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narrower bidentate-tipt scales, hut no androconia visible ; on tlie iinderside of 

 the wing is a glossy nacrescent patcli below the base of the cell, which is 

 clothed witli broad ordinary scales, and a restricted portion below the sub- 

 median is clothed with laxly-packed raised narrow oval scales. Hindwing short, 

 obtusely triangularly-ovate ; anterior margin extremely convex, apex pointed, 

 exterior margin convex, sinuous, and with a broader caudate angle at end of upper 

 median ; anal angle obtusely pointed ; costal vein short, looped at its base, forming 

 a false prediscoidal cell, emitting a short spur towards the base of the costa ; cell 

 short, very broad ; upper subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, and 

 terminating on middle of the costa, second subcostal terminating at the angle ; 

 discocellulars erect, lower concave, radial from angle above the middle ; the two 

 upper median branches emitted from end of the cell, lower median at more than 

 one-third before the end ; submedian vein straight ; internal vein recurved ; on the 

 npperside is a glandular patch situated within the upper half of the cell, and is 

 overlapped by a tuft of long erectile-hairs arising from alon^ its lower edge, the patch 

 being clothed with very densely-packed laxly-raised scales, which are of equal width 

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

 nearly fusiform blackish scales (androconia) with an acute point at each end. Body 

 moderately robust ; palpi elongate, porrect, slender, very compactly clothed beneath 

 with adpressed scales, and pilose above ; front legs hairy, middle and hindlegs 

 naked ; antennge with a slender indistinctly formed club ; eyes naked. 



Adult Cateepillab. — Somewhat fusiform, minutely pubescent; head armed with 

 two erect divergent setose processes ; anal segment also armed with two longer, 

 slender, hindwardly-projected setose processes. Feeds on Palmacece. 



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

 processes in front, and a similar thoracic process above. 



Type. — E. undularis. 



Of the species enumerated by Hiibner (Verz. p. 37), under Elymnias, viz., 

 Protogenia, Jynx, undularis, and Lais, Jynx is figured as an Elymnias, by Hiibner 

 (Ziitrage, figs. 37, 38). This group, therefore, becomes the typical one, and not 

 that represented by Lais. 



ELYMNIAS UNDULARIS (Plate 133, figs. 1, larva, la, b, c, <J ? ). 



Papilio undularis, Drury, Illust. Exot. Ins. ii. pi. 10, figs. 1, 2, ^ (1773). Fabricius, Spec, Ins. App. 



p. 504 (1781); Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 127 (1793). 

 Billis undularis, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 326 (1819). 

 Melanitis undularis, Wostwood, Gen. of D. Lep. p. 404 (1851). 

 Elymnias xmdularis, 'Kv^inQV, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 37 (1816). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. 



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