NYMPHALID.E. ELYMNIIN^. ELYMNIAS. 273 



E. Intescens * also belongs to this gvoup. It is very closely allied lo E. mimns, and dilTcrs 

 from that species on the uppeiside in the fornoing being but slightly paler on the margins, 

 and having no submarginal paler band; the band on the hiiulwing is, however, much 

 more prominent, and bears a submarginal row of spots. Underside very similar, the ocelli 

 rather smaller. 



264. Elymnias leuCOCyma, Godart, (Plate XVII, Fig. 60 <? ?). 



Biblis leucocyma, Godart, Enc MJtli., vol. i.\-, p. 326, n. 3 (1819) ; Dyctis leucocyma, Moore, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lend., 1878, p. 826 ; Melaiiitis iiiaUlas, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol, iii, pi. ISldnititis, figs. 6, 7 (1S03), male. 



Habitat : North-Eastern India, Arakan, Tenasserim. 



Expanse : yz to 4'2 inches. 



Description : Male : Upperside velvety blackish brown, the outer two-thirds beautiful- 

 ly shot with violet in certain lights ; a submarginal series of paler violet irrorated spots, and 

 four similar spots on the disc, two beyond the cell below the lower discoidal nervule, and 

 one between eacli pair of median nervules. Hindiving brighter brown, paler externally, and 

 with or without a submarginal series of small ashy dots. Underside pale brown, closely 

 undulated with greyish yellow stride, most densely on the outer two-thirds. Female as in 

 the male, but with the violet shot confined to the outer half of the forewing, the spots white, 

 partially irrorated with violet towards the apex ; the whole of the interspaces on the hindwing 

 and below the median nervule in the forewing marked with numerous transverse yellowish- 

 grey strire more or less confluent into longitudinal streaks. Underside as in the male, but with 

 the pale strire much wider and whiter. Mr. Wallace (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 327) 

 considered E. malelas distinct from E. lauocyma, and remarked, "allied to E. leucocyma, but 

 differing in the smooth outline of the wings, and the produced outer angle of the hindwing." 

 There can be but little doubt, however, that they are one and the same species. 



E. leucocyma in both sexes is an excellent mimic of EupJaa midamus ; its highly elongate 

 forewing distinguishes it from all other species of the subfamily. It is common in the sub- 

 montane districts of Northern and Eastern Bengal, extending through Burma as far south 

 as Tavoy, but not apparently into the Malay peninsula proper. Mr. T. C. Hill took it in 

 Tavoy in March ; Captain C. T. Bingham found it commonly in the Thoungyeen forests 

 in the autumn and again in April ; Captain C. H. E. Adamson found it commonly in Moulmein 

 in September, and again at Akyab. Mr. Wood-Mason took it in Cachar in June and July. 

 The Indian Museum, Calcutta, contains specimens from Sylhet and Upper Assam ; Mr. de 

 Niceville has taken it round villages in Sikkim at about 2,000 feet elevation in October ; and 

 Mr. E. T. Atkinson records it from Kali Kumaon on the western border of Nepal. 



The figure shows the upperside of a male specimen from Sylhet, and of a female from 

 Sibsagar, Upper Assam, both in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



The next species, K saiieri, diffars from all the foregoing in the pattern of the underside, 

 which is marbled throughout, with no definite pattern and no defined spots on either wing, 

 and no paler nebulous outer band. 



* jE/jcw^i/af /«to««i', Kutler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. x-x, p. a->.\, pi ix, fig. 10 

 (1867), female ; id., Wallace, Trans. Ent. Sec. Lond , 1869, p. 323, n. 4 ; id , Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 i87i,p. 52i,n 6 ; id , Distant, Rhop. JNIalay , p. (>>, pi. vi, figs. 4. male; $. female (1882). Habitat: 

 Penang ; Province Wellcsley ; Malacca; Ayerp.-inas ; Singapore ; Sumatra; Borneo. Expanse: 3 o to 3"2 

 inches. Dksckiption : " M »le : Utperside, ^<)i'/j to/w^j dark glossy fuscous. /v7;v;ti/«^ with the outer margin 

 somewhat broadly and slightly paler. Himliving with a broad, pale greyish submarginal fascia, the inner mar- 

 gin of which is somewhat scalloped between the nervules ; this is broadest near the anal angle and narrowest 

 at the apex, and contains a series of prominent fuscous spots placed between the nervules, two between first 

 median nervule and submedian nervure, the others_ placed singly (these spots are variable in number, not being 

 found above the third median nervule in some specimens, but in other specimens continued towards the apex). 

 Underside, io//iTw«c-5 pale castaneous, mottled with numerous greyish striae, and with a more or less well- 

 defined broad submarginal fascia, which is broadest and most clearly defined on ihe hindmhig, and there pos- 

 sesses six dark blue rounded spots, with pale blue centres, which are continued in streaks beyond their inner 

 margins ; these spots are placed between the nervu'es, the first above the discoidal nervule, and the fifth and 

 sixth together between the first median nervule and the submedian nervure ; a pale and bright bluish spot 

 between the subcostal nervules. Body and legs more or less concob'urous A-ith the wings._ Feiialk larger than 

 the male. Ui'PERSIDK paler and more ferruginous. /^5i;-f7('z«^ with a broad and well-defined outer ferruginous 

 fascia. Hlndwins; with the pale submarginal fascia broader and less scalloped inwardly than in the male, and 

 with five or six fuscous spots with paler centres placed between the nervules. Underside p:.Ier than in the 

 male, but with the A/«(/je'/«^ spotted as in that sex. The tail-like prolongation oi \.\v<i hindwing at the apex of 

 the third median nervule is longest in the female." (Distant, l.t.) 



