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between the nervules greyish white. Forrwhig with an oblique subapical band placed nearly at 

 right angles to the complete submarginal series of rather faint and diffused blotches, and the 

 apical subcostal interspace, all lavender-blue, and with the costal and subcostal areas transversely 

 striated with the same colour. Hituhviug with a corresponding submarginal band, which is very 

 prominent and broken up into coarse stri?c between the third median nervule and the abdo- 

 minal margin, towards which it passes from blue into red-violet. Underside much as in 

 E. undtilaris and its allies, but more richly coloured than in any species of tliat group." 

 The type specimen, the only one known, is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



268. Dyctis singhala, Moore. 



Elymmas singhala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1S74, p. 568; idem, id., Lep. Cey., p. 26, pi. 

 xiii, figs. 2, }i!a!c; 2a, female (1880). 



Habitat : Ceylon. 

 Expanse : 3*0 to 3*5 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside dark purple-brown. Foreioing with a marginal 

 macular band formed of pale greenish-grey quadrate patches, a few ochreous strigoe on the 

 costal margin. Hiiukoing with a broad marginal band of pale greenish-ochreous longi- 

 tudinally-confluent strigce. Underside, basal areas purple-brown, outer areas pinkish-grey, 

 covered with numerous black strigce, most dense on basal areas and along extreme outer 

 margins ; an indistinct purple-white apical spot, and a submarginal row of black dots on the 

 hhidiving. Female brighter coloured, the marginal bands more prominent." {Moore, I.e., 

 in Lep. Cey.). "Occurs at Kandy." {Wade). The type specimen was described from 

 Colombo. The Indian Museum, Calcutta, contains a single pair. 



269. Dyctis pataa, Westwood. 



Melanitis fatna, Westwood, Gen. D. L., p. 405, note, pi. Ixviii, fig. 2 (1851), Elymnias patna 

 Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 327, n. 17 j Dtctis patna, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 

 p. 525, n. 13. 



Habitat : Cachar ; Sylhet ; Sikkim. 



Expanse : 3-35 to 3-95 inches. 



Description : "Upperside fuscous. "Foreiuitig and the outer angle of the hmdiving 

 with a slight violaceous sheen, with elongate purple streaks beyond the middle and anothe'r 

 in the middle. Hind-wing with four whitish submarginal dots. Underside pale fuscous. 

 Forc-iiing with three, hindxving with seven white dots ; the outer margin of the hindwin" 

 irrorated with white." {Westwood, I.e.) There are two female specimens of this species 

 from Sikkim in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. They differ from the male in being paler on 

 both upper and undersides, the elongate purple streaks on the upperside of \}ciq foreioinglzixpex 

 and more diffused, and in one specimen there is a submarginal series of five white spots, one 

 in each interspace, except the lower discoidal. They of course lack the sexual glandular patch 

 of scales and tufts of hair on the upperside of the hindwing near the costal margin which is 

 present in all the males of this subfamily. 



" A fine species, somewhat resembling Elymnias leiicocyma, but with the spots be- 

 neath as in E. hcwitsoni from Macassar and Celebes." {Wallace, I.e.) 



"Mimics ^«//a'(Z callitJioe, a species allied to E. spkndens and jS". jw/c7-^(T ; it bears a 

 superficial resemblance to Elymnias leucocyma," {Butler, I.e.) 



Z>. patna bears a general resemblance to Enplaias of the siiperba type both in form and 

 colour; the /(?;-ru:^/«^ is tinged with violet, and the himhvino with chestnut-brown ; the purple 

 streaks on the /^r^w/«^ are longest at the costa and extend in a curved regularly decreasing 

 series to the submedian nervure, one in each interspace, except that the streak above the third 

 median nervule is abbreviated or altogether wanting ; the patch in the middle is situated at 

 the end of the cell, and is often indistinct ; the whitish irrorations of the underside of the 

 hindxuiitg are grouped into irregular undulated stri^ on the outer and abdominal margins of 



