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into the streaks. Underside much as in the male, but paler and very similar in both sexes 

 to the underside of E. iittdtilaris, female, but the white striation, especially on the hindwing, 

 is far bolder. Mimics Datiais (Salatura) genntia. The tail is also longer than in E. nndiilaris, 

 and the outer margin of the forewing more scalloped. It appears to belong to a different 

 group, as there is no patch of loosely attached scales on the uppersidc of the forewing 

 in the male. 



E. caitdata is a very handsome and distinct species ; it has only been found in the south 

 of peninsular India ; the male was originally recorded from Canara ; the female has never 

 been previously described. Mr. H. S. Fergusson has taken both sexes in Travancore on the 

 Ashamboo hills, where it is fairly common in April and May. The Indian Museum has 

 specimens from Calicut, the Wynaad, and the Kadur district in Mysore, 



The next two species belong to the group of which E. panthera is the type, and are 

 distinguished by having a more or less distinct submarginal series of ocelli on the underside of 

 the hindwing. This feature is found to a certain extent in Dyd'n sing/iala, and to a very much 

 lesser degree in E. fenanga ; while Dn^is patna has a submarginal series of white spots 

 representing the ocelli, but in all other Indian species of the subfamily, the series is entirely 

 wanting or only represented by a silvery subcostal spot. 



262. Elymnias luimus, w.-M. and de N. 



E. mimus, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. 1, pt. ii, p. 230 (18S1). 



Habitat : Nicobar Islands. 



Expanse : ^, 27 ; ? , 2'9 inches. 



Description: "Male : Upperside, black fuscous of a fuliginous tint, somewhat paler 

 on the costal margin of the forewing, still paler at the apex of the same wing, and on the 

 outer margins of both wings, the extreme edges and the points of the lobes of which margins 

 are again darker ; with the cilia whitish on the interspaces. Underside, both 'cvings brownish, 

 coarsely and confluently striated with rich dark chestnut for their basal two-thirds, whence 

 they become suddenly lighter, owing to the striation being more rare as well as lighter coloured. 

 Foreiving with the outer margin of the closely striated portion sharply defined, and angulated 

 outwards between the first and second discoidal nervules ; and with the ground-colour imme- 

 diately beyond the anterior and shorter of the two lines forming the angulated outline of the 

 basal portion whitish. Uindiving with the ground beyond the chestnut base pale sepia, pass- 

 ing to whitish around the outer-marginal ocelli, obscurely and rarely striated before, but 

 more richly and closely at the outer margin beyond the ocelli with vandyke-brown ; and with 

 seven suboval submarginal black ocelli, of which the second is the largest of all but only slight- 

 ly larger than the fifth, the first is subequal to the sixth, and the third, fourth, and seventh 

 (which touches the sixth in the same interspace) are subequal and much smaller than the rest, 

 the first and second have a white pupil (which in the latter is eccentric) irrorated at the edges 

 with light metallic greenish-blue scales, and the rest have the pupil almond-shaped, with some 

 mauve-coloured irrorations on and around its inner end. Female : Upperside much 

 lighter, with a submarginal whitey-brown common band which passes straight across both 

 wings from near the anal angle of the hiiid-wing to the third branch of the median nervure 

 of the forewing, at which point it turns sharply off at a right angle to the costal margin ; 

 with the light intervals between the striations of the underside visible as light bars on the 

 anterior margin, and the apical dark portion lighter than the basal, of the /orewiiig ; and 

 with two infuscations (less perceptible in the darker male) on the hindwing corresponding to 

 the fifth and sixth ocelli of the underside. Underside lighter, with the chestnut stride 

 less confluent permitting more of the ground-colour to be seen ; and with the anterior ocellus 

 larger and much diffused circumferentially, the second with the pupil rudimentary, and the 

 third larger than the fourth. " 



"One male from Kar Nicobar and one female from Pulo Kondul." 



"Closely allied to E. dnsara [ panthera, Fabricius), Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. , pi v, 

 figs. 7, 7« (iS2^), female (no description), from which it would appear to differ in having tlie 



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