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NYMPHALID^:. 



spots on the fore wing white suffused slightly with dark scales ; 

 the terminal half of the hind wing tawny, more or less suffused 

 with dusky black, which in some specimens forms a distinct border 

 along the termen. 2 similar to the 2 °f -^ undularis, but the 

 black more extended ; veins 2, 3, and 4 on the hind wing- 

 broadly bordered with black. Underside : tf differs from E. 

 undularis in the more conspicuous broadly triangular white pre- 

 apical patch on the fore wing, and in the prominence of the broad 

 tawny terminal half of the upperside of the hind wing, which 

 shows through a pale, sometimes pinkish-brown on the underside. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown, paler beneath and 

 much paler in the $ than in the <$ . 



Exp. 6 2 86-88 mm. (3-4-3-5"). 



Hob. South India from Travancore to Mysore and the Mlgiris. 



"Larva: spindle-shaped, slender, transversely rugose and clothed 



with short stout bristles ; head large, surmounted by two 



stout horns, sloping backwards, slightly branched at the ends ; a 

 pair of long straight caudal spines setose like the body; colour 

 bright green with longitudinal yellow lines more or less distinct 

 and two rows of large yellow spots tinged with green and some- 

 times tipped with black on the back ; head dark brown, with a 

 yellow cheek-stripe and frontal- line. 



" Pupa : suspended by the tail only, but in a rigidly horizontal 

 position, regular with the exception of two small pointed processes 

 from the head and an acute thoracic projection above them ; colour 

 bright green, beautifully ornamented with four irregular rows of 

 large yellow spots bordered with red." {Davidson Sf Aitlcen.) 



205. Elymnias singhala, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 568 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. 

 i, 1880, p. 26, pi. 13, figs. 2, 2a, <$ $ ; M. $ de N. (Dyctis) 

 Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 277 ; Moore (Melynias). Lep. Ind. ii, 1893- 

 96, p. 156, pi. 138, figs. 1, la, lb, <$ $ . 



Fig. 38. — Elymnias singhala, $ . 



cf . Hind wing : a long narrow tail at apex of vein 4, dentate 

 at apices of veins 1, 2, and 3. Upperside purpurescent dark 

 brown. Fore wing with the terminal margin broadly speckled 



