150 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



the subdorsal ornamented with some chrome-yello-w spots, and the fifth to eighth 

 segments with a red and blue spot. Feeds on Palmaceoa. 



Chrysalis. — Green, with longitudinal yellow streaks bordered by red streaks or 

 spots ; head and thorax truncate in front, with three short tubercles. 



Habitat. — Ceylon. 



The male of E. fraterna is a much paler and differently coloured insect, on the 

 upperside, from the same sex of E. undularis ; the female also having broader and 

 darker borders on the upperside, and the hindwing of the latter sex has the ochreous 

 area always more or less partially or entirely covered with pale strig^. The female 

 of this species is also a mimic of the Limnaine butterfly, Salatura Geniitia. 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — According to Capt. "Wade " it occurs at Galle and also about 

 Kandy." Mr. F. M. Mackwood notes that it is a " low country species, and generally 

 abundant." Capt. Yerbury recently obtained it at Trincomali, in July and October. 



ELYMNIAS CATJDATA (Plate 135, figs. 1, la, larva and pups, lb, c, d, 5 ? ). 



Elymnias eaudata, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 520, pi. 42, fig. 4, $. Marshall and de 

 JSTiceviUe, Butt, of India, etc. 1. p. 270 (1883). Hampson, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1888, 

 p. 351. Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay ^at. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 26S, pi. A. figs. 2, 2a, 

 larva and pupa. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Forewing dark velvety purple-brown, bluish-black 

 in some lights ; with an oblique subapical bluish-white band and three lower 

 submarginal oval spots, the upper spot being disposed inwardly-oblique, and 

 the lower spot outwardly-oblique, the strigge of the underside being visible by 

 semi-transparency on the band ; no glandular "patch. Hindwing paler purple- 

 brown, darkest at the base ; glandidar tuft within the cell cinereous-brown ; 

 crossed by a more or less broad discal fulvous band, which is intersected by 

 the brown veins and generally traversed by small paler or sometimes nearly white 

 submarginal spots, and occasionally the dark strigas of the underside are visible on 

 the band. Underside dark chestnut-brown, the basal area with several very 

 obscurely-defined brownish-grey strigse. Forewing with a prominent apical triangular 

 patch, and an irregular submarginal fascia composed of confluent pinkish cinereous- 

 white strigge. Hindtoing with a broad outer fascia or the entire border very densely 

 covered with more or less confluent pinkish cinereous-white strigte ; the ordinary 

 submarginal spots being indicated by small dark brown or white centred points. 

 Body beneath, palpi, and legs pale brown ; legs beneath cinereous ; antennce dark 

 brown with a pale ochreous tip. 



Female. Upperside with paler purplish-brown outer borders, the inner area 

 dull ochreous. Foreiving with the subapical bluish-white band and lower spots as in 

 the male. Hindwing with the costal and outer border, and the veins, broadly paler 

 brown ; the inner area, and streaks between the veins obscurely merging into the 



