176 NYMPHALIDJE. 



Race saueri. 



Elvmnias saueri, Dist. Rhop. Malay. 1882, p. 65, pi. 9, fig. 3 c? » 

 M. $ de N. Butt. hid. i, 1883, p. 274 tf ; Moore (Melynias), Lep. 

 Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 161, pi. 140, figs. 2, 2 a, <$ $ . 



$ . Upperside dark brown : fore wing suffused with iridescent 

 purple ; a spot beyond apex of cell, two discal spots, and a curved 

 series of larger postdiscal spots glistening light purplish blue. Hind 

 wing very dark chestnut-brown suffused with fuscous, uniform 

 or sometimes with a postdiscal series of obscure pale purplish- 

 white spots. Underside dark chestnut-brown ; both fore and hind 

 wing irrorated with delicate white transverse stria? towards the 

 terminal half ; the usual pale preapical patch on fore wing and 

 subcostal white on hind wing absent. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen fuscous black, paler beneath. — $ similar, but the 

 iridescent purple restricted to the apical half of the fore wing; the 

 spots as in the <S but almost white. Fore wing in addition with 

 an obscure white streak along the dorsum and a broader streak 

 from base in interspace 1. Hind wing with similar whitish streaks 

 in the interspaces not reaching the terminal margin, somewhat 

 broken and interrupted in interspaces 2 to 5, and crossed preapi- 

 cally by a very incomplete row of round black spots ; terminal 

 margin broadly and evenly dark brown. Underside much paler 

 than in the <$ , far more closely irrorated with the white transverse 

 striae. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dusky brown ; thorax 

 and abdomen suffused with whitish beneath. Male sex-mark on 

 hind wing only. 



Exp. s $ 94-98 mm. (3*7-3-88"). 



Hob. Common at low elevations from Kumaun to Bhutan, and 

 spread through the hill-region of Assam, Burma and Tenasserim. 



Race saueri, Distant. — Closely resembles the typical form. On 

 the upperside it is identical in ground-colour and markings with many 

 Sikhim specimens of the latter. Underside : ground-colour brown, 

 with more or less of a ferruginous or reddish tint on the anterior 

 half of the fore and on the whole of the hind wing. Fore wing 

 suffused on the anterior half with pale lilacine blue, costa flecked 

 and blotched with a paler shade of the same. Both fore and hind 

 wing covered with mottlings, striae and specks of dark velvety 

 brown. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown. 



Exp. 8 81 mm. (3-22"). 



Hah. The Malay Peninsula, extending into our limits in Southern 

 and Middle Tenasserim. 



The $ is, I believe, still unknown. Moore assigns E. kunstleri, 

 Honrath, as the $ , but, judging from the shape of the wings and the 

 colour of the latter and from the analogy of the typical form, the 

 £ and £ of which are certainly known, I should think it quite 

 improbable that E. saueri and E. Tcunstleri are sexes of the same 

 insect. 



