180 NYMPHALIDiE. 



interspaces 1 a-4. Underside fore wing : ground-colour white, 

 densely covered with fuscous transverse striae, getting sparser 

 posteriorly. Hind wing : a large red spot near base ; basal third fus- 

 cous brown ; a large posterior white patch as on the upperside, but 

 suffused with chrome-yellow from dorsum to vein 3, and extending 

 nearly to costa, followed by a curved series of six minute ocelli 

 as on the upperside ; beyond, the apex and termen broadly and 

 closely irrorated with fuscous transverse striae. Antennae ochra- 

 ceous ; head, thorax and abdomen greyish brown, abdomen paler 

 beneath. 



Exp. c? 2 65-76 mm. (2-55-3"). 



Hah. Within our limits recorded from Mergui in Southern 

 Tenasserim. Found in Malacca, Sumatra and Borneo. 



Judging from descriptions and figures, Distant's E. godferyi and 

 de Niceville's E. esacoides are both identical with E. esaca, 

 Westwood. 



214. Elymnias penanga, Westwood (Melanitis), in Bhlday., Westzv. $ 



Hew. Gen. IK. Lep. 1851, p. 405 $ ; M. $ de N. Butt. Ind. i, 



1883, p. 269. 

 Melanitis mehida, Hewitson, Exot. Butt, iii, 1863, Melanitis, pi. 



figs. 2, 3, cJ. 

 Elymnias chelensis, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1890, p. 200, 



pi. D, fig. 3 <S ; Moore (Brnasa), Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 164, 



pi. 141, figs. 3, a -a, tf. 



(S . Upperside dark chocolate-brown. Fore wing richly glossed 

 with dark purple and with postdiscal broad streaks of glistening 

 silvery purple in the interspaces. Hind wing uniform. Underside 

 purplish brown, irrorated with diffuse white striae, which become 

 concentrated into an irregular, very broad postdiscal band from 

 below vein 4 on the fore wing and across the whole width of the 

 hind wing. Fore wing with the costa preapically closely marked 

 with purer white striae, continued as an ill-defined, inwardly oblique 

 band. Hind wing with a white subcostal spot and a postdiscal 

 series of minute white dots in the interspaces. Antennae, head, 

 thorax and abdomen brown. Sex-mark on hind wing only. 



$ . Upperside plumbeous blue. Fore wing with a broad white oblique 

 postdiscal band not quite reaching the termen. Underside similar 

 to that in the male but fuscous brown, very finely irrorated with 

 pale whitish striae, which are more dense and somewhat broader on 

 the apical half of the fore wing, giving it a whitish appearance ; 

 subcostal spot and postdiscal series of dots on the hind wing as 

 in the male. 



Exp. S 2 ^2-80 mm. (2-85-3-15"). 



Hah. Malacca; Sumatra, and within our limits recorded from 

 Tenasserim, the Shan States, Upper Burma, and the Khasi Hills, 

 Assam. 



I have compared the type of E. ehelensis, de Nice'ville, kindly 

 lent to me by the Authorities of the Indian Museum, with the type of 

 E. penanga in the Brit. Mus. collection ; it scarcely differs enough 

 to reckon it even as a varietal form. 



