162 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



described by Mr. Distant, was captured in Province Wellesly, Malay Peninsula, by 

 Mr. Sailer, and the above assigned female, in Perak, by Mr. Kiinstler. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 140, fig. 2, 2a, male and female, 

 both are copied from Mr. Distant's figures above quoted. 



MELYNIAS PATNA (Plate 141, figs. 1, la, (J). 



Melanitk Patna, Westwood, Gen. of D. Lep. p. 405, pi. 68, fig. 2 (1851). 



Elymniai Palna, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Conipy. i. p. 238 (1857). "Wallace, Trans. Ent. 



Soc. Lond. 1869, p. 327. 

 Dyctis Patna, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 525. Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, 



etc. i. p. 277 (1883;. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark velvety blackish purple-brown ; cilia alternately 

 edo-ed with white. Forewing with the outer area glossed with dark violaceous-blue, 

 and crossed by a curved discal series of elongated purplish-blue streaks, which 

 commence from middle of the costal edge, and decrease posteriorly; the streak 

 disposed between the lower radial and upper median being more or less very 

 obsolescent, slender, lobate, and obscurely extending in a lobe to end of the cell. 

 Tlimlwing paler externally, with the apical area glossed with violaceous-blue ; 

 crossed bv a submarginal series of four distinct white dots ; the glaiidalar tuft of 

 hairs at the base pale ochreous-brown. Underside uniformly paler brown. Forewing 

 with the costal edge flecked with bluish- white strigEe ; the discal area with numerous 

 transverse very obscurely-defined brownish-cinereous strigaj, and a submarginal row 

 of three bluish-white dots. Hindwing with a submarginal curved series of seven 

 bluish-white spots, the upper one disposed between the subcostals ; the outer 

 border being flecked with cinereous . striga3. Head above and thorax beneath 

 spotted with white ; collar and streak on sides of palpi also white. 



Female. Upperside paler. Forewing as in the male, except that the elongated 

 purple-blue streaks are larger, longer, and more diffused, the submarginal streaks 

 each with a slightly-defiued outer central white dot. Hindwing as in male. 

 Underside also paler ; markiugs as in the male. 



Expanse, c? 3 to S^\, ? S^^y inches. 



Habitat. — Western and Eastern Himalayas ; Cachar ; Silliet ; Burma. 



This species is a mimic, both in form, coloui-, and general markings, of the 

 Euploeine butterflies Sticioploea hinotata* and Isamia splendeiis. 



DisiTviBUTiON. — Mr. W. Doherty (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 120) records " two males, 

 taken at Garjiaghat, near the junction of the Kali and the Gori, Eastern Kumaon, at 

 2500 feet. They do not differ from Sikkim specimens." The late W. S. Atkinson 



• See vol. i. plate 53, figs. 2, 2a. 



