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British Museum. Fruhstorfer, in Seitz's 'Macro-Lepidoptera of 

 the World,' vol. ix. p. 341. notes it in his collection from North 

 Borneo only, and figures a typical Kinabalu under side. A short 

 series from Kinabalu, collected in September, 1913, shows 

 several points of difference on comparison with the Sarawak 

 series ; so that it becomes necessary to restrict typical amoena 

 for Sarawak specimens, and separate those from Kinabalu as a 

 distinct subspecies, which I name M. amoena ramyaiana, subsp. 

 nov., and describe as follows: — 



Upper side of both sexes differs from typical amoena in the heavier 

 fuscous apical shading ; in the male this hides the apical ocelli which 

 are visible in amoena. 



General colouring below dark fuscous-brown instead of reddish- 

 brown ; one broad median band across both wings, which is darker 

 on the margins, lighter in the centre. In typical amoena this band 

 is divided into two narrow reddish-brown bands separated by a 

 broader band of ground-colour ; in fore wing of male amoena the basal 

 band is obsolete. 



The tuft of hairs on the costal margin of the hind wing above in 

 the male is greyish-ochreous, not conspicuous ; in typical amoena 

 this is pale yellow, and at once seen on raising the fore wing. 



Subfam. ELYMNiiNiE. 

 Elymnias smithi, sp. nov. (Plate VI., figs. 1 and 2.) 



Female. — U7icler side: A rough mimic of female Euploea dio- 

 cletianus lotvi. 



Fore wing : Brown-fuscous, a rusty brown tinge on inner-marginal 

 area ; three large confluent internervular white spots obliquely placed 

 beyond cell, the lowest beyond the third median nervule but not 

 reaching the second median nervule. Some white scales about the 

 centre of costa. Hind whig : More rusty-brown than in fore wing, 

 especially in the post-discal and apical region ; a white patch in 

 lower corner of cell, slightly extending beyond cell below but not 

 above the radial nervure, and spreading more below median nervure 

 from base of second and third median nervules to the submedian 

 nervure. Cilia white. 



Under side : Mottled fuscous relieved by white distal patch in 

 fore wing and white discal patch in hind wing. A submarginal row 

 (on the hind wing only) of five small black internervular spots in- 

 wardly touched with white scales. 



The hind margin of the fore wing is conspicuously scalloped as 

 in E. nescea ; the largest tooth-like projection between third and 

 second median nervules. The hind wing also scalloped ; prominent 

 tail formed by prolongation of third median nervule. 



Exp. al. 77 mm. 



Type and only known specimen collected by Professor 

 Harrison W. Smith on or near Mt. Molu, Sarawak, in 1912. 



As the male is unknown, it is impossible to assign any 

 definite place for this species in the genus Elymnias. But for 

 the fact of its being a Euploeine mimic instead of Danaine, I 



