l56 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



pi. 6, figs. 4, 5, c? ? (1882). Habitat. Malay Peninsula; Sumatra; Borneo. — E. 

 Dara, Distant, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 50. Habitat. N. Borneo.—^. Albofas- 

 data, Staudinger, Iris, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. Lep. 1889, p. 39. Habitat. Palewan. — 

 E. Enganica, Doherty, J. A. S. Bang. 1891, p. 24. Habitat. Engano Island, 

 Sumatra. 



Genus MELYNIAS. 



i;Zymwi(w (part), Hubiier Vera. p. 37 (1S16). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 236 (1857). 

 Butler, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 519. Scudder Proc. Amer. Acad. A. Sci. Boston, 1875, IGl. Distant, 

 Rhop. Malay, p. 58 (1882). Marshall and de Xiccville, Butt, of India, etc i. p. 264 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing somewhat elongate, triangular ; costa much arched, 

 apex obtusely rounded, exterior margin oblique and scalloped, posterior margin 

 slightly convex ; costal vein swollen at the base ; first and second subcostal emitted 

 before end of tlie cell ; the cell broad ; discocellulars inwardly-oblique, lower concave ; 

 two upper medians originating from end of cell. Hindioing short, obtusely ovate, 

 anterior margin regularly convex, exterior margin convex, scalloped and subcaudate 

 at end of upper median ; cell extending to nearly half the wing, rather narrow ; 

 discocellulars inwardly-oblique, much recurved, radial from above the middle ; two 

 upper medians fi'om end of cell ; glandular ^atch and tuft xcithin the cell, as in 

 Elymnias. 



Type. — M. Lais. 



The species of this genus are mimics of the Euploeine genera Paralitica, 

 Caduga, Trepsichrois, and Hestia. 



MELYNIAS SINGALA (Plate 138, figs. 1, la, b,c? ? )• 



Elymnias Sinr/ala, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 568 ; id. Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 26, pi. 13, 



figs. 2, 2a, $ ? (1880). 

 Di/rtis Singula, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 277 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olivaceous purpurescent-brown ; cilia alternated 

 Avith pale olivescent-cinereous. Forewing with a marginal macular baud formed of 

 pale olive-grey speckled quadrate spots ; a few olivescent-ochreous strig* along 

 the costa; no glandular patch. Hindwing with a broad submarginal band composed 

 of transversely-disposed more or less confluent olive-grey strig£B ; glandular tuft 

 within cell cinerescent-brown. Underside paler purplish-brown ; covered with 

 ])lackish striga3, which are most numerous on the basal half, and along the extreme 

 outer margins ; the submarginal area being broadly covered with densely packed 

 pinkish-grey striga?, forming a broad fascia which is more or less inwardly suffused 



