152 LEPIDOFTERA INDICA. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside rich dark velvety purple-brown, almost black in 

 some lights ; cilia alternately edged with cinereous-white. Foreioing with the 

 costa more or less obscurely flecked with bluish strigEe, the outer margin with a 

 suffased deep purple-red band, the inner edge of which is anteriorly incurved to the 

 costa ; the Uarh glandular imich below the median vein visible. Eindwing with a 

 similar purple-red marginal band ; the glandular tuft within the cell cinereous black. 

 Underside dark chestnut-red, the basal area darkest and very sparsely covered with 

 obscure brownish-grey strigae, the outer margins and the apical patch on forewing 

 more numerously covered with broader more or less confluent plumbeous strigje, and 

 forming an ill-defined fascia on the former ; on the hindwing is a prominent white 

 costal spot, and sometimes a subraarginal series of white or bluish-white points. 

 Female. Upperside paler, with the outer marginal band also priler. Forewing with 

 the inner area of the marginal band traversed by an excurved series of obscure 

 ochreous spots. Eindwing with the band also traversed by two or three small pale 

 ochreous submarginal spots. Underside paler than in the male, the strigte on basal 

 area the same, those on the triangular costal patch and outer borders brighter and 

 lilacine-grey. Eindwing with the costal white spot prominent, and the submarginal 

 white points also distinct. 



Expanse, <? 2^) to 3, ? 2^^ inches. 



Habitat. — South Andamans. 



This species in all probability is a mimic of the Euploeine butterfly, 3Ienama 

 simulatrix, a common butterfly in South Andamans. 



Distribution. — " This species is apparently common at Port Blair, S. Andamans, 

 where it was taken by Mr. F. de Roepstorff in the months from April to August " 

 (Butt, of India, 269). 



ELYMNIAS MIMUS (Plate 136, figs. 2, 2a, b, cj ? ). 

 Elymnias mimus, "Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 230; id. 

 1882, p. 16, pi. 3, figs. 3, 4, c? ? . Marshall and de Nici'ville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 271 

 (1883). 

 Elymnias dolorosa, Butler, Ent. Monthly Mag. 1883, p. 53. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivescent umber-brown. Forewing with an 

 obscurely paler olivescent cinereous-brown excurved marginal band ; no glandular 

 patch. Eindxving with a similar paler marginal border, and sometimes one or 

 two obscure small dusky-black submarginal spots are present ; glandular tuft 

 within base of cell blackish. Cilia alternately whitish. Underside pale chestnut- 

 brown ; the basal area of both wings densely covered with broad transverse dark 

 chestnut-brown strigae, and the outer margins with more slender and sparsely- 

 disposed strigae. Forewing with an obscure ordinary costal patch and the broad 

 posterior margin dull cinerescent-brown. Eindwing with the submarginal area dull 



