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greenish fascia in cell, uaiTowest at base, ami widened ami somewhat truncate near apex, and with the 

 following longitudinal fascia; of the same colour placed between the nervules :— the upper two are placed 

 above and below the lirst discoidal nervule, and are very faint and slender, with their apices broad and 

 macular ; the third above first median nervule is slender, but macular at both ends, and inwardly approaches 

 the disco-cellular fascia; the following three separated by the median nervules are broadest at base, 

 narrowing at apical portion, but macular at apex, and the last runs along the inner margin. Posterior wings 

 with similar longitudinal fasciae as on upper wings, and which are also placed between the nervules, but 

 are broken near their apices, which thus appear as a submarginal series of spots; of these fascia; the 

 inner two (placed on each side of the submedian nervure) are longest, and the upper two (placed on each 

 side of the discoidal nervule) are the faintest ; there is also a very faint disco-cellular streak. 



Wings beneath dull greyish, suffused with fuscous, and mottled with dark strigie ; on anterior wings 

 these become more or less couffuent and dark chocolate in colour, forming an irregular spot in cell, a larger 

 ii-regular spot or fascia at end of cell, ami appearing very prominent towards outer margin ; on posterior 

 wings these darker shadings do not extend beyond basal half of wing, but again appear as a more or less 

 well-defined (inter submarginal fascia. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. Somewhat larger than the male, the fasci:e and spots of the upper surface being creamy m 

 hue, and with the outer margins of both wings distinctly and somewhat brightly castaneous. Beneath the 

 wings are much paler, and the numerous shadings are of like pattern but fainter impression. 



Exp. wings, (? 63 to 72 millim. ; 2 82 millim. 



Had. — Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll. Sauer) — Sumatra (Wallace) — Billiton (coll. 

 Godm. & Salv.) — .Java (colls. Horsf. & Dist.) — Borneo (Druce) — Siam ; Nahconhaisee (coll. Godm. (i Salv.). 



The only specimea of this species which I have seen from the Malay Peninsula, and which 

 is here figured, is contained in the collection made in Province Wellesley by Mr. Saiier. 

 A Javan male specimen in my own collection is smaller, and with the markings above more 

 decidedly green; this character, however, is not constant, as Mr. Wallace writes,* "the Java 

 specimens (Cramer's types) agree very closely with those of Sumatra and Borneo in the 

 males." 



aa. Outer margins of wings sliylUlij si)nuUe ; jivstcriar /((;/;/•< iiithunt a tcdl-dcr doped lUnulaU: prolouijatioti 

 at apex ofjirst median nervide. 



5. Elymnias penanga. (Tab. VII., tig. 6 J ; Tab. YL, fig. 11 2 .) 



Mclanitia l','niiiii/u, Westwood, Geu. Diuru. Lep. p. 405, n. '.*, nate (1851). 



Elymnia.i IViiawia, Wall., Trans. Eut. Soc. ISO!), p. 325, u. 'J; liutl., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 521, u. 8. 

 Melanitis Melmla, Hewdts., Ex. Butt. iii. Mflanitis, t. 1, f. 2, 3 (1803). 



FAijmnias Mehidu, Wall., Trans. Eut. Soc. 18G!), p. 323, u. 5; Bull., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 523, n. 10 j 

 Traus. Liuu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 538, n. 2 (l877i. 



Male. Anterior wings above piu'plish brown, with very strong bright blue rellections, which become 

 more fixed and distinct on apical half, and with live pale blue elongate spots, of which the upper two are 

 longest, and are situate on each side of lower discoidal nervule; the remaining three being much smaller, 

 and divided by the median nervules. The bluish retlectiou does not extend to the outer margin, which is 

 distinctly purplish brown. Posterior wings purplish brown, with bright bluish refiectious, but less intense 

 than on anterior wings. Wings beneath castaneous-brown, much mottled with paler strig;c, which on 

 anterior wings form a more or less distinct subapical space, widest at costa and narrowing downwards 

 beneath cell ; space beneath third median nervule much paler ; posterior wings with the basal portion to a 



* Trans. Ent. Soc. 18C'J, p. 325. 



