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6 2 • Upperside black; fore wing with broad bluish-grey streaks in 

 the cell and in the interspaces; costa flecked with transverse spots 

 o£ the same. Hind wing white, the costal margin and apex broadly, 

 the terminal margin more narrowly and decreasingly towards the 

 tornus black ; the cell with a bluish-grey streak in its lower half 

 and vein 4 broadly lined with black on both sides. Underside 

 transversely mottled with black and white ; the markings on the 

 posterior half of the fore wing diffuse. Hind wing : a conspicuous 

 red spot at base of interspaces la and 1, followed in those inter- 

 spaces and in 2 by uniform chrome-yellow not extending to the 

 terminal margin ; anteriorly the wing is mottled as on the fore 

 wing, crossed at bases of interspaces 3-6 by elongate inwardly 

 rounded white spots ; beyond these the mottled area on the apex 

 and termen decreases gradually in width to the tornus. Antennae, 

 head, thorax and abdomen brown, suffused on the abdomen above 

 with bluish grey, paler beneath. Male sex-mark on both fore and 

 hind wing. 



Exp. S 2 80-90 mm. (3-2-3-58"). 



Hah. Sikhim ; Assam ; Burma and Tenasserim. 



The Eastern forms thycana^WaiWsLGe, vel deva, Moore, and lurmensis, 

 Moore, are good varieties, scarcely more, as they are not differ- 

 entiated enough to form races. Both differ in being paler on both 

 upper and undersides, the mottlings of the underside showing 

 through above on the bluish-grey streaks ; the extent of the black 

 on the upperside of the hind wing is much restricted, and on the 

 underside there is a larger extent of yellow ; the mottlings on the 

 underside show larger interspaces of white, and the black transverse 

 striae in var. hurmensis are finer, more slender. 



213. Elymnias esaca, Westwood (Melanitis), in Dblday., Westio. 8> Heiv. 

 Gen. I)i. Lep. 1851, p. 405 <$ ; M. § de N. (Dyctis) Butt. Ind. 

 i, 1883, p. 278. 

 Dyctis andersonii, Moore, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1886, p. 33, pi. 3, fig, 5 

 J ; id. (Agrusia) Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 169, pi. 143, figs. 2, 

 2«, J. 



$ . Upperside velvety black, in certain lights tinged with 

 olive-green ; a curved series of large bluish-green spots in the inter- 

 spaces of both fore and hind wing, separate one from the other, 

 subterminal and curved inwards opposite the apex on the fore wing, 

 broader, continuous and terminal on the hind wing. Underside 

 fuscous brown, irrorated with pale striae, these striae wider and 

 closer at apex of fore wing, giving it a distinctly white or lilacine- 

 white appearance ; fore wing with one, hind wing with five or six 

 minute white-centred black subapical ocelli ; a comparatively large 

 red spot near base of hind wing. Antennae, head, thorax and 

 abdomen dark brown, slightly paler beneath. Sex-mark on hind 

 wing only. 



2 . Upperside dull black, base of both fore and hind wing bluish. 

 Tore wing with obscure diffuse broad whitish streaks in interspaces 

 la to 3, and a series of discal similar spots beyond. Hind wing : a 

 large white patch posteriorly filling all but the bases and apices of 



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