than to 

 place it as a variety of M. undularis. Both sexes are alike, 

 are without spots, and have a broad rufous margin." 



The types of this species are in the Hewitson collection in 

 the British Museum, and were received from the Andaman 

 Islands. 



