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white spots. Hindioing difFor? also in hjiving the ground-colour much 

 darker, with a submarginal series of four prominent transversely- 

 elongated oohreous-white spots pl.iood between the veins, these being 

 obsolete in that species ; it is heavily clothed on the disc with long black 

 hairs. Underside, both wings much as in that species. Differs from 

 E. erinyes^ de Niceville,* from the Battak Mountains of North-east 

 Sumatra, in the forewing being shorter, less elongated, and on the 

 upperside of the hindwing in not having a series of perpendicularly- 

 elongated pale streaks between the veins. Diflfers from JL. kamara. 

 Moore,t from Java [Moore), and Lombok (Fruhstorfet'), only in having 

 on the UPPERSIDE of the hindwing a single series of narrow ochreous- 

 white spots, instead of a second and third series anterior to the first 

 extending towards the base of the wing. Female unknown." 



" In de Niceville and-Elwes' collections are single males." (de Biceville, 

 1. c). 



5. Elymnias (Mehjnias) NEOLAis, n. sp., pi. X, fig. 6, $ . 



Elymnias Inis, Kheil (nee Cramer), Khop. Nias, p. 20, n. 29 (1884). 



Habitat : Nias Island, near Sumatra. 



Expanse : <^, 2*9 ; 9, 3*3 inches. 



Description : Male. Almost exactly the same as true E. lalsy 

 Cramer, from Java, but on the upperside of both wings the pale 

 greenish-ochreous streaks between the veins are somewhat narrower 

 and darker. On the underside of both wings it differs from E. laisidis, 

 de Niceville, :{ from North-east Sumatra, in having all the dark markings 

 much larger and of a deeper colour, therein agreeing with E. lais. 

 Female. Upperside, foreioing has a large triplicate subapical white 

 patch divided only by the veins and sti'ongly glossed with violet, this 

 gloss barely extends beyond the white patch. In E. lalsidis the violet 

 gloss is of much greater extent, and reaches to the submedian interspace, 

 and is also much wider, reaching the discoidal cell. E. lais has no violet 

 gloss whatever. In outline it is nearest to E. lais, but the wing is rather 

 longer, though it is not as long as it is in E. laisides. The hindu'ing has 

 the pale streaks between the veins less wide than in E. laisiais, still loss 

 wide than in E. lais. 



• Jonrn. Bomb. Xat. Hist. Soc, vol. x, p. 19, n. 5, pi. R, figs. '.), male ; 10,Jhnale (I8y5)_ 

 t Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. x, n. 20, pi. B, fii?. II, iiKtle (IS'.io).. 

 : Journ. A. S. B., vol. Ixiv, pt. 2, p. 390, u. 96 (189G), 



