ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN LEPIDOPTERA. 19 



This species would appear to come into Mr. H. J. Elwes' Group V* 

 of " A revision of the genus Ypthima,'" though it is smaller than any 

 of the species included in it, the female measuring 45 mms. only 

 instead of 50. It appears to be nearest to the wet-season form of 

 Y. methora, Hewitson, but is considerably smaller, and has only one 

 apical ocellus to the hindwing instead of two. It agrees with it in hav- 

 ing no " male-markj" though I am not quite Sure about this character, 

 androconia may be present, but if they are, they are but few in number. 

 It may be near T. persimilis, Elwes (1. c, p. 39), from Mao, Manipur, 

 7,000 feet, but though that species appears to have five ocelli also, they 

 are differently arranged ; there are two apical ones instead of one, and 

 one anal one instead of two. The expanse of this species is not given . 

 Y. iarba reminds one of Y. newholdi, Distant, with which it agrees in 

 size and in having five ocelli to the hindwing ; but that species has the 

 anterior ocellus in the lower instead of the npper subcostal interspace. 

 Messrs. Elwes and Moore both agree in sinking Y. newholdi as a 

 synonym of Y. baldus, Fabricius. The specimen described is probably 

 an aberration or *' sport." 



Described from a single male taken between Manipur and Tammu 

 kindly given to me by Captain E. Y. Watson, who has suppressed his 

 own description of the species in favour of mine, and several examples 

 from N.-E. Sumatra in Hofrath Dr. L. Martin's collection and 

 my own. The types are from Sumatra. 



Subfamily Elymniin^. 



5. ELYMNIAS {Melynias) ERINYES, n. sp., PI. R, Figs. 9, ^; 

 10, $. 



Habitat : Battak Mountains, N.-E. Sumatra. 



Expanse : ,J, 3-2 ; $, 3*4 inches. 



Description : Male. Uppeeside, hoth wings fuscous, with a slight 

 purple gloss in some lights. Forewing immaculate. Hindwing with 

 a series of broad greenish- whitish- mottled- with-black streaks between 

 the veins ; these streaks do not reach the outer margin ; they are 

 anteriorly short, but increase in length posteriorly. Underside, fore- 



* Trans. Ent. Soc.Lond., 1893, p. 36. 



