ELYMNIINJE. H9 



F. B. Dempster obtained it at Lounghut during the Cliin-Lusbai Expedition of 

 1889-90, only on low ground up to 1000 feet (J. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1890, p. 2). 

 Capt, Watson also obtained specimens at Rangoon in August, Sittang, Tenasserim, 

 in January, Beeling in April, Toungoo in March, Kyaikto, Tenasserim, in February, 

 and in the Karen Hills, 500 to 1500 feet, in December. "It is very common in 

 Eastern Karenee at 800 feet, in January" (Dr. Manders, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 519). 

 Mr. Ossian Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 826) obtained it in Upper Tenasserim, at " Mee- 

 tan, 3000 feet, in April, at Moolai, 3000 to 6000 feet, and at Taoo, 3500 feet." Capt. 

 Bingham took it in the Thoungyeen forests. Signor Leonardo Fea obtained it in 

 Bbamo in September. Mr. H. J. Elwes (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 419) records it from 

 •' Tavoy in March." Dr. J. Anderson (Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 1888, 32) 

 obtained it in " Mergui in December, and on King's Island in January. 



ELYMNIAS FRATERNA (Plate 134, figs. 1, larva and pupa, la, b, c, d, e, S ^ )■ 



Ehjmnias fraterna, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 520, pi. 42, fig. 3, ^, Moore, Lep. of 

 Ceylon, i. p. 25, pi. 13, figs, la, b, cJ ? (1880). Marshall and de Nicc'ville, Butt, of India, etc. 

 i. p. 268 (1883). 



Imago. — -Male. Upperside dark purple-brown. Forewing with the exterior 

 margin slightly tinged with purplish-ochreous ; crossed by a very obscurely-defined 

 excurved subapical series of very small purplish-blue spots. Hindwing with a broad 

 pale fulvous marginal band, and a submarginal series of paler spots. Underside 

 dark chestnut-red ; a triangular apical patch on forewing and the outer borders of 

 both wings densely covered with confluent brownish-grey strigse ; the basal areas 

 also with less numerous but more regularly disposed strig^ ; a distinct bluish- white 

 spot on anterior border of hindwing. 



Female. Upperside blackish purple-brown. Foreioing with the basal and discal 

 area rich ochreous ; a subapical oblique purplish-white vein -divided fascia and three 

 lower submarginal spots, having the strigce on the underside visible by semi-trans- 

 parency. Hindwivg with the basal and discal area rich ochreous, the branches of 

 the median vein and the abdominal area grey speckled, or the entire ochreous area 

 is more or less covered with pale transverse strigce ; a submarginal series of four 

 large bluish-white round spots. Underside as in the male, but paler, the basal area 

 slightly ochreous, and the strigge on the borders more dense, prominent, and 

 ochreous-white with ill-defined submarginal round spots ; costal bluish-white spot 

 prominent. 



Expanse, <S 2j^o to 2i^o. ? 3 to B^o inches. 



Adult Catekpili,ak. — Elongated ; thickened in the middle, pubescent ; head 

 small, yellow, surmounted by two erect pink pubescent processes, anal segment also 

 with hindwardly-divergent processes ; colour green, with longitudinal yellow hues. 



