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Major C. H, E. Adamson in " Arakaa and Tenasserim in September, February, 

 April and May, but it is very rare in Burma" (List of Burmese Butt., p. 10). Mr. 

 A. R. Wallace records it from " Moulmein " (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1869, 326). 



MELYNIAS MALELAS (Plate 140, figs. 1, la, b, <? ? ). 



Melanitis Malelas, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. mel. pi. 1, figs. 6, 7, ^ (1863). 



Elymnias Malelas, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, p. 327. 



Melanitis leucocyma, Boisdaval ; Doublcday, Catal. Lcp. Brit. Mus. pt. i. p. 144 (1844), Westwood, 



Gen. D. Lep. p. 404 (1851) nee Godart* 

 Elymnias leucocyma, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Compy. i. p. 238 (1857). Wallace, Trans. Ent. 



Soc. 1869, p. 326. Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1571, p. 522. Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 273, pi. xvii. fig. CO, c? ? (188.3). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark velvety blackish purple-brown. Cilia alter- 

 nately edged with white. Foreiving darkest, the outer two-thirds brilliantly glossed 

 "with steel-blue in some lights ; costal edge with several short pale-blue strigse ; an 

 excurved submargiual series of violet-blue spots, of which there are five, the lower 

 being rounded, the two upper oval and longer ; sometimes an incipient slender sub- 

 costal upper spot is also slightly indicated ; three similar blue smaller spots also on the 

 disc, another just beyond end of the cell, and a more or less defined slender speckled 

 streak extending to near each of the upper outer spots, the lowest and sometimes the 

 middle spot being slender and extending towards the outer lower spots. Rindwing 

 l^aler externally, with a purpurescent tinge ; with, or without, an obscure sub- 

 marginal series of small violet-grey speckled lunules ; the hasal tuft of hairs 

 cinereous-brown. Underside uniformly paler brown, undulated with sliort trans- 

 A-erse cinereous-ocbreous strigge, which are most densely disposed externally and 

 more or less obsolescent, or absent basally; the costa of both wings being also more 

 jDrominently edged with whiter strig^, and the base of the hindwing with three 

 superposed white spots. Head above, and thorax beneath spotted with white ; 

 collar beneath also white ; clothing of palpi above and beneath tipt with white ; legs 

 white speckled ; antenna brown. 



Female. Upperside paler. Foreiving as in the male, except that the glossy blue 



* Godart's leucocyma (Enc. Meth. ix. p. 325) is described by him as having " absolutely the appear- 

 ance and shape of ' undularis,' the upperside of the wings of a blackish-brown, with a band of pale blue- 

 violet spots on border of the forewing, and a row of ashy points on the border of the hindwing. Underside 

 deep brown, with a multitude of small greyisli-waves, more powdered on the hindwing than on the forewing. 

 Habitat, Java." I am indebted to Mr. P. C. T. Snellen, of Kotterdam, for directing my attention to 

 Godart's species (in a letter dated Feb. 2, 1890), wherein he says that " Leucocyma of Godart is not found 

 in Java, where only the typical undularis form with its very different female occurs. I have leucocyma 

 from Sumatra, Banca, Billiton, and Flores, the female resembling the male." 



