( 321 ) XXI. Notes on Eastern Butterflies; (continued). By Alfred R. Wallace, F.Z.S., V.-P. Ent. Soc, &c. [Read 7th June and 5th July, 1869.] Fam. EURYTELID^. Genus Elymnias, Hiibner. [Melanitis, part, Fabr.) I follow Mr. F. Moore in adopting Hiibner's name for this genus, in preference to Melanitis of Fabricius, which has been used by most authors down to Westwood and Felder, but which properly belongs to a genus of SatyridcB, of which Leda and Banhsia are the types. It contains a number of remarkable insects differing in style of colouration, but often resembling species of other families, especially Danaidce and Morphidce. It is somewhat widely distributed, ranging from West Africa to New Guinea; but the bulk of the species are found in the Malay Archipelago, where they are equally distributed between the Indo-Malayan and Austro-Ma-layan regions. None, however, are yet known from Australia. In the " Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera," twelve species are given as then known, two being from Africa, two from India, and eight from the Malayan Islands. Several species have since been described by Mr. Hewitson and others; to which I now add eight from my own collection and that of the British Museum, making a total of thirty-one Eastern species. It is interesting to observe, that the species from the Austro-Malayan Islands form a compact group, distin-guished by a regular and somewhat rounded outline of wings, and resembling in colouration some of the broad-winged Euploece, or the genus Drusilla ; while the species of India and the Indo-Malayan Islands, are almost always characterised by a more irregular outline, Avaved, toothed, or even caudate, and generally coloured like species of Danais, or the more elongate forms of Euploea. These are forest-haunting insects, frequenting chiefly damp places where there is a dense herbaceous vegeta-tion. Their flight is slow, resembling that of the Saty-ridcp. and Morphidce. TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1869. — PART IV. (AUGTJST) . 2 B
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