272 NYMPHALID^. ELYMNIINiE. ELYMNIAS. 



liglit band of the foir.mng distinctly angulated, and the costal margin of the same barred with 

 lighter, in its more highly developed and unequal ocelli, in the more abrupt definition of the 

 basal chestnut from the rest of the underside, and apparently also in its more strongly lobed 

 wing-margins and finer tails. It in all probability mimics Ettphta camorta, a species which 

 abounds on all the islands of the Nicobar group." ( Wood-Mason and de Nicthille, 1. c.) 



Since the above was written, one male from Great Nicobar, two males and a female from 

 Kamorta, two males from Trinkutt, and two females from Teressa, have been received by the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Mr. de Roepstorff. The males are all very constant, but the 

 Kamorta female differs from the Pulo Kondul female in having the apex of the forewing more 

 produced, and the submarginal band on the upperside of both wings hardly lighter than in the 

 males. On the underside the ocelli are also much smaller than in the type specimen. 



263. Elymnias oTsauTsila, Marshall, n. sp. 



Hakitat : Upper Tenasserim ; Mergui. 



Expanse : <?, 2-4 ; 9 , 3*0 inches. 



Description : Male : Upperside dark velvety chestnut-brown glossed with violet in 

 certain lights, with a much paler outer band from beyond the middle of the costa of the forewing 

 to the inner margin of the hindwing, inwardly diffused, outwardly extending to the margin, 

 except at the apex of the forewing, which is suffused with dusky. Underside dark grey, close- 

 ly undulated with broad chestnut-brown strice except upon the area corresponding with the 

 pale band of the upperside, on which the undulations are much finer and wider apart. Fore- 

 -ioing with a conspicuous whitish triangular costal patch near the apex ; the hinder angle 

 tinged with yellow. Hindiuing with a submarginal series of six black spots with silvery 

 pupils ; the first near the costa having the silvery pupil very large, scarcely ringed with black. 

 Female larger, paler. Upperside with the pale band much wider, occupying on the hind- 

 wing the whole of the outer half. A submarginal series of four dark brown obsolete dots, 

 corresponding to the ocelli on the underside. Underside also paler. Hindwing with the 

 silvery subcostal spot larger, the rest of the ocelli smaller and imperfect, being reduced to 

 blackish dots with faint white irrorations on the inner edge. Shape, as in E. wididaris, but the 

 inner margin of the forewing longer, the outer margin more erect, straight, more prominently 

 dentate, and the hindwing more prominently tailed. This is the continental representative of 

 E. panthera, Fabricius, from Java ; it differs from E. panthera in shape, in having the 

 outer margin straight, not convex, and the inner margin longer ; and in m.arkings, in that on 

 the upperside the pale band is broader and continued to the margin, and of a rich bright 

 chestnut colour, and bears no spots on the hindwing in the male, though the female has 

 a series of four very obscure spots ; whereas in E. panthera the outer margin is broadly 

 clouded with dusky brown, and the hindwing has three small submarginal ocellular spots ; 

 and on the underside similarly the pale band formed by the partial absence of strioe is 

 narrow and submarginal in E. panthera, broad and marginal in E. obmibila ; in E. panthera 

 also the white triangular patch of the forewing is obsolete, and the ocelli of the hindwing are 

 larger, the first near the costa being like the others instead of having the silvery pupil 

 greatly predominating. 



Only two specimens of this rare species have as yet been taken so far as we know ; a 

 single male now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, was taken by Dr. J. Anderson in the Mergui 

 Archipela<;o in January ; and a single female, now in Major Marshall's collection, was taken 

 by Captain C. T. Bingham in the Thoungyeen forests in Upper Tenasserim in December. 



E. panthera, Fabricius, is figured by Ilorsfield in his Cat. Lep. E. I. C, pi. v, figs. 

 7, la (1S28), female, under the name of Melanitis diisara. Mr. Wallace remarks of it that " the 

 female is like the male, but the pale bands are broader and somewhat yellower, and contain 

 three or four pale spots on the hindwing ; the species varies but little, and seems to be very 

 constant in both sexes, with but little difference between them." (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1869, 

 pp. 322, 323). 



