NYMPHALID.E. — ELYJINIIN-E. — ELYMNIAS. 



II.— ELYMNIAS PARADOXA. S. Figs. 4, 5. 



Ehjmnias Paradoxa, Staudinger, " Deutsche Entomologisclie Zeitschrift : 

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



Ehjmnias Emstus, H. Grose Smith, " Novitates Zoologicfe," I., p. 588 

 (July 20, 1894). 



Exp. '2f- inches. 



Male. Upperside. Anterior wings greenish-black, the middle of the disc 

 between the uppermost median nervule and the submedian nervure is occupied 

 by an irregular white space, divided by the black veins, and densely irrorated 

 with black scales. Posterior wings very dark brown, shading near the outer 

 margin into the same colour as the anterior wings ; in the middle of the wings . 

 is a large round white patch, which slightly invades the end of the cell. 



Underside. Anterior wings greyish-brown, the apex and the middle of 

 the wings to the middle of the inner margin crossed by a broad brownish-white 

 band, irrorated with dark scales, and divided by the nervures, which are rather 

 broadly greyish-brown. Below the base of the median nervure is a bluish-white 

 scaleless stripe. Posterior wings dark velvety-brown, with the pale central 

 patch, which is brownish-white, shaded externally with rufous-brown scales ; 

 the space beyond the patch to the inner margin is also rufous-brown, which 

 colour extends broadly from the anal angle along the inner margin to half its 

 length ; between the subcostal nervules, a little before their junction with the 

 subcostal nervure, is an oval, bluish-white spot. The outer margins of both 

 wings are scarcely emarginate. 



Body black ; proboscis yellow. 



Hab. Saddleberg, German New Guinea (Webster); Constantino Harbour, 

 German New Guinea (Kubary). 



In the Collections of Dr. O. Staudinger and Mr. H. Grose Smitli. 



Not nearly allied to any known species. Dr. Staudinger remarks on its supei-ficial 

 resemblance to Mynes Australis, Guer. He describes a female, -wliich does not appear to differ 

 from the male here figured, escejjt in its slightly greater expanse (72 millim.). 



III.— ELYilNIAS HOLOPHEENES. $ . Figs. 6, 7. 

 Bycds Holofernes, Butler, " Annals and Magazine of Natural History," 

 ser. 5, vol. X., p. 42 (July, 1882). 

 Exp. nearly 3 inches. 



