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seven obscure ocellatcd spots, the uppermost small aiul tlie lowermost .lupKx, iiiul a narrow marginal 

 fascia. Posterior wings with three oblique fasciic ; beyond the third is a series of six obscure ocelktud 

 spots, of which the uppermost is smallest and the lowermost duplex, and a narrow submarginal and a 

 rather broader marginal fascia of the same colour. ^Vi^^s beuuath pale ochraccous, the fascia, darker, and 

 the ocellated spots with bright silvery centres. J]ody above greyish-brown, Inneatli with legs pale 

 ochraceous; thorax and legs streaked with greyish-brown. 



Exp. wings, S & 2 , 3() to 40 millim. 



H.i.B.— Malay Peninsula; Penang, Province Wellesley (coll. ])ist.); Perak (Kunst.— Calc. Mus.) ; 

 Sungei Ujong (Durnford— coll. Dist.) ; Malacca, Singapore (Godfery).— Sumatra (Forbes— coll. J)ist.).— 

 Java; Bantam (coll. Dist.).— Borneo (Druce) ; Sarawak (Wallace— coll. Dist.) ; Sandakan (Pryer— coll. 

 Dist.). 



This species varies in hue above, and uf a long series in my own collection the palest 

 specimen is from Sumatra and the darkest from Perak. 



One of the most pecuhar facts in relation to this butterfly ap|)ears to be its almost recent 

 appearance in the Malay Peninsula, or at all events its first capture there by collectors. I did 

 not meet with it myself when collecting at Province Wellcslcy, nor did I subsecjuently receive it 

 in numerous collections derived from the Peninsula. In lySo, however, the species seems to 

 have been common from Penang to Singapore. I first received two specimens captured on 

 Penang Hill, and sent to me as a new species ; others shortly followed from Province Wellesley, 

 with the remark of an experienced collector that the species was quite new to the locality ; and 

 almost simultaneously the Indian Mail brought me more examples from Sungei Ujong, 

 Malacca, and Singapore. My friend Mr. Logan also sent me an example with the conunent, 

 " a very rare butterfly, not known to collectors here."* 



Capt. Clodfery, who also captured the species at Sungei Ujong, describes it as being fourid 

 "in low undergrowth in the forest, where, especially in the early morning, I several times met 

 with it. Its flight is weak and feeble, but it cleverly eludes pursuit by threading its way 

 through the tangled brushwood." 



Genus ELYMNIAS (antra, p. 58). 

 8. Elymnias abrisa. (Tab. XLIIL, fig. 5 J .) 



FAymnias abrisa, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xvii. p. 531 (1880). 



Male. Wings above dark obscure indigo-blue, posterior wings with a large submarginal pale bluish 

 patch. Wings beneath glossj' brow^nish, much mottled with paler strigie ; anterior wings with the basal half 

 of costal area and apical margin castaneous, and with a large triangular pale subapical patch ; posterior 

 wings with a subcostal castaneous patch, a pale stramineous spot between the subcostal nervules, and the 

 outer half of wing with the ground-colour pale violaceous and having a few small subnuirgiual spots. 

 Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female, t "Wings dentated, the hind wings most strongly, brow'u with a slight blush shade. Fore 

 wings with a large whitish patch, commencing above the submedian nervure at half the length of the cell, 

 to beyond the discoidal nervule ; below the submedian nervure it extends obliquely outwards to the level 



* In England the plentiful appearance of some hitherto rare insect frequently fjivcs the character to an entomological 

 year, and the above facts show that this spasmodic appearance is exhibited by certain species in the tropics. 



t I am indebted to Mr. W. F. Kii-by for furnishing me with the above description of the female of this species, which 

 I foimd contained (unnamed) in the Hewitsonian collection. 



July 30, 1886. 5 p 



