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with greenish white, the specks confluent and prominent on its 

 posterior half; costa also with a few like-coloured spots and 

 specks. Hind wing with a broad subterminal irregular band 

 composed of striae and blotches of the same colour. Underside 

 light brown, irrorated with transverse striae and specks of very- 

 dark brown, most dense on the basal halves of the wings ; a 

 very broad pinkish-brown irregular subterminal band, on which 

 the dark striae and irrorations are more scattered, followed by a 

 terminal more or less darker border to both fore and hind wing ; 

 the latter with a conspicuous subcostal white spot and a curved 

 series of six or seven small black spots surrounded by white areas. 

 Antennae brown ; head, thorax and abdomen velvety dark brown ; 

 abdomen paler beneath. $ similar, brighter and paler in 

 colour. 



Exp. 6 2 "0-90 mm. (2-8-3-6"). 



Hab. Ceylon. 



206. Elymnias peali, Wood-Mason, A. M. N. H. (5) xi, 1883, p. 62, 



pi. 2, fis;s. A, B, 6 ', M. # de N. (Dyctis) Butt. Ind. i, 1883, 

 p. 276 ; "Moore (Melynias), Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 157, pi. 138, 

 figs. 2, 2 a, 2 b, S 2. 



S 2 • Shape of wings as in E. singhala. tf . Upper side deep 

 velvety purpurescent black ; fore wing : terminal margin broadly 

 suffused with pale blue, costa with trausverse flecks of the same 

 colour. Hind wing : apex and terminal margin anteriorly with a 

 faint suffusion of pale blue darkening to a postdiscal short 

 transverse band posteriorly ; a red spot at tornus. Underside rich 

 dark ferruginous brown ; costa, a large preapical patch, terminal 

 half of fore and of the hind wing with purplish lilacine 

 diffuse transverse striae ; a prominent white subcostal and 

 a tornal reddish spot on the latter wing. Antennae, head, 

 thorax and abdomen velvety brown. Male sex-mark on hind 

 wing only. — $. Upperside pale purpurescent brown; fore wing, 

 cell-area much darker ; hind wing, cell-area and posterior half 

 of wing much, darker ; tornal red spot quadrate, larger than 

 in the <$ . Underside similar to that of the $ but very much 

 paler, the rich dark ferruginous-brown colour restricted to the 

 cell in the fore wing, to the basal third, the disc posteriorly and 

 the terminal margin in the hind wing ; the rest of the wings dull 

 white, crossed by numerous transverse purplish-brown striae. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the <$ . 



Exp. tf 2 75-86 mm. (2-98-3'4"). 



Hab. Assam, Sibsagar, Margherita. 



207. Elymnias malelas (PI. Ill, fig. 27), Hewitson (Melanitis), 

 Exot. Butt, iii, 1863, Melanitis, pi. i, figs. 6, 7, 3 ; Moore (Melynias), 

 Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 159, pi. 140, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, <$ $ . 

 Elymnias leucocyma, M. fy de N. {nee Boisduval) Butt. Ind. i, 

 1883, p. 273, pi. 17, fig. 60, 6 2- 



