154 LEPIDOFTERA INDICA. 



occupying on tlie hindwing the whole outer half ; a subtnarginal series of four brown 

 obsolescent dots. Underside also paler. Hindwing with the silvery subcostal spot 

 larger, the rest of the ocelli smaller and imperfect, being reduced to blackish 

 dots with white speckles on their inner edge. 



Expanse, 6 2^^, ? 3 inches. 



Habitat. — Upper Teuasserim ; Mergui Archipelago. 



DiSTKiBUTiox. — "A female in Major Marshall's collection was taken by Captain 

 C. T. Bingham in the Thoung3-een forests, in Upper Teuasserim, in December " 

 (Butt. Ind°272). According to Mr. H. J. Elwes (P. Z. S. 1891, 269), Mr. W. 

 Doherty found it rare in the " Karen Hills ab about 2000 feet elevation, iu April. 

 Found also West of Bassein." 



Of this rare species a single male, now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, was 

 taken by Dr. J.Anderson (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1888, 33) at Thaing, King Island, 

 Mergui Archipelago, iu January. A male of this species, identical with the type, 

 from the Island of Salanga, is in the British Museum collection. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 137, fig. 1, la is from the type 

 male kindly lent from the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and fig. lb the female taken 

 by Mr. Doherty, obligingly lent for this purpose by Mr. Elwes. 



ELYMNIAS DiEDALION (Plate 137, figs. 2, 'Ja, ? ). 

 Byctis Bmdalion, do Kiccville, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 202, pi. D, fig. 4, ? . 



Imago.—" Feuiale. Upperside. Both wings dull reddish-brown, almost fuscous ; 

 crossed by a broad pinkish-white band, beyond which the ground-colour is somewhat 

 obscurely striated with paler. Foreioing with the costa striated with white ; the 

 broad white band slightly outwardly-curved, commencing on the costa at the middle 

 and decreasing in width to the anal angle, its lower portion suUied, especially at 

 the edo-es. Hindwing with the broad discal white band extending from the anterior 

 maro-in to the abdominal margin above the angle, widest in the middle, and traversed 

 outwardly by a series of five round black spots. Underside. Both wings with the 

 basal half dull castaneous-brown, coarsely striated with whitish, the discal fascia 

 white, the outer margins coarsely striated with dark castaneous brown ; the hind- 

 wino- with the black spots as above, and a small bluish-centred costal spot between 

 the base of the subcostal veins. 



Expanse, 2^o to 2^% inches. 



Habitat. — Burma. 



DisTiUBUTiON. — " The type specimen was taken at Myitta, Burma, in January, 

 and is in the Phayre Museum, Rangoon (de Niceville, /. c. p. 203). Major C. H. E. 



