158 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 138, figs. 2, 2a, b, male and female, 

 are reproduced from the figures above quoted. 



MELYNIAS TIMANDEA (Plate 139, figs. 1, la, b, c, (J ? ). 



Elymnias Timandra, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, p. 326. Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 

 1871, p. 522. Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 275 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purpurescent-brown. Forewing with some pro- 

 minent bluish-grey strigae at base of the costa, and some quadrate spots towards the 

 apex ; a violescent-blue or verditer-blue broad streak within the cell and a longitu- 

 dinal streak disposed between the veins ; the two upper streaks below the subcostal 

 being slender, the next also slender but broadly lobate at end of the cell, the three 

 next broadest at their inner end and somewhat lobate at their outer end, the posterior 

 margin also with a narrow streak. Hindwing with a similarly-disposed but much 

 paler and less sharply defined streak between the veins, the outer streaks broadest 

 at their discal end, the ends being indented, and are each opposed to an opposite 

 submarginal lunular-spot, these streaks and spots being mottled with brown speckles ; 

 fjlandular tuft cinereous-brown. Underside densely covered with dark purplish- 

 brown transverse strigse, and interveniag purpurescent-cinereous strigie, the dark 

 strigge most dense and more confluent on the basal half and the outer margin, the 

 pale strig* most dense and confluent on the discal area. Thorax and abdomen above 

 speckled with verditer-blue scales ; spots on the head above, collar, and sides of palpi 

 whitish; antennjB brown above, ochreous beneath. 



Female. Upperside paler brown, the markings as in male ; those on the fore- 

 wing paler and of a violaceous-blue, paling to ochreous-cinereous posteriori}-, and 

 those on the hindwing also ochreous-cinereous. Underside less densely but more 

 uniformly covered with slender dark-brown strigse and broader confluent pur- 

 purescent-white strigae. 



Expanse, c? 3 to ^j^^, ? Sn, inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Silhet ; Arakan ; Tenasserim. 



This species is a mimic of the Limnaine butterfly, Paranfica Aglea.* 



Distribution. — Mr. H. J. Elwes (Tr. Eut. Soc. 1888, 321) records a " single 

 specimen of the female, apparently agreeing with Timandra, taken in Sikkim by Mr. 

 Otto Moller's collector at Singla, in April, 1887." The late W. S. Atkinson obtained 

 it in Silhet. " The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has it from Silhet. Capt. Bingham 

 look a male in the Donat range in Tenasserim in April, and one female was taken 

 at Kanhlete in September, by Major Adamson " (Butt. Ind. 275). Obtained by 



* See vol. i. pi. 13. 



