NYMPHALID.E.-ELYMNIIN.E. 



ELYMNIAS. I. 



I.— ELYMNIAS GLAUCOPIS. g. Figs. 1, 2. ?. Fio. 3. 



Elijmiu'as Glaitcopis, Staiulinger, " Deutsche Eutomologische Zeitschrift : 

 Iris (Dresden)," VIL, p. 116 (July 14, 1894). 



Fhliiinlas Mi'lanippc, H.Grose Smith, " Kovitates Zoologica?," L, p. 587 

 (July 20, 1894). 



Exp. i 2-|- inches ; ? 3-| inches. 



Male. IJppEKSiDE. Both wings brownish-velvety black, shading into dark 

 steel-blue towards the apex and outer margins. On the anterior wings the 

 inner edge of the steel-blue area before the apex is traversed near the costal 

 margin by an oblique grey streak, which is not continued round the wings, as 

 in E. Afjondas, Boisd. On the posterior wings between the veins towards the 

 anal angle are two large black spots a little above the outer margin, the spot 

 between the submedian nervure and lowest median nervule being centred with 

 two clusters of blue scales, the spot in the next interspace being centred witli 

 one larger cluster of blue scales ; above these spots, and partly surrounding 

 them, is a broad orange-fulvous band, which extends from near the inner 

 margin to the middle median nervule, and is widest towards the inner margin. 

 A brush of greyish-brown hair towards the base of the posterior wings. 



Underside. Both wings brown. On the anterior wings is a broad greyish- 

 brown ill-defined band along the outer margin, which somewhat recedes from 

 the outer margin towards the outer angle ; in the pale band between the two 

 lowest median nervules is a black spot centred by a blue streak. The posterior 

 wings are crossed, a little before the outer margin, from the apex to the middle 

 median nervule, by a similar greyish-browai band, narrowest at the apex ; from 

 that nervule to the inner margin the band becomes wider, and is In-ight orange- 

 brown, in which are situate the two black spots, as on the upper side, but the 

 central blue spots are larger, somewhat iridescent, and centred with whitish 



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