

62 Geological Society. 



X. — Description of a new Species of the Lepidopterous 



Genus Elymnias. By J. Wood-Mason. 



[Plate II. figs. A & B.] 



Elymnias Peali, n. sp. 



£ . Wings above violescent black-blue, gradually darkening 

 from the outer margin to the bases, with the markings deep 

 lavender-blue and the incisural fringes greyish white. 



Anterior wings with an oblique subapical band placed 

 nearly at right angles to a complete submarginal series of 

 rather faint and diffused blotches, and the apical subcostal 

 cell, all lavender-blue, and with the costal and subcostal 

 areas transversely striated with thS same colour. 



Posterior wings with a corresponding; submarginal band, 



which is very prominent and broken up into coarse striae be- 

 tween the foremost median veinlet and the abdominal margin, 

 towards which it passes from blue into red-violet. 



Wings below much as in E. undularis and its allies, but 

 more richly coloured than in any of the species of that group- 

 Length of anterior wing 1 # 5, expanse 3*15 inches. 

 Hab. Aideo, Sibsagar district, Assam. Captured by Mr. 

 S. E. Peal. 



In form it approaches E. ttmandra y Wallace ; u in colora- 

 tion," as Mr. E. W. Janson informs me, " it is most like E. 

 penanga, Westwood {M* mehida. Hew.), much less so the 

 E. Saiieri of Distant, recently described and figured in his 

 c Khopalocera Malayana/ p. 65, tab. ix. fig. 3, <$ ." 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



November 1, 1882.— J. W. Hulke, Esq., F.R.S., 



President, in the Chair, 



The following communication was read : 



u Notes on some Upper Jurassic Astrorhizidae and Lituolidae." 

 By Dr. Eudolf Hiiusler, F.G.S. 



The Arenaceous Foraminifera obtained by the author are chiefly 

 from the zones of Ammonites transversarius and A. bimammatus in 

 the Upper Jura of the Aargau ; and from the whole Swiss Jurassic 





