ELYMNIAS. lt)9 



Genus ELYMNIAS. 



Elymnias, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 1816, p. 37 ; M. § de N. Butt. 



Ind. i, 1883, p. 264. 

 Elymnias, Melynias, Bruasa, Mimadelias, et Agrusia, Moore, Lep. 



Ind. ii, 1894, p. 144. 



Type, E. undularis, from India. 



Range. Africa and the Indo-Malayan Region. 



<S 2 • Wings ample ; terminal margins uneven, generally 

 scalloped ; entire only in a few forms. Fore wing short and broad 

 or elongate, moderately narrow ; cell broad, short, well under half 

 length of wing; upper discocellular very short, outwardly oblique ; 

 middle discocellular vertical, not half length of lower, lower 

 strongly concave ; veins 3 and 4 from lower apex of cell, vein 4 

 curved strongly upwards; veins 10 and 11 from before upper apex 

 of cell; vein 12 swollen at base. Hind wing short and broad, 

 oval, generally more or less caudate at apex of vein 4, sometimes 

 also shortly caudate at the apices of veins 1 to 3 ; cell very short 

 and broad ; upper discocellular nearly horizontal, middle vertical, 

 lower concave ; a well-marked prediscoidal cell ; veins 3 and 4 from 

 lower apex of cell ; vein 8 very short. Antennae short, less than 

 half length of fore wing, club gradual: palpi obliquely porrect, 

 tufted posteriorly, with somewhat thickset, adpressed hairs in front ; 

 eyes naked and prominent ; intermediate and posterior femora 

 longer than the tibiae, scaled not hairy. Males with secondary 

 sex-mark of specialized scales covered by a tuft of long hair, placed 

 below vein 1 when present on the fore wing, and near the base 

 within the cell on the hind wing. These sex-marks are, in the 

 majority of the Indian forms, present only on the hind wing. 



I have taken the genus Elymnias in the wide sense, distinguished 

 from the rest of the Satyrince by the possession of a prediscoidal 

 cell in the hind wing. The Indian forms can, however, be divided 

 into three fairly w 7 ell-marked groups : — I. True Elymnias, com- 

 prising the forms arranged under Elymnias and Melynias by 

 Moore ; II. Bruasa, Moore, with one form from within our 

 limits ; III. Forms comprised in Moore's genera Mimadelias and 

 Agrusia. Bruasa differs from Elymnias in the shape of the wings, 

 and Mimadelias and Agrusia in the character of the secondary 

 sex-mark in the male. 



Key to the forms o/ Elymnias. 



A. Basal area up to apex of cell on upperside of 

 wings uniform, without markings. 

 a. Markings when present on upperside of 

 wings terminal. 

 a'. Underside of hind wing not ocellated. 

 a 2 . Upperside : $ , wings brown, terminal 

 margin of hind wing only chestnut- 

 red or ochraceous ; $ , wings tawny, 



