16G LEriDOPTERA IXDICA. ^ 



the upperside and there covering a scabrous glandular patch of scales situated below the 

 submedian vein, a tuft of fine erectile hairs arising from the inner end of the patch, and 

 enclosed within the fold. Veins as in Elymnias. Hiudioing obtusely-ovate, the 

 costa much arched at the base, exterior margin convex and scalloped, but not cau- 

 date, the anal angle rounded. Cell shorter and broader, the discocellular outwardly- 

 oblique, nearly straight; other veins and also the glandular patch and tuft of hairs 

 within the cell, as in Elymnias. 



Type. — M. Vasudeva. 



The species of this genus are mimics of the Pierine butterflies of the genus 

 Delias. 



Habits; and Food plant of Catekpillar. — According to the observations 

 of Capt. Godfery (Distant Rhop. Malay. 423) the species of this genus {M. 

 Godferyi) found in the Malay Peninsula, was captured " hovering with some- 

 what feeble flight over the high banks separating the road from the adjacent 

 forest." Mr. Distant also records (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1887, p. 50) on the authority 

 of Mr. W. B. Pryer, that in North Borneo the larva of this same species (Grod- 

 fervi) " feeds on an Orchid — a specimen of this orchid hanging in my verandah 

 attracted two or three females, and a caterpillar feeding on the orchid was bred up 

 and produced the male butterfly. This butterfly may be described as rare, but is 

 probably common enough 150 feet above ground amongst the tree tops, where only 

 the orchid grows." 



MIMADELIAS VASUDEVA (Plate 142, figs. 1, la, h, c, c? ? )• 



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



Sec. Loud. 1869, p. 327. 

 Di/cHs ranudera, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1S71, p. 525. Marshall and de Xiceville, Butt, of 



India, etc. i. p. 278, pi. xvii. fig. 61, c? (1883). 

 Elymnias Thycana, "Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1809, p. 323, $ ? . 



Ijiago. — Male. Upperside. Foretving dull black, glossed with indigo-blue; 

 some bluish-grey strigoe along the costal edge, a bluish-grey broad fusiform cell- 

 streak cut by the discocellulars, below which are three longitudinal median discal 

 streaks, and beyond is an excurved outer decreasing series of six small streaks, 

 the cell and discal stretiks being, generally, narrowed at their outer end, and 

 joined to the opposite outer streak, and the extreme outer margin also lunularly 

 speckled with bluish scales; posterior margin u'ith the middle portion folded over 

 upon the upperside and there conering a scabrous glandular patch of scales situated 

 below the submedian vein, a tuft of fine erectile hairs arising from the inner end of the 

 patch, and enclosed within the fold, the inner surface of the fold being white, and 

 tlie tuft brownish-ochveous. Ilindwing with the costal border and exterior margiu 



