142 LEPIDOPTEEA IXDICA. 



and its allies, lias an inconspicuous glandular intch on the uppe'.'side 

 between the base of the median and submedian vein, the patch being clothed 

 ■with peculiar-shaped scales, but no androconia ; a corresponding nacrescent patch 

 being also present on the underside of this wing ; and, in another group, repre- 

 sented by vasudeva, the fore wing has the middle portion of the posterior margin folded 

 over on to the upperside, the fold covering a glandular fatch of scales, and the patch 

 overlaid by an erectile tuft of enclosed hairs. Hindwing, in the males of all species, 

 with a glandular patch situated vnthin the upper half of the cell, which is overlaid 

 by a lengthened tuft of erectile hairs, arising from the lower edge of the patch, the 

 patch being clothed with very densely packed laxly-raised scales, which are of equa'^ 

 width throughout and have obtuse rounded tip and base, and with numerous short 

 fusiform slender blackish scales {androconia), which latter have an acute point at each 

 eud ; costal vein short, looped at its base and forming a false prediscoidal cell ; the 

 cell short, very broad ; upper subcostal branch emitted at about half way before end 

 of the cell, and terminating on middle of the anterior margin ; lower discocellular 

 concave ; the two upper median veinlets emitted from end of the cell. Head 

 moderate sized ; body moderately robust ; eyes naked, prominent ; antennte slender, 

 ■with a gi-adually formed indistinct club ; forelegs small, those of the male hairy, 

 those of the female also small but more robust, naked, cylindrical, and blunt at 

 the tip ; palpi elongate, porrect, clothed "with short adpressed hairy-scales and 

 perceptibly tufted above. 



Adult Caterpillar. — Somewhat fusiform, minutely pubescent; head armed 

 with two erect divergent branched-processes ; anal segment also armed with two 

 longer slender setose hindwardly-projected processes. 



Chrysalis. — Suspended by the tail only; head truncated, with two small pointed 

 processes in front, and a similar thoracic process above. 



Egg. — " Similar (to those of the Satyrinse), large, globular, translucent, hard, 

 obscurely facetted, nearly as high as wide " (Doherty, J. A. S. Bengal, 1886, 109). 



General Characteristics. — The males of all the known species possess, on the 

 upperside of the hindwing, a basal glandular patch of scales overlaid by a tuft of erectile 

 hairs. In certain species of the genus Elymnias (undularis and its immediate 

 allies) there is also an inconspicuous glandular patch on the upperside of the 

 forewing, below the base of the cell, and in the genus Mimadelias, the forewing 

 has the middle of the posterior margin folded over on to the upperside, the fold 

 covering a glandular pnicli of scales, and an erectile tuft of hairs. 



The genera of Elymniinaj, though structurally similar as regards their venation, 

 the species, as here assigned to each genus, not only exhibit, to a certain degree, the 

 particular form of the wings, but in their colours, and also their peculiar style of 

 markings, they accord "with the group of protected butterflies, of which, respectively. 



