148 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



trunks of the Conjpha" (Capt. Chaumette, Ent. Mo. Mag. 1S65, 38). Mr. J. 

 Kotlaney records the " male common and the female rare at Barrackpur, near 

 Calcutta, settling in dense foliage close to the trunk" (Eut. Mo. Mag. 1882, 34). 

 Mr. L. de Niceville also found it " a common species in Calcutta, the larva feeding 

 on Palmaceaj " (J. A. S. Beng. 1885, 43). The late Mr. A. Grote found the larva 

 at Allipur in the district of Calcutta, feeding on the Rattan and on Corypha. (MS. 

 i^otes.) In Orissa, it is recorded by Mr. Taylor {List, p. 3) as " not common at 

 Khurda." 



Of tlie illustrations on our Plate 133, fig. 1 is a reproduction of the original 

 drawing of the larva found at Allipur, by Mr. A. Grote, now in our possession; 

 and figs, la, b, c, rejaresent the male and female. 



ELYMNIAS TINCTORIA (riate 133, figs. 2, 2a,- b, c? 2). 



Elijmnias tindoria, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 826, (J. Marshall aad de iSi^ict'ville, Butt, 

 of India, etc. i. p. 267 (1883). Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 1888, p. 32. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purpurescent bluish-black. Foreioing with the 

 escurved series of blue spots larger and broader throughout than in typical E. undu- 

 laris, in some the upper spots are conjoined, and the lower touch the outer margin. 

 Hindwing with the outer border dusky, suffused purplish chestnut-red, the sub- 

 marginal spots indistinctly whitish, or the two upper pale blue. 



Female. Upperside similar to E. undularis, except that on the foi'ewing the 

 bluish-black costal and outer border is comparatively broader, and consequently, the 

 ochreous inner-area more restricted ; the lower white spots are smaller, and the three 

 submarginal spots on the hindwing are also smaller. Undersides of both sexes 

 similar. 



Expanse, <S 2^ to 3, ? 3 to 3^% inches. 



Habitat. — ^Burma; Tenasserim. 



The female of E. tinctoria is more like that sex of the Javan form (jE*. Pro- 

 togenia) than to E. undularis, in the broad breadth of the dark borders, but the 

 Javan females have even a broader border to the forewing, than in tinctoria, and 

 consequently the ochreous area is still more restricted, and, it may be noted, that 

 the tiut of the ochreous colour on both wings of the Javan female is more intense 

 and dusky, agreeing in this intensity of colour, with that occurring in the Javan 

 Euplosid, SaJatura intcnsa, and of which the female of E. Protogenia is a mimic. 



Distribution. — " Very common throughout Burma, at all times " (Major Adam- 

 son, List, p. 10). Specimens in Capt. E. Y. Watson's collections were captured during 

 the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90, at " Pauk Yaw, in October and November, 

 aud at Tiliu from November to May" (Journ. Bombay X. H. S. 1891, 30). Mr, 



