428 On Three new Butterflies from British North Borneo. 



Expanse of wings 2^ inches. 



Hab. Taganac Island, North-east Borneo. 



From a good series of this insect, in whicli the character- 

 istics above described are uniform, I am induced to consider 

 this variety as worthy of description. The ordinary form of 

 A. nero was not captured in the island. Some of the male 

 specimens are more red than others, a variation which also 

 occurs with A, nero, but in all of them the veins are the same 

 colour as the rest of the wings. In coloration it approaches 

 the variety of A. nero from the Island of Palawan, but it is 

 less bright, though brighter than A, zarinda, Boisduval, from 

 Celebes. 



Elymnias hornee^isis. 



Male. — Upperside. Anterior wings dark brown, brightly 

 suffused with purple, with three pale blue elongate spots 

 situate between the discoidal and upper median nervules ; the 

 purple reflection extends to the posterior angle, but not quite 

 to the apex of the wings. Posterior wings brown, sliglitly 

 suffused with purple over the whole extent of the wings. 



Underside, Both wings resemble those of penamja and 

 sumatrana, but are darker, and on the posterior wings tliere 

 is no submarginal row of spots. 



Female. — Upperside. Anterior wings greyish brown, faintly 

 with dull blue at the base; an oblique irregular ill-defined grey ish- 

 white band from the middle of the costal margin to near the 

 middle of the hind margin, and a similar band extending into 

 the cell, about its middle, and over the space between the sub- 

 median nervure nearly as far as the middle median nervule. 

 Posterior wings greyish white, slightly tinged with pink, 

 with a broad greyish-brown streak from the base along the 

 upper subcostal nervule and thence round the outer margin, 

 where on its inner edge the streak is sinuate on the veins. 



Underside. Both wings brown, irregularly mottled with 

 grey, the grey bands and patch on the upperside being indis- 

 tinctly represented. 



Expanse of wings 2§ inches. 



Hab. North-east Borneo. 



This species is near to E. penanga, Westwood {mehida, 

 Hew.), but the male differs in having only three instead of 

 live blue spots on the anterior wings, and the female is 

 quite distinct from the female of that species. 



In the Hewitson Collection at the British Museum the 

 male of this species is placed with specimens of E. mehida^ 

 and the female is unnamed. 



