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cinerescent-brown, traversed by six suboval black ocelli, the first upper and the fifth 
large, the others much smaller, and sometimes the third is obsolete, and the two last 
are geminated, the first and fifth with a violet- white speckled oval pupil, the others 
with a slender pupil, the fifth and the geminated anal pair also having a slightly- 
defined pale-ochreous outer ring; below the costal border is another but more 
prominent white pupilled black spot. 
Female. Upperside much lighter brown, with the marginal paler cinerescent- 
brown band broader. Forewing with some pale strigew along base of the costa. 
Hindwing with three lower submarginal dusky-black ocelli, as on underside, apparent. 
Underside paler, with the dark chestnut-brown strigz less confluent and permit- 
ting more of the ground colour to be seen; the subcostal white-pupilled ocellus 
on hindwing larger, and with a more diffused black border, the upper submarginal 
ocellus with a rudimentary white pupil. 
Expanse, ¢ 21%, % 2,% inches. 
Hasirat.—Nicobar Islands ; Nias Island. 
This species, “in all probability, mimics the Eupleine butterfly, Crastia Camorta, 
a species which abounds in all the islands of the Nicobars ” (Butt. Ind. 272). 
Distripution.—Specimens haye been received in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 
from Mr. F. de Roépstorff, taken in Kar Nicobar, Pulo Koudul, Great Nicobar, 
Kamorta, Trinkutt, Teressa, and Katschall” (Butt. Ind. 272). 
The type of H. dolorosa is described by Mr. A. G. Butler from Nias Island, 
Sumatra. 
Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 136, figs. 2, a, b, are from 
the type specimens named mimus by Mr. Wood-Mason, which have been kindly 
lent for this purpose. 
ELYMNIAS OBNUBILA (Plate 137, figs. 1, la, bg @). 
Elymnias olnubila, Marshall and de Nicéville, Butt. of India, ete. 1. p. 272 (1883). Moore, Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, p. 33, pl. 3, fig. 2, g. 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside dark velvety chestnut-brown, glossed with violet in 
certain lights; Forewing with a much paler chestnut-red excurved outer band; io 
glandular patch. Hindwing witha similar pale chestnut-red outer band, the glandular 
tuft brown. Underside numerously covered with dark chestnut-red strigew, and 
intervening lilacine grey strigze, which are most densely packed and broadest on the 
basal area, and are more slender on the outer half, the costal patch on forewing, and 
the submarginal areas being most densely covered with the lilacine grey strigx. 
Hindwing with a submarginal series of six small black spots with silvery-white 
pupils, and a larger-pupilled subcostal spot. 
Female larger; paler. Upperside with the pale marginal band much wider, 
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