ELYMNIAS. 245 



GENUS ELYMNIAS. 



Melanitis, pt. Fabr., in Illiger's Mag. Inseckt, vi., p. 282 (1807) ; 



Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 403 (1851). 

 Elymnias, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p-37 (1816); Wallace, 



Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 321 (Monograph) 



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



ELYMNIAS COTTONIS. 

 (Plate XXX VI I., Figs, i, 2.) 



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

 14, p. 358 (1874). 



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. Anterior 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. 



Female. 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-jV 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. 



