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E.glauconia. The sj)ots on the upper as well as on the under sides correspond in all 

 the four forms, though those on the upper side are more or less inconstant, and in 

 some cases are obsolete. As regards the coloration, there is an analogous variation 

 in the bluish and brown tints in the case of the females of E. rnelane Hew., and 

 several other allied species, while the female of E. viridescens, hereafter described 

 mib 'So. 1G9, affords the analogy for the brown fonn, of which possibly a lilue or slate 

 coloured form may hereafter be discovered. 



167. Elymnias glauconia Standinger. 

 A good Series, including two females, which are paler and more slate coloured 

 than the indies, with pale patches on both wings. 



108. Elymnias viridescens sp. nov. 

 (I'l. XII., figs. 5 and 6.) 



jMale. — Uppersule : both wings greenish velvety black. Anterior wings with 

 the costal margin, apex, and outer margin shading into dusky bluish green. Posterior 

 wings with a broad pale dusky greenish grey band e.xteuding over the outer third, 

 broadest at the anal angle, the dark ground colour, extending partially along the veins 

 across it, the grey band is margined outwardly rather broadly with darker greenish 

 grey. 



Underside dark velvety brown, becoming paler towards the outer and inner 

 margins on the anterior wings ; along the apical third of the costal margin, the apex, 

 and outer margins, is a series of grey minute spots and markings, clustered closely 

 near the apex, and gradually decreasing along the outer margin. On the posterior 

 wings the grey band is represented by an irregular pale fuliginous band, the inner 

 margin of which is irregularly defined and interrupted by the ground colour shading 

 into it ; the veins across the pale space ai'e lilack, and the outer margin is rather 

 broadly dark greyish brown, in which are a few pale grey streaks and dots, three bluish 

 white spots across the upper part of the wings nearly parallel to the inner margin, 

 that nearest the base the largest, the third the smallest. 



Female. — Upperside bright brown, with the green space on the male repre- 

 sented by pale somewhat golden brown, which extends along the costa to near the 

 apex, thence cur\dng round parallel with the outer margin to the outer angle, where 

 it is broadest and palest. Posterior wangs with the basal half brown shading into paler 

 brown over the disc, and thence to the outer margin broadly fuliginous brown. 



Underside : both wings very much as on the upper side, but the pale outer area 

 is rather wider and whiter, with marginal grey streaks and dots as in the male, but 

 more numerous ; the bluish white spots nearly parallel with the inner margin on 

 the posterior wings, as in the mule. 



Expanse of wings : mide, 2\ inches ; female, 2J. 



.\ long series of males and two ferii(des. Nearest to E. papua Wallace. In the 

 colouring of the anterior wings of the nude it somewhat resembles E. glauconia. It 

 is a much smaller insect, and quite distinct from it. 



109. Libythea geofiroyi (icKlart. 

 One iiude and \\so feniahs. 



