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some lights ; cilia brown. Forewing crossed by a broad subapical somewhat excurved 

 pale violet band, which extends decreasingly to above the posterior angle, the area 

 of the band being traversed by three small superposed discal whitish spots, situated 

 respectively between the upper and lower radials and the middle median ; posterior 

 margin with a medial dusty-brown curved bar, outwardly edged with pale ochreous- 

 brown, which is formed by the folding beneath of the middle of the lobular margin. 

 Hindwing with the anterior margin broadly pale ochreous-brown, and with a 

 prominent black sagittate glandular imtch on the submedian vein near its anal end, the 

 patch being clothed with black elongated scales of nearly equal width throughout, 

 their apex being very obtusely bidentate, and their base also bidentate ; some few of 

 these scales are much narrower, but of the same form. Underside dull pale-ochreous, 

 numerously covei:ed with obscure ochreous-brown transverse strig^, which are 

 slender and more sparsely disposed on the basal half, but are more confluent on the 

 exterior half, and there form two broad ill-defined fascisB, between which is a very 

 indistinctly more or less ill-defined series of ordinary-disposed submarginal small 

 black-speckled spots, the veins are also slightly black speckled. Body beneath, 

 palpi, and legs pale ochreous ; antenna brown with a pale ochreous tip. 



Expanse, <S '2-ro inches. 

 Habitat. — South India. 



Distribution. — The type specimens of this insect were taken at Trevandrum in 

 Travancore, and are in the collections of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and that of 

 Capt. G. F. L. Marshall. 



Sub-family ELYMNIIN^. 



Elymniina, Herrich-Sclireffer, Prod. Syst. Lep. i. p. 15 (1864). 



ElymiiiincB, Kirby, Syn. Catal. D. Lep. p. 112 (1871). Marshall and de Xiceville, Butt, of India, etc. 



i. p. 263 (1883). 

 Satyrince (group Elymniades), Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 38 (1869). 

 Ehjmniadiv, Dolievty, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 109. 

 Etirytelidce (part) Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 403 (1851). Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. lS6i>,- 



p. 321. 



Characters op the Elymniina. — Imago. — Wings moderately large, weak, 

 outer margin generally dentate. Fore-wing with the costal vein always swollen 

 at the base ; cell short and broad ; discocellulars inwardly-oblique^ the lower 

 considerably the longest and deeply concave ; the two upper median veinlets 

 emitted from end of the cell ; submedian undulated and extending to the 

 posterior angle. The male, in the group represented by Elymnias undularis 



